On the Italian Day of Contemporary Art, MUSE invites you to get in touch with the installations resulting from its first creative Hackaton, realized as part of
Nxt, the MUSE training and transformation program for artists, designers and culture professionals that moves at the intersection of Science, Arts and Environmental Humanities through the projects We Are The Flood, conceived and curated by Stefano Cagol, and Like Life, conceived and curated by Mali Weil.
The hackathon was held on the eve of World Environment Day as an intensive meeting with 17 artists of 15 hours - from light to light, through the night - made of exchange and dialogue. From their concepts born in real time, five projects were chosen, three of which are available for free in the park of the MUSE.
The provocative work "Eco-nazism" by Edoardo Spata consists of a series of flags, which push us to reflect on the way we are addressing climate issues. «Can a battle coexist with a moral meaning so marked as the environmental one, the artist asks himself, in a cynical and violent environment like the current geopolitical one?»
"Trento no stop pollinators city" by Elena Grippo and Nikola Koruga is a cartographic intervention that reflects on the coexistence between man and pollinators in the urban context of Trento. The maps represent two alternatives: the first, Trento Real, presents the existing city, while the second, Trento Possible, is an ideal city for bees and several other species of pollinators. The overlap tells of a city where the prevalence of anthropic elements is not obvious, in favor of new possibilities of cohabitation.
"Among the words of silent living" by Ettore Morandi is a session that poses a change of posture, not only physical, but also mental, that invites us to be close to plants, to breathe with them, a subversive and delicate gesture, public and intimate, but above all necessary.
Within the spaces of the MUSE, paying the entrance ticket, you can also see the other two works produced within the Hackathon: "Eden" by Leonardo Panizza and Giulio Boccardi, video documentation of a radical 24-hour performance inside an artificial paradise, the museum’s tropical greenhouse, and "Machines of Loving Grace" by Angela Fusillo and Marco Gentilini, video in which each variation corresponds to a variation in the actual greenhouse data, reproducing the system of relationships between plants, animals, humans, technology and the environment.