Hyper – comedy

2015
Leipzig, Germany
Plastic film, wood. Neodym Magnets

Today, physics and technology develop at a dizzying pace. So fast, they influence other disciplines like philosophy, religion, art, and poetry. Today, to know how things work is easier than ever. But is it that easy to understand this?

How do the inventions work that we already accept and use? Espionage in the Internet that we use every day, or automotion systems, whose inventors hundreds of years ago never thought about climate change. Based on the questions of space-time deformation, hyperspace and properties of the Moebius strip, this work speaks of the urgency to understand things.

You are in front of a physics experiment about space-time –it’s not a joke–, a mathematical toy, a short inter-dimensional puppet show.

Planiland is a country in a two-dimensional space-time, inhabited by two-dimensional beings, who move, feel and live in these two dimensions.

Quantum physics hobbyists, spiritual gurus of lifestyle in the universe and its dimensions, unscrupulous techno utopians: while people debate deeper in totally vague information, the scientists of Planiland created a new transport system, which with the help of the third dimension can be faster than ever. How? Well, simply by bending their own two-dimensional space-time to the third dimension in a form of what we call a Moebius strip. Of course, the Planilanders will never feel this third dimension but it fits all the equations incredibly well and allows them to travel faster. Proud of their scientists, the Planilanders get on board.

Instructions:

Help one of the Planilanders to travel along the Moebius strip, until she meets again with her partner. What happens?

Terrified, they find out that their internal organs are the other way round. What is more: left-handed are right-handed. Funny, don’t you think? Well, not that much: Many nutrients, biologic processes and medications are based on asymmetrical molecules. After the trip, medications will not work anymore. The Planilanders will probably suffer illnesses like scurvy, lack of vitamin C (which is an asymmetrical molecule), and finally die from foodborne diseases.

This is about the responsability of knowing the tecnology that we accept to use and it consequences, risking the enviroment we are part of.

I developed this work in 2015 for the exhibition “Reisen” (“Travelling”), organised by GG3 Arts and Other Sustainabilities, 1st January 2016 – 15th March 2016. It was also part of the exhibition Out of CO₂ntrol, in Leipzig, April 2016.