MAK_Georg Mayer

PLATFORM

Presentation

LeveL – THE FRAGILE BALANCE OF UTOPIA

MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst

29.9.–1.10.2017

In their installation LeveL – THE FRAGILE BALANCE OF UTOPIA, the designers of mischer’traxler studio (Katharina Mischer and Thomas Traxler) analyze the bipolarity of utopia as a complex construct of individual and social ideals: a fragile system as a balancing act that takes into account the needs of both individuals and crowds. For their large-scale installation LeveL, mischer’traxler studio make use of the metaphor of a mobile as a model for the utopia, that simultaneously functions as a chandelier.

Tue 6pm–10pm Free admission
Presentation until 1.10.