TERRA DIASPORA – ACTIVE TERRAIN N°2 – Collapse is not a Destination, it is a process –

In the second year of TERRA DIASPORA, the central group exhibition Active Terrain N°2 brings together thirteen artistic positions in Göttingen’s Old Town Hall. The works on display, executed in various media such as sculpture, photography and drawing, all deal with the discrepancy between the ecological crisis of our planet and how people perceive it. In view of the magnitude and often long distance of human intervention and its consequences over a long period of time, this crisis is hardly taken seriously as an acute danger: the complexity of these processes undermines the evolutionary human response to danger, so that necessary countermeasures are repeatedly ‘postponed’ in the face of acute emergencies such as wars, economic crises, etc. As a result, the ecological crisis has become a reality. As a result, ecological collapse is already taking place without humanity being able to respond adequately. Or as Ugo Bardi, member of the Club of Rome, put it in 2022: ‘Collapse is not a destination, it is a process’.*

*Quote: Ugo Bardi in “Limits and Beyond: 50 years on from The Limits to Growth, what did we learn and what’s next?”, 2022

With: Julius von Bismarck, Julian Charrière, Marjolijn Dijkman, Raphaël Fischer-Dieskau, Andreas Greiner, Robert Gschwantner, Spiros Hadjidjanos, Kapwani Kiwanga, Almut Linde, Ulrike Mohr, Mazenett Quiroga, Marike Schuurman, Raul Walch.

Curated by Dr.Almut Huefler & Stephan Klee

Kunstverein Göttingen
Gotmarstraße 1
37073 Göttingen