Institute of Queer Ecology

As part of the Klima Biennale Wien, the KunstHausWien is showing the first solo exhibition of the Institute of Queer Ecology in Austria – I Wish We Had More Time

The site-specific room installation addresses the multifaceted dimensions of meaning associated with loss: ecological, communal and personal. It deals with the disturbed symbioses in nature resulting from shifting climate patterns. This crisis is destabilizing the sensitive interaction between species and creating imbalances in phenological phases. The installation also broaches the ruptures of queer history and storytelling traditions, caused by social crises like the AIDS epidemic, as well as the personal losses which occur when two people meet at the wrong time or the wrong place – missed encounters and a sense of the lovelorn.

The Institute of Queer Ecology is a constantly developing collaborative organism aiming to put peripheral solutions to ecological degradation at the centre of public awareness. The interdisciplinary projects are embedded in the theoretical framework of queer ecology, an adaptive practice that explores interconnectivity, intimacy and multispecies relationships. The collective queries destructive anthropocentric hierarchies and imagines a just, networked future, one in which human and non-human life forms, enjoying equal rights, can coexist.

Curators
Stephan Kuss & Veronika Hackl

As part of the Klima Biennale Wien, the KunstHausWien is showing the first solo exhibition of the Institute of Queer Ecology in Austria – I Wish We Had More Time