Oliver Ressler has compiled a critical inventory of the public treatment of discussions surrounding gene technology. The artist's project is conceived as a counterbalance to five "Gen-Welten" (Gene-Worlds) exhibitions taking place at present (Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Bonn, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum in Dresden etc.). Ressler's exhibition project "opposing Gene-Worlds: Oppositions to Genetic Engineering" (geGen-Welten: Widerstände gegen Gentechnologien) comprises of three integral parts. A poster series with warning references in Graz, warning signs put up in various art institutions in Germany, Switzerland and Austria (in the Generali Foundation in Vienna, the NGBK in Berlin, the Galerie Gasser & Grunert in Cologne, the Kunstraum München in Munich, the Shedhalle in Zurich etc.) and the exhibition in the Forum Stadtpark. The exhibition presents information materials such as pamphlets, manifestos and information brochures of organisations critical of genetic engineering. (Franz Niegelhell)
(Publication: edition selene, 1998, 84 p., german (ISBN: 3-85266-071-8))