THE KRACK PROJECT by DI VOZZO S.A.S
The < Krack project > is a public art installation ( 220 s.m) which was conceived to compete with the Imperialist system on the production processes of realities.
I designed this project so as to mobilize the civil society around socio-environmental stakes and to denounce the political inertia on the concretization of a new global and sustainable ecological paradigm for human societies. Krack was also conceived as a promotional lever for the Environmental Rights Defense, and was the first public art installation that I drew for the keynesian < critical company > DI VOZZO S.A.S that I created in 2007, after a 2 years period as a street fundraiser for the ngo Greenpeace.
On a 10 years period between 1999 and 2010, the industrial french south-western forestry had been impacted by 2 major storms (Lothar and Klaus) and was plunged into a major crisis due to the deterioration of its stocks. The trees were like torn and scattered on the ground, the landscape was completely devastated, and small forest owners ended up ruined. The global warming had knocked the cultivated forests that were supposed to counter the deforestation of primary forests. I had to find a way to support this sector, even to temporarily reactivate the baudrillardian principle of escalation.
The "Krack project" was selected 3 times through several calls for proposals but was never built completly neither visited by the public. It remains unrealised till now, despite the support of the World Wide Foundation and despite the interest of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), between others. The first steps of the engineering work had been commissioned at the ENSAM (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Métiers - Bordeaux).
The Krack project is composed of 116 tons of pine tree palets and a 7 tons exotic wood trunk. The inner 96 s.m surface of the installation is equivalent to the surfaces of ancient forest parcels erased by forestry companies in 0,06 seconds. Here, the profusion of pine tree palets made from cultivated forests protects the rare and fragile biodiversity of ancient forests. The public is invited to observe this piece of art from a panoramical point of view (more or less 3m high) as well as to walk through the inner perimeter and to live it physically so as to increase its perception of reality : Global deforestation is very fast and walking through this area of 96 square meters in 0.06 seconds is perceived by individuals as a goal impossible to acheive.
Through this very simple experience, individuals are facing an aporia. In the (hypermodern) anxiogenic context of the installation, the relationships between space and time are difficult to understand. They pass us literally. The individual feels like if he were retarded and slow whereas the political speeches on sustainable development that he can hear seem smart and fast. In this occasion, the public can understand that it is overtaken by the realities of the territorial policies. The public is not an actor of history anymore. it is bathed in an ether of planned obsolescence, condemned to watch the politics generate new realities.
The krack experience ended with the production of the video art design HOLBACH which was much more fast and appropriate to compete with the politics. Holbach includes images captured a few days after Klaus fought its way through the aquitanian forest.
Romain di Vozzo
www.romaindivozzo.wordpress.com
THE KRACK PROJECT by DI VOZZO S.A.S
The < Krack project > is a public art installation ( 220 s.m) which was conceived to compete with the Imperialist system on the production processes of realities.
I designed this project so as to mobilize the civil society around socio-environmental stakes and to denounce the political inertia on the concretization of a new global and sustainable ecological paradigm for human societies. Krack was also conceived as a promotional lever for the Environmental Rights Defense, and was the first public art installation that I drew for the keynesian < critical company > DI VOZZO S.A.S that I created in 2007, after a 2 years period as a street fundraiser for the ngo Greenpeace.
On a 10 years period between 1999 and 2010, the industrial french south-western forestry had been impacted by 2 major storms (Lothar and Klaus) and was plunged into a major crisis due to the deterioration of its stocks. The trees were like torn and scattered on the ground, the landscape was completely devastated, and small forest owners ended up ruined. The global warming had knocked the cultivated forests that were supposed to counter the deforestation of primary forests. I had to find a way to support this sector, even to temporarily reactivate the baudrillardian principle of escalation.
The "Krack project" was selected 3 times through several calls for proposals but was never built completly neither visited by the public. It remains unrealised till now, despite the support of the World Wide Foundation and despite the interest of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), between others. The first steps of the engineering work had been commissioned at the ENSAM (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Métiers - Bordeaux).
The Krack project is composed of 116 tons of pine tree palets and a 7 tons exotic wood trunk. The inner 96 s.m surface of the installation is equivalent to the surfaces of ancient forest parcels erased by forestry companies in 0,06 seconds. Here, the profusion of pine tree palets made from cultivated forests protects the rare and fragile biodiversity of ancient forests. The public is invited to observe this piece of art from a panoramical point of view (more or less 3m high) as well as to walk through the inner perimeter and to live it physically so as to increase its perception of reality : Global deforestation is very fast and walking through this area of 96 square meters in 0.06 seconds is perceived by individuals as a goal impossible to acheive.
Through this very simple experience, individuals are facing an aporia. In the (hypermodern) anxiogenic context of the installation, the relationships between space and time are difficult to understand. They pass us literally. The individual feels like if he were retarded and slow whereas the political speeches on sustainable development that he can hear seem smart and fast. In this occasion, the public can understand that it is overtaken by the realities of the territorial policies. The public is not an actor of history anymore. it is bathed in an ether of planned obsolescence, condemned to watch the politics generate new realities.
The krack experience ended with the production of the video art design HOLBACH which was much more fast and appropriate to compete with the politics. Holbach includes images captured a few days after Klaus fought its way through the aquitanian forest.
Romain di Vozzo
www.romaindivozzo.wordpress.com