Tired of the constant bad news about climate change? Don’t want your flight banned? Do you think that a single person can do nothing anyway, so you can grill your steak without a twinge of conscience? You are not alone. In fact, you’re one of four “cliches” in our society that always argue alike: besides the “carefree,” there are also the “holistic” thinkers, the “tech geeks” and the so-called knowledgeable. This will be presented at the “Nature” exhibition. And we?” at the Stapferhaus in Lenzburg AG – and with a subtle sense of humor, it opens your eyes to how you think and how you act.
But only at the end. First of all, she discovers, wonders, and marvels at a series of eight rooms – it may sound like little for such a large subject, but it actually isn’t. Because artistic director Sibylle Lichtensteiger (53) and her team create a kind of magic trick where the interior of the exhibition is much larger than it seems from the outside: the large-scale course that raises countless questions about the relationship between man and man. nature and some also answered, stole your socks.
You learn a lot about extraneous sensations like feet or nose
Not just the proverb, but quite literally: at the beginning of the course, you take off your shoes and socks, disinfect your feet, and tour barefoot on ever-changing surfaces. For example, you are walking on sand or floor tiles made of fungal mycelium. You’d be surprised how little we use the perfect sense of touch in our feet – and what a waste it actually is. And of course the soil conditions are wisely chosen and refer to numerous issues related to our relationships with nature. For example, the quartz sand you walk through at the entrance evokes a holiday feeling, but it is actually a coveted raw material for the production of concrete – so coveted that in Asia, mafia groups are already fighting for this resource in conditions of war. Or that mushroom mycelium could be the most important sustainable building material of the future.
But of course there is much, much more to discover: how, for example, a fox experiences an urban environment, what it hears, what it smells and what it feels there. Along with an inspection and olfactory impressions on all fours. Or just a room devoted to our microbiome, the bacteria, viruses, fungi, and microorganisms that we carry with us all the time and cannot live without. Or what if landscapes or rivers—like humans—were given rights? Or, or, or.
“For us, the main task of exhibition design is to make complex subjects a sensory experience without political warning fingers,” says Sibylle Lichtensteiger. He accomplished that in this fascinating exhibition. Schedule enough time!
“Nature. And us?” From 30 October at the Stapferhaus in Lenzburg.
Entrance fees and opening hours: stapferhaus.ch