04-10 November 2024 | The Temple of Science - Window exhibition at Kunsthalle Giessen by Aisling O'Carroll
'The Temple of Science' is realized as a collaboration between Kunsthalle Giessen and the Panel on Planetary Thinking. The installation continues the INSIDEOUT exhibition series in the window of the Kunsthalle. The work showcases the results of Aisling O’Carroll’s fellowship within this year’s focus on ‘Planetary Times’ in the Planetary Scholars & Artists in Residence Program (2022-2025).
- https://www.uni-giessen.de/en/faculties/planetarythinking/mediacollection/collection/templeofscience
- 04-10 November 2024 | The Temple of Science - Window exhibition at Kunsthalle Giessen by Aisling O'Carroll
- 2024-11-04T18:00:00+01:00
- 2024-11-10T00:00:00+01:00
- 'The Temple of Science' is realized as a collaboration between Kunsthalle Giessen and the Panel on Planetary Thinking. The installation continues the INSIDEOUT exhibition series in the window of the Kunsthalle. The work showcases the results of Aisling O’Carroll’s fellowship within this year’s focus on ‘Planetary Times’ in the Planetary Scholars & Artists in Residence Program (2022-2025).
Nov 04, 2024 06:00 to Nov 10, 2024 12:00 (Europe/Berlin / UTC100)
The Hôtel des Neuchâtelois was an improvised mountain hut occupied by a pioneering group of glaciologists during their summer expeditions in 1840 and 1841. Part geology and part architecture, the Hôtel was constructed under the overhang of a huge block of micaceous schist found on the medial moraine of the Unteraar in the Bernese Alps. As an architectural space, the hut was lost to the action of the glacier in the winter of 1842. It has since been romanticized as the “Temple of Science” in Western scientific and Alpine narratives, venerating and bolstering the authority and intrepidity of the expeditioners in the landscape.
Drawing on evidence found in the field and in archives, this installation uses site and archival images and built elements to produce a geo-architectural reconstruction of the Hôtel. This reconstructed version aims to challenge whose and what knowledge is given voice and value in the Temple of Science. By presenting a more expansive history of the valley, including its geological and glaciological actors, this installation — an alternative “Temple of Science” — proposes a space where new understandings of planetary timescales may help to enable more inclusive relations with the land.
The detailed program can be found here.
The event is realized under consideration of JLU’s guidelines for more sustainable event management.