Artists Statement

Installation 2010

Since the beginning of the use of nuclear energy in Germany, two sites have become synonymous with the end of a technical-feasibility fantasy – the fast breeding reactor Kalkar and the waste repository Asse II. “Dream Water Wonderland” transposes the remains of atomic industry into a dream about half-life durations.

• Ute Hörner & Mathias Antlfinger (Hörner/Antlfinger) (DE), Academy of Media Arts Cologne  (KHM). As part of the dialogue between human and non-human existences in the “art system” and the “everything-else system,” since the 1990s Hörner/ Antlfinger address politically explosive topics and offer critical perspectives on the technologization of our world. Their installations, videos and sculptures deal with the relationship between humans, animals and machines and the utopian vision of fair terms of interaction between these parties. Following their exploration of the social constructs that dictate human-animal relationships, their current focus is on how these constructs can be changed. Two protagonists who advise them on this question are the grey parrots Clara and Karl with whom they have carried out the interspecies collaboration CMUK since 2014. h–a.org/en/biographies