Exhibition

27.9. - 8.10.2006, Sala Terrena, Juridische Fakultät Salzburg, Churfürstrasse 1
Monday - Friday 14:00 - 18:00

Program includes

27.9.2006, 19:00 - 21:00 Opening and artist talk with Peta Clancy, Erik Hable, Sylvia Kranawetvogl
6.10.2006, 18:00 - 20:00 "Synthesizing Sex: Science Fiction Fims Exploring Biotechnological Eutopias and Genetic Regression" with Didi Neidhart
7.10.2006, 18:00 - 20:00 "An introduction to Sala Terrena from an Art Historical Perspective" with Dr. Ingonda Hannesschläger
8.10.2006, 11:00 - 13:00 "Science Brunch" with Professor Robert Schwarzenbacher, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Salzburg

Our attitudes toward man's handling of the possibilities offered by biotechnology borders between fascination, shock and criticism. What affect do the insights offered by the biotechnological sciences, more specifically genetic technology and neurology, have on man's image of himself? No institution, no teaching, no ideology, no philosophy and no religion can point us the way forward to the future. Only we ourselves can decide whether there is any purpose in walking about as cyborgs. Art poses questions about technical possibilities, without being able to answer them. Art does not compete with the sciences. In the face of euphoria, science threatens to become a replacement for religion whereas art poses the question of our self-understanding: what wishes, pretensions, ideas do we have? What is it we want from life? What is happiness?

 

(Source, 24. 09.2006 http://www.kunst-als-wissenschaft.de/en/das_projekt/