Listen: Evolution is an ongoing co-creation between artist mp Warming and an international team of Evolutionary Biologists and other leading-edge thinkers who inform the artwork. The concept for the project springs from the architecture of the Reichstag Dome, designed by Norman Foster as a symbol for democracy. The project culminates with a proposed art installation atop Berlin's Reichstag*.
An exhibition comprised of a series of limited-edition graphic prints, incorporating science, is to accompany the installation. The exhibit will be held at a notable Berlin location where audience members can view the artworks while perusing an onsite library of team members' publications.
The Reichstag installation will feature a number white flags, each depicting a graphic of a team member's ear. The project relays an intentional nod to Berlin's history as a center for the Dada and Fluxus Art Movements. The absurdity of the ears in installation is meant to convey the joyful city Berlin has become. For the viewer, the flags may also represent the surrender of the ego to a state of authentic listening. As the symbol for military surrender, white flags also suggest surrender of armies as humankind's evolutionary path towards world peace.
The project reaches across disciplines of art, science, architecture and the humanities to revisit the spiral form of the Reichstag Dome as a metaphor for evolution, and in so doing, hopes to engage broad audiences in an exploration of our world's diversity and the importance of protecting it.
*Special thanks to Foster + Partners for the Reichstag rendering.
An exhibition comprised of a series of limited-edition graphic prints, incorporating science, is to accompany the installation. The exhibit will be held at a notable Berlin location where audience members can view the artworks while perusing an onsite library of team members' publications.
The Reichstag installation will feature a number white flags, each depicting a graphic of a team member's ear. The project relays an intentional nod to Berlin's history as a center for the Dada and Fluxus Art Movements. The absurdity of the ears in installation is meant to convey the joyful city Berlin has become. For the viewer, the flags may also represent the surrender of the ego to a state of authentic listening. As the symbol for military surrender, white flags also suggest surrender of armies as humankind's evolutionary path towards world peace.
The project reaches across disciplines of art, science, architecture and the humanities to revisit the spiral form of the Reichstag Dome as a metaphor for evolution, and in so doing, hopes to engage broad audiences in an exploration of our world's diversity and the importance of protecting it.
*Special thanks to Foster + Partners for the Reichstag rendering.
TEAM OF SCIENCE
Dr. Dieter Korn, Paleontologist & Curator of the Ammonite Collection, Naturkundemuseum Berlin and Scientist at the Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity. Dr Korn has published or coauthored over 100 papers since 1979, including the description of numerous new species of cephalopods. |
Architect + Landscape Urbanist Iñaki Echeverria, Founder & Director Iñaki Echeverria. Parque Ecologico Lago Texcoco, México 1,430,000,000 sqft remediation and reclamation project; Children´s Museum Papalote, Monterrey, México; Museum and IMAX theater in Parque Fundidora Monterrey Parque Bicentenario; Second prize National competition to transform the 5,500,000 sqft Oil Refinery into an Ecological Park. |
Dr. Professor Tamir Bar-On, Political Scientist at the Department of International Relations and Humanities at the Monterrey Institute of Technology. Leading Anglo-American expert on the European New Right and Fascism. Author of Where Have All The Fascists Gone?, The French New Right: Three More Interpretations (forthcoming) and numerous academic articles from International Politics to Patterns of Prejudice including "Fighting Violence: A Critique of the War On Terrorism". |
Dr. Professor Richard Prum of Yale University Prum Lab of Ornithology. Evolutionary ornithologist researching diverse topics, including avian phylogenetics, behavioral evolution, feather evolution and development, sexual selection and mate choice, sexual conflict, aesthetic evolution, avian color vision. Curator of Ornithology and Head Curator of Vertebrate Zoology in the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. Director of Franke Program in Science and the Humanities. Dr. Alex Jordan, Principal Investigator at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior. His research is taxonomically and methodologically broad, with projects examining the effect of social hierarchy on collective behavior, the flow of information through social groups, the sources of selection acting on behavioural traits, and the neurobiological basis for variation in social and reproductive behavior. His research specialties are fish, insects, and spiders in the lab and field sites from Australia, Africa, and Central America. He leads the Jordan Lab of divers worldwide, with a strong focus on research in Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania. |