Unstable Subsoil - exhibition at Gallery VI PER
Sesuvy, lives and perspectives
We cordially invite you to the opening of the exhibition "Unstable Foundations: Landslides, Lives, and Perspectives," prepared by a team consisting of Bob Kuřík, Vojtěch Pecka, Pavel Sterec, Jan Klimeš, and Jiří Suchánek.
“Lands do not shoot,” said E. M. Remarque. And he was not entirely right. Their often unstable foundations have the power to interfere with various forms of human, but also non-human life, cutting across, redirecting, or enabling new paths. Landslides make visible the vitality, historicity, and perpetual mobility of the Earth's surface and the events beneath it, which often remain imperceptible to the human eye. Through the ordinariness, persistence, and often fatality with which they enter people's worlds, landslides have been and are framed by human beings according to contemporary and local religious, economic, environmental, or political contexts, according to which they are perceived and culturally interpreted: as challenges, givens, messages, problems, risks, punishments, trials, components of stories, etc.
The exhibition "Unstable Foundations" focuses on landslides of soil and rock as unique processes and spaces of encounters between different times and scales of the Earth and human beings. It allows a glimpse into four contours of social and natural life of the landslide, which make up the individual parts of the exhibition. The section "Modern Knowledge" captures the anatomy of a landslide through the lens of geology, as well as revealing moments from the history of the development of this scientific discipline. The real estate agency "Realita" in its section of the exhibition offers, rather than plots or properties, a fundamental reorientation of the perspective and experience of a person in a world that is essential for coexisting with landslides if one wishes to minimize damage. The section "Restlessness" presents the landslide as a rebellious element, whose unstable foundations have the power to destabilize the scientific, administrative, or anthropocentric certainties of modern humans and their world. Last but not least, the section "Life in the Cracks of the Earth" presents the contours of the life of the landslide, exemplified by the village of Maršov in the Uherský Brod region.
The exhibition "Unstable Foundations: Landslides, Lives, and Perspectives" is a result of the research program "Natural Hazards Strategy AV21" and its topic "Care for the Landscape in the Prevention of Dangerous Natural Phenomena: Historical, Legal, and Social Dimensions," led by JUDr. Hana Müllerová, Ph.D.
“Lands do not shoot,” said E. M. Remarque. And he was not entirely right. Their often unstable foundations have the power to interfere with various forms of human, but also non-human life, cutting across, redirecting, or enabling new paths. Landslides make visible the vitality, historicity, and perpetual mobility of the Earth's surface and the events beneath it, which often remain imperceptible to the human eye. Through the ordinariness, persistence, and often fatality with which they enter people's worlds, landslides have been and are framed by human beings according to contemporary and local religious, economic, environmental, or political contexts, according to which they are perceived and culturally interpreted: as challenges, givens, messages, problems, risks, punishments, trials, components of stories, etc.
The exhibition "Unstable Foundations" focuses on landslides of soil and rock as unique processes and spaces of encounters between different times and scales of the Earth and human beings. It allows a glimpse into four contours of social and natural life of the landslide, which make up the individual parts of the exhibition. The section "Modern Knowledge" captures the anatomy of a landslide through the lens of geology, as well as revealing moments from the history of the development of this scientific discipline. The real estate agency "Realita" in its section of the exhibition offers, rather than plots or properties, a fundamental reorientation of the perspective and experience of a person in a world that is essential for coexisting with landslides if one wishes to minimize damage. The section "Restlessness" presents the landslide as a rebellious element, whose unstable foundations have the power to destabilize the scientific, administrative, or anthropocentric certainties of modern humans and their world. Last but not least, the section "Life in the Cracks of the Earth" presents the contours of the life of the landslide, exemplified by the village of Maršov in the Uherský Brod region.
The exhibition "Unstable Foundations: Landslides, Lives, and Perspectives" is a result of the research program "Natural Hazards Strategy AV21" and its topic "Care for the Landscape in the Prevention of Dangerous Natural Phenomena: Historical, Legal, and Social Dimensions," led by JUDr. Hana Müllerová, Ph.D.
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