The ACTIVE TERRAINS exhibition series is inspired by the real changes taking place in many areas around the world. But what about digital, virtual or artificial worlds? How do they shape our idea of space and environment – and thus our experience of reality? In ‘Symbiocene’ – a neologism coined by the art duo Virginie Ittah and Kai Yoda – virtual and material space exist simultaneously and interlinked, forming a real symbiosis.
In summer 2025, artist Mélodie Mousset and the art duo Ittah Yoda will be showing an exhibition on the first floor of the Künstlerhaus Göttingen that is based on the definition of symbiosis: a multimedia terrain that surrounds visitors and appeals to many senses, including the sense of touch and smell. The intertwining installations range from the origins of cave painting to virtually generated landscapes.
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In the second year of TERRA DIASPORA, the central exhibition Active Terrain N°2 in Göttingen’s Old Town Hall brings together thirteen positions that deal with the discrepancy between the ecological crisis of our planet and how people perceive it. In view of the magnitude and often long distance of human intervention and its consequences over a long period of time, this crisis is hardly taken seriously as an acute danger: the complexity of these processes undermines the evolutionary human response to dangers, so that necessary countermeasures are repeatedly ‘postponed’ in the face of acute emergencies such as wars, economic crises, etc. As a result, the ecological crisis of our planet has become a reality. As a result, ecological collapse is already taking place without humanity being able to respond adequately.
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