在维也纳应用艺术博物馆（MAK）的委托下，Superflux设计工作室为2021年维也纳变革双年展创作了大型装置“呼唤希望”，邀请人们重新思考和评价自身在自然界中的地位，同时回应了本次双年展的主题“爱地球：数字时代的气候关怀”。

This spring, speculative design studio Superflux invited humanity to reassess its place in the natural world, emerging from the grid-like ashes of fire-blackened trees into resurgent greenery – and a glistening pool with a surprise below the surface. Invocation for Hope was commissioned by the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) for the Vienna Biennale for Change 2021 in response to the event’s theme ‘Planet Love: Climate Care in the Digital Age.’

▼项目概览，preview (render) © Superflux

“呼唤希望”是一个沉浸式的装置，它审视了整个自然界复杂的相互关系，并为不限于人类范畴的未来提出了一种可能性——地球是一个后人类中心主义（post-anthropocentric）的星球，而人类只是多元且动态的生态系统中的一部分。

Invocation for Hope is a vast, immersive installation that examines the complex interconnected relationships throughout the natural world, and which raises the possibility of a more-than-human future–a post-anthropocentric planet in which humanity is just one part of a dynamic and multifaceted ecosystem.

▼装置在维也纳应用艺术博物馆现场，Invocation for Hope installation at Museum for Applied Art © Photo courtesy MAK, by Stefan Lux

穿过由烧焦的松树构成的黑色森林，观众将在场地的中央发现另 一个被复活的、正在生长的森林，人类与各类生物在这里共同生存。森林中设有一个圆形的淡水池，当你在池边望向水面时，你会发现它倒映出的并不是你自己，而是属于另外一种生物的脸——可能是一匹狼、一只猞猁或者一头野牛。

After traveling through a grid-like forest of burnt and blackened pines – the unexpectedly graceful skeletons of a former time – you find, at its heart, a resurgent living forest, where multiple species living in harmony with humanity offer a promise of alternative life. In this cradle of biodiversity, you come to a freshwater pool, which reflects, not your own face, but another creature – a wolf, a lynx, a bison – coming to the water to drink.

▼淡水池，the freshwater pool © Photo courtesy MAK, by Stefan Lux

伴随着装置的背景音乐由音乐家Cosmo Sheldrake创作，它引导着观众逐次踏上这场个人的旅程：从气候危机发生过后的残迹中，我们将发现一种复苏的可能性，并且与自然建立更深的联系。

Accompanied by a soundscape created by visionary musician Cosmo Sheldrake, the installation leads viewers one by one on a personal journey from the ravages of climate crisis to the possibility of renewal and a deeper connection with nature.

▼森林路径，forest path © Photo courtesy MAK, by Stefan Lux

“呼唤希望”装置需要将400多棵树安装在MAK的展览现场。在与奥地利Neunkirchen地区林业部门和消防部门的合作下，Superflux得以从附近区域抢救出一批被野火烧毁的树木，并将其运送至展场。

The creation of Invocation for Hope has required the sourcing and installation of more than 400 trees to the MAK. In collaboration with the forestry and fire departments of Austria’s Neunkirchen region, Superflux were able to salvage and transport trees that had been burned in a recent wildfire.

▼森林调研，Forest Research © Superflux

▼设计过程：模型，design process – model © Superflux

这些树木被布置在一个对称的网格中，呈现出一种被强行赋予的严格秩序，而当观众穿过它们来到位于中心的绿洲时，这种秩序则会转变为截然不同的、丰富而生机勃勃的自然景观。中央水池被20-30棵不同类型的树木所环绕，包括橡树、角树、苹果树、银桦以及生长着苔藓、草、地衣和灌木的小丘，所有这些物种将在装置中共同生长，并依靠定期的灌溉、生长灯和天窗带来的自然光来获得能量。

The trees are arranged in a symmetric grid so, as the viewer passes through them to the living oasis at the centre of the installation, they move from an imposed, rigid order to the organic exuberance of nature. The pool at the centre is surrounded by a cluster of 20–30 different living trees, including oak, hornbeam, apple, silver birch, and mounds of biodiversity where mosses, grasses, lichens and shrubs will grow symbiotically together over the course of the installation. These living ecologies nourished by regular watering, grow lamps and natural light from the large skylight on the museum ceiling.

▼中央水池被20-30棵不同类型的树木所环绕 © Photo courtesy MAK, by Stefan Lux The pool at the centre is surrounded by a cluster of 20–30 different living trees

▼由烧焦的松树构成的黑色森林， The grid-like forest of burnt and blackened pines © Photo courtesy MAK, by Stefan Lux

该装置最具启发性的一幕来自于观众望向水池的时刻，它们将从水面上看到其他动物的倒影。为了实现这一点，Superflux与Alpenzoo Innsbruck合作，首先在动物园的水槽中安装了水下摄影机，拍下了许多奥地利本土野生动物喝水时的画面。然后，他们将这些影像投射到安装在水池底部的双向镜面下方，观众们将在水池边与动物王国中的“另一个自己”相遇，带着奇妙的心情沉浸于这段出乎意料而又引人遐想的时刻。

To achieve the moment of revelation at the heart of the work – when the viewer looking into the pool is confronted with the sight of a living animal reflected back at them – Superflux has collaborated with Alpenzoo Innsbruck. By installing underwater camera rigs in the water troughs of the zoo’s native Austrian wildlife, they have been able to capture footage of various animals as they drink. These are then projected onto a screen beneath a two-way mirror at the bottom of the pool, enabling the viewer to experience an unexpected and evocative moment of connection with their ‘opposite number’ in the animal kingdom.

▼水池底部装有双向镜面和投影，观众将从水面上看到其他动物的倒影 © Photo courtesy MAK, by Stefan Lux When the viewer looking into the pool is confronted with the sight of a living animal reflected back at them

▼水池细部，detailed view © Photo courtesy MAK, by Stefan Lux

在10月份双年展结束之后，Superflux计划将仍在生长中的树木捐赠给学校，而烧毁的树木将作为堆肥为维也纳的沉思花园提供养分，帮助丰富城市景观的生物多样性——这也是对支撑着地球上所有生命的、相互依存的关系网络的持续提醒。

Once the Biennale ends in October, Superflux plans to donate the living trees to schools, and to use the burnt trees as compost, which will then be used to nurture a garden of contemplation in Vienna, thus helping to enrich the biodiversity of the urban landscape – a lasting reminder of the web of interdependence that underpins all life on earth. 

▼被烧毁和仍在生长中的树木将在展览结束后被重新利用 Both the living trees and the burnt trees will be reused after the Biennale © Photo courtesy MAK, by Stefan Lux

▼设计草图和模型，sketches and model © Superflux