Exhibition in Edith Russ Site for Media Art
/ 29 November 2008 – 11 January 2009 /
Edith Russ Haus Programm

In the newly developed multimedia installation Post Global Warming Survival Kit by the Bulgarian artist Petko Dourmana, the visitor uses the workplace of a person who guards the strip between the sea and the land in a fictional post-apocalyptic landscape.

Brought about by dubious political groupings or governments as a solution to the problem of global warming, a scenario similar to the “nuclear winter” dominates in which the surface of the earth is completely covered with ash.

Against this backdrop, Dourmana wants to alter the viewers’ visual experiences. He makes use of digital cameras to expand the spectrum of sight by including infrared light. He thus provides the viewer with the opportunity to experience other visual worlds or parts of our reality which would remain invisible without technical aids. Without technology, we would be blind in an ash-covered world.

Dourmana ironically perceives the “nuclear winter” as the only concept which man has come up with to prevent global warming: a dystopic look at politics and our future.