Martina Menegon

when you are close to me I shiver

A cooperation between the MAK and the University of Applied Arts Vienna

20.10.2020—8.11.2020

Creative Climate Care Gallery

In the fourth pop-up exhibition of the series CREATIVE CLIMATE CARE in cooperation with the University of Applied Arts Vienna, artist Martina Menegon presents a an algorithmically controlled live simulation, a real-time generated virtual reality, in a spatial installation.

Titled when you are close to me I shiver, the video takes place in a dystopian version of the future in which humans, out of desperation, gather in masses on the last remaining piece of land. As every square inch is occupied, some try to find space away from the crowds, up on the cliffs, where hundreds of humans fall from heights they should never have scaled.

The apocalyptic images and experiences confront us with a seemingly surreal scene that is all too real—a reflection of the current culture of distance and a reminder of the limited capacity of our living habitat. The work thus responds to both ecological and socio-cultural impacts in the context of the current climate and health crisis.

Martina Menegon completed her graduate degree in “Media Art: Transmedia Art,” headed by Prof. Brigitte Kowanz, in 2015. The artist works with Interactive and Mixed Reality Art to explore the contemporary self and its synthetic corporeality. She teaches at the Transmedia Art Department of the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and at the IUAV University of Venice (MA Digital Exhibit, BA Multimedia Arts).

CREATIVE CLIMATE CARE

A cooperation between the MAK and the University of Applied Arts Vienna