with Ana Alenso, Eren İleri, Dina Khouri, José Montealegre and Elisa Strinna

Many names have been given to the remotest place in the ocean: “South Pacific Ocean Uninhabited Area” (SPOUA) defines it as furthest away from inhabited land. “Spacecraft Cemetery” describes the region as the designated crashing site for space debris. “Point Nemo” (Nemo=Nobody) suggests a point in “no man*’s land” and “Pole of Inaccessibility” refers to a location that matches the geographical criteria for physical unreachability. These designations convey narratives that neither take non-human existences nor the destructive impact of human life on oceanic ecosystems into account. In this context “inaccessibility” implies a claim to potential (colonial) enclosure in the future.

The pacific Pole of Inaccessibility is the starting point for the exhibition, which explores the condition of and anthropocentric approach to supposedly inaccessible places in the ocean and beyond. Pole der Unzugänglichkeit (Poles of Inaccessibility) is the second part of the exhibition series Schwindel – conceptions of (extra)terrestrial worlds between reality and fiction. Curated by Johanna Janßen.

Aug 23, 23, 3–5 pm
Workshop in Simple Language Trances of Humankind with the F3_kollektiv

Sep 3, 23, 5–6 pm
Artist Talk  with Ana Alenso 

Sep 7, 23, 6–8 pm 
Workshop Haunted Waters with Nonhuman Nonsense

Jul 26, Aug 2+9+30, Sep 6+13, 23, 6–7 pm
Curator’s Tours Into the Underground with Johanna Janßen