Future on Trial

The engagement with climate justice reveals a complex field of perspectives across multiple temporalities, geographies, and forms of knowledge. In this context, environmental destruction is entangled with economic interests, the uneven distribution of risks and responsibilities, colonial continuities, imperialist power relations, and geological deep time.

The exhibition Future on Trial. Between Unruly Evidence and Unfinished Climate Justice moves between two conceptions of justice. One that is produced and negotiated in courtrooms through scientific and legal evidence, data, and visual investigations, and another that understands justice as an unfinished, collective process, grounded in Indigenous knowledge, queer ecology, multispecies perspectives, and activism.

Through a dialogue between artistic practices and scientific experts in the field of climate litigation, the exhibition opens up a space between evidence and uncertainty, accusation and repair, institutional accountability and collective imagination.

With contributions by:

adO/Aptive, Beatrice Tulagan, Eline Benjaminsen, Elias Kimaiyo, Forensic Architecture, Jonas Staal, Paolo Cirio, Prin Rodriguez, Radha D’Souza, Valentino Skarwan

Curators: Adriano Vinca, Camille Belmin, Elisabeth Falkensteiner

Expert and scientific support: Inga Menke, Joy Reyes, Krishna Ariola, Michaela Krömer, Nicholas Petkov

Opening program:

Welcome

by Gerhild Steinbuch (Executive Board AIL) and the curators

Live Set by Rudi Gier

In Rudi Gier's soundscapes, sonic dimensions of our environment form fleeting relationships that resist any categorization. Tactile impulses, geophonic shifts, and synthetic textures combine into a fabric in which organic forms break apart and continually reassemble in new ways. Between field recordings and electronically generated sounds unfolds a meandering process of uncovering and layering.

Rudi Gier is a project by sound artist Evamaria Müller. Müller's installations, soundscapes and performances continually explore new compositional approaches in order to examine the intricate texture of our environment and our relationship to it through field recordings, kinetic sound sculptures and sound experiments. 

DJ Set by Oko Oko

Oko Oko is the DJ alias of cultural worker, curator, and music enthusiast Samo Zeichen. Oko Oko’s sets navigate between experimental sounds and dancefloor-oriented aesthetics. The selection takes detours via ambient, leftfield, and outsider approaches: rhythmic noise and low-fi grooves.

Samo lives and works between Dunaj (Vienna) and Koroška (Carinthia) and is a founding member of Bestand, a Viennese cultural initiative focusing on sound art, events and community building.