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#art/sci research week / September 2-6, 2024

What are the ethical and long-term standards of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)? Could CCS result in unrestricted growth in industrial production? What are the potential risks and trade-offs and how are local communities involved in the discussion? These and other questions are being raised, discussed, and mapped during a week-long research on CCS prospects in Austria, as well as other CO2 storage solutions, in dialogue with partners from science and the industry.

#pre_solstice_banquet / June 15, 2024

The Carbon Busters’ first ceremony invited guests to a collective celebration of experiences and reflective exchange.  What better place to mark a turning point in our relationship with CO2 than the Haus der Laune (House of Whimsy)? The 18th-century building in Laxenburg Palace Park allegorizes the grotesqueness of the inverted world, where reason is faced with irrational desires. Participatory visual, acoustic and somatic rituals featuring #carbon handprint, #soundhelion, #hakoto, and #breathing CO2 were performed during a collective #solarcooking feast to honour the summer solstice of renewal and rebirth.