EINSTELLUNGSRAUM e. V. Katsuya Murano: ...und das auch

computers; but the question arises if we as a species are not hopelessly overstrained in the face of the further restricted grasp of our senses and the captivation to a profane everyday occurrence. When we should envision of the dimension leaps that lie between the processes of the sub-atomic and the cosmic even radical phantasies and sophisticated metaphors are not suffice. On the contrary: the idea of time in daily life appear more backward than ever compared with the scientifically calculated time dimensions.³ The narrowness of the present range of human activities is assessable from the dealings of many communities with the consequences and waste of various technologies. In comparison with the access that various scientific disciplines have acquired the time horizon in practises of daily life narrows in a downright grotesque relation. The commitments that tie our actions with past and future are becoming more and more indefinite and abstract. In an especially blatant way can we not cope with the hundreds of thousands of years lasting responsibility for the consequences of our production of toxins. Especially corporate bosses and politicians delay the task of storing of atomic waste in order to now acknowledge their helplessness. In spite of water ingress after only a few years salt repositories - Attention! Who in spite of eating soup hasn't noticed yet: salt is water-solutable! - are still regarded as adequate to collect safely radio active material for a period of over 100,000s of years. Matched with the age of the earth this is a laughable time span, but already the half-life of radioactive waste exceeds beyond tenfold the continuity of each so far known culture. One does not know wether the stubbornness paired with short-sightedness and dumbness should be called hubris; because with the ancient greeks hubris understood a conscious provocation of the gods. In the profane sense however it means also arrogance or simply recklessness.

2. Eternities
For the people in the Middle Ages it was still comprehensible that their actions had long term consequences because through their idea of god they tried to have an understanding of eternity which they hoped to be part of after their death. With the awareness to have a future ahead that goes beyond an individual life they coupled their building projects to a continuity of generations thus they did not feel the necessity to complete longterm tasks right away. They were in a position, to hand over tasks from generation to generation. Thus the building of a cathedral up to it's completion exceeded the horizon of an individual life

Three levels of time can be distinguished: a creative one(a), a cultural historical one(b), and a geological one(c). a) Approaching by drawing leads to a visual gauging of an object and extends over a longer period like in the range of hours. The manuel deposition of watching goes beyond the instant automatic. The manuel deposition of watching goes beyond the instant automatic image capturing. In opposition to grappling by means of photographing here an object on-site is captured three-dimensionally and put down on paper, if necessary also from moving position. Not the intelligence sourced out into the machine is called for here but the individual competence is put into action directly. On the base of this groundwork the three-dimensional works of styrofoam and plaster of paris develop. b) The prolonged disputing with an historical object poses also the question about the construction time of towers. In that is the question about cultural duration; because when one comes from the assumption that large building projects took several generations in the past it has to arise how a society finds the strength for this continuity. It is also possible for a building project; to be resumed after an interruption when for example supplies ran out and the works succumbed to wars, plagues and crop failures. Such an endeavor of activities over generations does not only witness the perseverance of a society but the accomplishment of the large, often sacral building project also demonstrates the taking effect of cultural historical time dimensions into a community. By this the own existence is tied with eternity. For the very fact that because of not every participant gaining immortality individually everybody is able to relate oneself to eternity. c) Beyond religious claims and expectations for salvation the models of the four towers in the installation are associated with crystals by which that human acts are embedded chronologically with geology and by this with history of the earth. Crystals grow exceptionally slow and manifest the geological creative powers. They confront human accomplishments with the transhistorical dimension of time. 1. Human expertise on time in crisis Today scientists conduct time dimensions from nano seconds in atomic processes of disintegration to cosmologic ages, defined by various physical instruments and mainframe	computers; but the question arises if we as a species are not hopelessly overstrained in the face of the further restricted grasp of our senses and the captivation to a profane everyday occurrence. When we should envision of the dimension leaps that lie between the processes of the sub-atomic and the cosmic even radical phantasies and sophisticated metaphors are not suffice. On the contrary: the idea of time in daily life appear more backward than ever compared with the scientifically calculated time dimensions.³ The narrowness of the present range of human activities is assessable from the dealings of many communities with the consequences and waste of various technologies. In comparison with the access that various scientific disciplines have acquired the time horizon in practises of daily life narrows in a downright grotesque relation. The commitments that tie our actions with past and future are becoming more and more indefinite and abstract. In an especially blatant way can we not cope with the hundreds of thousands of years lasting responsibility for the consequences of our production of toxins. Especially corporate bosses and politicians delay the task of storing of atomic waste in order to now acknowledge their helplessness. In spite of water ingress after only a few years salt repositories - Attention! Who in spite of eating soup hasn't noticed yet: salt is water-solutable! - are still regarded as adequate to collect safely radio active material for a period of over 100,000s of years. Matched with the age of the earth this is a laughable time span, but already the half-life of radioactive waste exceeds beyond tenfold the continuity of each so far known culture. One does not know wether the stubbornness paired with short-sightedness and dumbness should be called hubris; because with the ancient greeks hubris understood a conscious provocation of the gods. In the profane sense however it means also arrogance or simply recklessness. 2. Eternities For the people in the Middle Ages it was still comprehensible that their actions had long term consequences because through their idea of god they tried to have an understanding of eternity which they hoped to be part of after their death. With the awareness to have a future ahead that goes beyond an individual life they coupled their building projects to a continuity of generations thus they did not feel the necessity to complete longterm tasks right away. They were in a position, to hand over tasks from generation to generation. Thus the building of a cathedral up to it's completion exceeded the horizon of an individual life
The 04th. exhibition in HYBRID EINSTELLUNGSRAUM e.V.
3) Günther Anders. characterized this inability as a humiliation for the people. He saw an expression of uncertainty caused by the 'Promethian shame' behind the tipping from fear of technics to its glorification. Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen (The Outdatedness of Human Beings), 2 volumes, Muenchen 1956	more pictures Vernissage
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