Installation Views: Kunststiftung DZ Bank, Frankfurt 11.2024
photos: Norbert Miguletz

DIY Solar Panel From Broken Cells (left), broken solar cells, wood, 75 x 50 x 2.5 cm
Lithobid® (right), pharma-branded office notepad (with handwritten list of prepper websites incl. link to tutorial on diy solar panels from broken scrap solar cells), ink, 15 x 10.5 cm
Lithobid® is a lithium-carbonate based medication, pharmaceutical companies routinely gift such branded office supplies to doctors, pharmacies etc. On the notepad is a handwritten link to making a solar panel from broken solar cells and a list of prepper websites (crossed out). The list is inspired by a historian of fascism who recently remarked that even those who don't believe in climate change are worried about climate change. Preppers (and many others) are convinced that disaster will strike soon, but paradoxically deny climate change, instead preferring to go down a rabbit hole of bizarre and arcane conspiracy theories in a futile attempt to manage extreme anxiety by doubling down on denial, disavowal and repression.

clockwise:
Hurricane Maria aerial view of solar wind farm, archival inkjet print on alu-dibond, broken iPhone frames, keyboard keys, 32.5 x 40 cm
Solar Surveillance Ad archival inkjet print on alu-dibond, keyboard key, 24 x 24 cm
Fine pill box, "END" key from vintage Italian keyboard, 11 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm

Limits To Growth cardboard on alu-dibond, keyboard keys, 89x 40cm (up close the keys spell LIMITS, after the 1972 publication by the Club of Rome)

Climate Change War Game clipboard, computer stylus, office paper, 23 x 33 cm
Found image of a poster for a climate change war game and conference hosted by the US Department of Defense at Pearl Harbor in 2022. Unlike most of other parts of government that have long denied the reality of climate change or simply ignored it, the military has long taken the threat of climate change seriously, as a potential security threat.

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