This exhibition at Schloss Lind - das ANDERE heimatmuseum in Styria deals with the concept of "REWILDING." It is a collaboration of "Pushing the Boundaries" and the Viennese arts-science collective The ZoNE with essential support from the Salvatorhaus in Murau. The exhibition runs from May 10 to the fall of 2025.
"Rewilding is not about reverting to a past state of nature, but about regenerating, reconnecting, and reframing our relationship with the world. The crises of modernity stem from a shift in attitude—from participation with nature to possession and control—leading to alienation, disenchantment, and fragmentation. Rewilding is thus a philosophical and practical shift: a re-embedding of ourselves into the living web of nature, not as passive observers but as active participants and stewards. It is not abandonment, but cultivation—a kind of responsible, regenerative gardening. This reframing challenges the dominant narrative of ownership and control, inviting a more integrated, experiential, and relational way of being. Like a walk through a park or a garden of forking paths, THE ZoNE’s series of activations in Schloss Lind and its garden search for a shift in perspective that rewilding demands."
The exhibition includes a limited-edition art book on the topic of "REWILDING," which reflects on the impossibility of "going back to nature." Instead we must go forward towards a new balance with the planetary ecosystem and true participatory stewardship. We argue that this takes a shift in attitude, away from the view of the world as a machine.
"There goes predictability, certainty, control. There goes omniscience. The world is not a clockwork, not a simulation. It is not a machine. The world is not small and ultimately knowable."
The exhibition consists of several parts:
In the Great Gallery of the castle-museum, we show a map that reflects the structure of the art book (see above). Visitors are encouraged to navigate this map, and the hypothetical creatures that inhabit it, through a non-linear reading of the dictionary that is in the book.
In the Great Gallery of the castle-museum, we show a map that reflects the structure of the art book (see above). Visitors are encouraged to navigate this map, and the hypothetical creatures that inhabit it, through a non-linear reading of the dictionary that is in the book.
In the Natura/Lab/Oratory, situated in the castle-museum garden, we show an artificial dig site, by Bronwyn Lace, in which a triangular pile of bones is unearthed underneath a quote by indigenous thinker Tyson Yunkaporta. The quote reads:
"Most of us have been displaced from those cultures of origin, a global diaspora of refugees severed not only from land, but from the sheer genius that comes from belonging in symbiotic relation to."
On the other side of the stable, we show a painting by Marcus Neustetter that examines a number of key concepts underlying the machine view of the world from the vantage point of human origins.
"Most of us have been displaced from those cultures of origin, a global diaspora of refugees severed not only from land, but from the sheer genius that comes from belonging in symbiotic relation to."
On the other side of the stable, we show a painting by Marcus Neustetter that examines a number of key concepts underlying the machine view of the world from the vantage point of human origins.
Finally, we installed a little tool in the Immersive Observatory of the castle garden that lets the visitor reflect down on the map of the estate while looking into the sky. This reflects both the perspectival nature of our perception and knowledge, but also the strange loops at the heart of our lives and living organization.
Special Event, Jun 7, 2025: Playing the Caste - with Micca Manganye and the ZoNE
Micca's percussion performance was accompanied by Marcus' projections in the concert hall and the castle garden.
Micca's percussion performance was accompanied by Marcus' projections in the concert hall and the castle garden.
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