A Zoo’s Message About Pollution

By Jill Harness in Animals & Pets, Travel on Jun 29, 2009 at 11:57 pm

Artists Christoph Steinbrener and Rainer Dempf created this art installation in the Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna to show the potential effects our negative actions take on the evironment.

According to the artists, these scenes of ecological nightmares are “experimental set-up[s]” in which “the viewer is forced to reconsider traditional modes of animal presentation and simultaneously to question the authenticity of concepts which are restaging ‘natural’ environments while they are increasingly endangered.”

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Tags: animals, art installations, exhibits, zoos

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smfr
Jun 30th, 2009 at 12:00 am
Typo in the title: “polution”
VonSkippy
Jun 30th, 2009 at 12:23 am
It’s not a typo, it’s “art” about the juxtaposition of life and the strife of mother earth (or some other artsy fartsy garbage like that).
dani
Jun 30th, 2009 at 2:14 am
Wow, very interesting…
Mytake
Jun 30th, 2009 at 2:52 am
The description is pretentious drivel, and the point should have been made in a simpler, less costly fashion. We don’t really need blowhard, self-important “artistes” to tell us pollution is bad.
Shelby @ Swift Heat
Jun 30th, 2009 at 5:21 am
Good point there Mytake, we really don’t need such a round about way to get our attention that pollution is indeed bad for mother earth
dutchboy
Jun 30th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
It is difficult to find examples of pollution like this, I’m serious.
Kalel
Jun 30th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Now the fish are schooling US!
Allen Nyhuis
Jun 30th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
No one loves going to the Zoo more than me, and I’ve been to over 210 of them worldwide (including Vienna). But honestly, I don’t like this exhibit. I’d rather see the animals in their “natural habitat”, even if that’s a bit outdated.

Allen Nyhuis, Coauthor: America’s Best Zoos

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