12.06.2024 – 21.06.2024
For ten days, Rainer Prohaska, artist and founder of Futurama Lab, will be present with his team and with the involvement of visitors with a sculpture performance on the MuseumsQuartier site. Several hundred pieces of standardized VT20 formwork beams from the construction industry will be repeatedly rearranged, stacked, layered, assembled and dismantled by the participants for the duration of the action. The sculptural arrangement is in constant flux. The yellow wooden elements each have a length of 245 cm and are moved without the aid of electrical devices. Carrying, lifting, positioning and securing are carried out as collaborative activities and give rise to various sculptural figures. What is essential in this artistic action is not a definitive form, but the experiment, the working process and co-operation.
For ten days, Rainer Prohaska, artist and founder of Futurama Lab, will be present with his team and with the involvement of visitors with a sculpture performance on the MuseumsQuartier site. Several hundred pieces of standardized VT20 formwork beams from the construction industry will be repeatedly rearranged, stacked, layered, assembled and dismantled by the participants for the duration of the action. The sculptural arrangement is in constant flux. The yellow wooden elements each have a length of 245 cm and are moved without the aid of electrical devices. Carrying, lifting, positioning and securing are carried out as collaborative activities and give rise to various sculptural figures. What is essential in this artistic action is not a definitive form, but the experiment, the working process and co-operation.
Sustainable practice plays a central role in this project, both on the content level of the artwork and in its production. In order to avoid the consumption and subsequent recycling or disposal of materials for the work, all components come from a material pool, which will be returned to it after the project.
Futurama Lab / Rainer Prohaska: The Aesthetic of Labour
12.06.2024 – 21.06.2024
Museumquartier
Museumsplatz 1
1070 Vienna
https://www.mqw.at
