Post-Apocalypsis Exhibition of Countries and Regions

At the same time, apocalypse was a herald of the changes arriving in Western culture, including that of transcending the classical theatrical situation of reproducing and re-playing existing events and texts, and freeing up a deeper performative potential. The Post-Apocalypsis installation projects a contemporary vision of a post-anthropocentric world: a networked and global place. Viewers enter directly into a condensed space of a weather data stream from different places of energy-related threats and disasters on Earth (including Chernobyl, Los Alamos, and Fukushima). The constantly updated data is processed artistcally through sonification – in this way, the installation is filled with a changing audiosphere, active towards the human presences. Energetic communicational switches can also be experienced within the framework of a surprising, designed interaction with technologically transformed elements of nature. Any previous romantic visions of nature, presented as a landscape and background for human events, once so crucial for the development of theatre stage design, are radically revised. A new understanding of technology reveals itself through this interaction. Commonly defined as existing in opposition to nature, technology becomes part of nature in the installation, and creates together with nature a hybrid communication ecosystem. In Post-Apocalypsis, we face a new definition of the human being. Humans are primarily treated as an active part of the earthly weather system. In the installation this system is designed as an experience of a dynamic state of the atmosphere: a combination of not only natural phenomena, but also simultaneously of social, political and economic unrest. Nowadays, the performance of life itself takes place in technologically mediated global systems, combining human and the non-human in apocalyptic situations: permanent premonitions of contemporary life.