Flood is a dynamic projection mapping on the Johann Nestroy
school building in Bad Ischl, which the media artists Ruth Schnell and Martin Kusch have adapted for the opening of Salzkammergut
2024. The façade of the building will become part of a spectacular animation, the visual basis of which is the text of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted in 1948.
This United Nations
Charter of Human Rights comprises 30 articles, and further agreements and protocols have been added to form the International
Bill of Rights.
The effects of climate change and environmental degradation are forcing people around the
world, especially from the Global South, into increasingly precarious living conditions. The ecological challenges of the
present are complex. They also have social and therefore human rights components - for example, the right to access to clean
water was recognized as a human right by the UN General Assembly in 2010.
In Flood, texts and images intertwined:
moving images of landscapes, of water, but also of the consequences of the overexploitation of the earth and its climate,
emerge from the letters and words that form both the valid version of human rights and their most virulent extensions with
regards to climate change.
Striking terms that make the current state of the world tangible are also modeled
from the letters of the International Bill of Rights as well as from light and shadow.
The sound for Flood
has a spatially expanding effect: the sound is a specially produced composition of text and sound on the subject matter as
well as atmospheres from nature and technology.
Concept, idea, realization: Ruth Schnell and Martin
Kusch (kondition pluriel)
Programming: Johannes Hucek
3D modeling / Animation: Malte Niedringhaus
Sound: Alexandre
St-Onge
AI-Voices: Marie-Claude Poulin
Image research: Thomas Hochwallner
First performance: "Lichtstadt
Feldkirch" 2023
Flood was produced with the support of the fulldomeXR Lab, University of Applied Arts
Vienna.
https://www.salzkammergut-2024.at/en/projekte/flood-2024-2/https://konditionpluriel.org/en/artworks/flood/https://ruthschnell.org/en/works/flood/
