On Tuesday this week, the
Goethe-Institut in Johannesburg hosted a late morning (early lunch) hour long Walkabout exhibition presented by artist Hans Bernhard from the art duo Ubermorgen.com.
The exhibition titled “Kraft- Let’s Go!”, a part of the Ubermorgen.com’s “Kraft Series" featured themes on energy sources, fracking in the Karoo, Microexpressions, astronomy and gif-animation.
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Exploring the microexpressions of the landscape
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Highly pixelated gifs of members of the Shell Corporation Board
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| Highly pixelated Telescope- Sutherland Observatory, Karoo |
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Old school benches with reports
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The exhibition also included reports by Shell Exploration Company B.V. such as the Environmental Management report of the South Western Karoo Basin Gas Exploration Application. One could spend time pouring over the material to understand the findings and the conclusion that was drawn up from the research done.
Summing up the exhibition in the words of Hans Bernhard "But the Karoo is not what it used to be, it has already been fucked up over and over over the last centuries, it is dead by now. But there is gas for 30 years! So let's use it to boost South Africas economy for a while, it can really not get any worse! The devil-may-care, but we don't. Stop being stupid & Let's go!".
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