Animals, humans, machines, plants, fungi and bacteria share a common world. What does a daisy feel when it is picked? How do fungi network in analog and digital interaction communities? How do animals and humans meet in computer games? How will future generations view our interaction with other species? The exhibition “Goodbye Cruel World, It's Over” uses installation, sculpture, film, photography, virtual reality and painting to explore both the connections and conflicts that these relationships entail. The artistic works interweave narratives of human and non-human actors, whose perspectives are explicitly included. In order to be as close to them as possible, the privileged position of the human subject is deliberately undermined. In times of ecological crises, the artistic positions question anthropocentric perspectives and thus broaden the view for very different readings of the environment.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a supporting program of presentations, performances, workshops and screenings in which the idea of a world that is habitable for all is understood as a resistant practice. What could such a world look like and what are the conditions for an exchange between species?