Atlas – Im Spiralnebel der Moderne [Atlas – In the Spiral Galaxy of the Modern Age]

Station 1: Slotmachine

DE 2019

Try your luck! History is in the making, categories are being coined. On entering this walk-through atlas of the modern age, visitors are invited to try their luck with a virtual slot machine. Each button you press offers a fresh chance to win. Images and Bilderfahrzeuge rotate – models and ruins, coins, t-shirts and stamps. Get three in a row and you are rewarded by a fanfare. The installation playfully applies the principle of Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas and those who participate will get to experience the marvels of the encyclopedia and cross-referencing: everything is interconnected – though the claims to comprehensiveness and universality once touted by the collections, libraries and encyclopedia of Classicism now fall victim to the whims and contingency of the modern age. And yet we can promise you this: in the end everything will make sense and be in its rightful place.

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