HYBRIDS | 2024 | ITA Rome
In one of the Platonic dialogues, Socrates sits outside the city and speaks to his students, saying that what the trees know no longer has any meaning for us.
This is one of the points that the German biologist and philosopher Andreas Weber emphasises as the moment in which we depart from a world view in that everything else is the same as us. The decision was made to rely on ratio leading us to the bifurcation of life as entity into terms of culture and nature.
Considered a typical component of Roman culture, traces of their water supply with its aqueducts are still to be found in the former Roman Empire. They carried water up to 100 kilometres, mostly underground, but sometimes also over bridges to larger cities in the Roman Empire. Rome alone was supplied by eleven aqueducts. In many cities, the water was also disposed of via a sewerage system. Like the Anio Novus, the Aqua Claudia was begun under Emperor Caligula in 38 AD and completed under Emperor Claudius in 52 AD.
2000 years later, remains of the aqueducts can still be found. Starting from the Porta Maggiore in the centre of Rome, the Aqua Claudia leads about 69 kilometres into the suburban landscapes. The work examines its transitions in space as well as transitions in time. The ruins form the thresholds from grown to built environment. Their structure is of a different nature than the vegetation and simultaneously different from our current technical achievements. The aqueducts are situated in the in-between. Contemporary vehicles are staged in a different way, forming a network of movement on land and in the air by counteracting the lines of the aqueducts.
Various formal and informal interventions can be found along the arches, which tell of the overwritten ruins occupied by diverse actors reaching from human forms to vegetation. Different plants trees and branches fuse into the earthy tones of these roman relics returning them to the earth. Hybrids are being born by dying.
This is one of the points that the German biologist and philosopher Andreas Weber emphasises as the moment in which we depart from a world view in that everything else is the same as us. The decision was made to rely on ratio leading us to the bifurcation of life as entity into terms of culture and nature.
Considered a typical component of Roman culture, traces of their water supply with its aqueducts are still to be found in the former Roman Empire. They carried water up to 100 kilometres, mostly underground, but sometimes also over bridges to larger cities in the Roman Empire. Rome alone was supplied by eleven aqueducts. In many cities, the water was also disposed of via a sewerage system. Like the Anio Novus, the Aqua Claudia was begun under Emperor Caligula in 38 AD and completed under Emperor Claudius in 52 AD.
2000 years later, remains of the aqueducts can still be found. Starting from the Porta Maggiore in the centre of Rome, the Aqua Claudia leads about 69 kilometres into the suburban landscapes. The work examines its transitions in space as well as transitions in time. The ruins form the thresholds from grown to built environment. Their structure is of a different nature than the vegetation and simultaneously different from our current technical achievements. The aqueducts are situated in the in-between. Contemporary vehicles are staged in a different way, forming a network of movement on land and in the air by counteracting the lines of the aqueducts.
Various formal and informal interventions can be found along the arches, which tell of the overwritten ruins occupied by diverse actors reaching from human forms to vegetation. Different plants trees and branches fuse into the earthy tones of these roman relics returning them to the earth. Hybrids are being born by dying.
