Survival Kit for the Anthropocene – Trailer is designed as an apocalypse survival kit. As a hybrid between a beehive and a Slovenian farm chest, it formally connects contemporary art with folklore.
The mobile kit is basically a water collector with impregnated pig bladders in which water flows through the filters in a bamboo tube. A wooden pitchfork with a removable wooden net is attached at the top, serving as a shade or a fish net, a pitchfork or a crossbow.
The project is a paraphrase for disappearing cultures and local economies that dissolve in the pool of modern capitalism, and a critique of ecology as an ideology that “solves” climate change within global neoliberal frameworks of the existing capitalist paradigms.
Project Credits:
- Concept: Maja Smrekar.
- Architecture and design concept: Andrej Strehovec, u.d.i.a.
- Photos: Borut Peterlin
- Production: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2015 (SI)
- Artistic director: Janez Janša
- Executive producer: Marcela Okretič.
- Supported by: the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana.
Biography:
Maja Smrekar’s work has been accepted in the international art and science milieu. Through her practice, Smrekar has contributed to theoretical knowledge in academia, and has participated in cross-conceptual projects, such as installations, performances and lectures. In 2017 she won the Prix Ars Electronica – Golden Nica Award in Hybrid Art. https://www.majasmrekar.org/
