Sarah Katharina Feilmayr

The fernweh to distant, alien worlds is a recurring motive in Sarah Katharina Feilmayrs work. Her modus operandi is often highly dependent on the scientific context and involves installations, collections and appropriation of scientific toolsets. She is currently working at MOOI design as well as on self initiated projects in various fields of design.

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Wie Erinnern?
with Romana Hagyo, Leonie Lehner, Clemens Schrammel

→ Light Installation

2019

The neon sign Wie erinnern? refers to the historical underground of the town of St. Georgen an der Gusen. It marks the area of the tunnels that are largely invisible today and were built under inhumane conditions from January 1944. The question How to remember? addresses the beholder in order to draw attention to the act of remembering and the practices of memory cultures.

Another Sun
Master Thesis University of Arts & Industrial Design Linz

→ Artistic Research

2018

Our basic understanding of space, time and dimension is based on thousands of years of observations of the sky and the stars. The recent discovery of thousands of planets orbiting the stars expands anthropocentric concepts, and thus the possibility of other earths. Thus, astronomy does not only seem to redeem the utopias anticipated by science fiction, it also uses the same strategies in the visualization of its research results. Images generated by space agencies show landscapes which, through constructed sunsets, turn atmospherically staged worlds into visual leitmotifs.In Another Sun, popular image subjects are juxtaposed with the archives of space travel and supplemented with documentation materials and non-fiction books. Technical illustrations, greatly enlarged, coloured and painterly abstracted as a by-product of scientific interpretation. These images outline the formal language of astronomical knowledge, combined with a nostalgicmeasuring instrument to determine the color of a strange sky.

Landezone
ASE – XXIX Planetary Congress Community Day Linz
with Florian Voggeneder

→ Concept, Realisation and Stage Design

2018

Among billions of humans, astronauts are the privileged few to witness the curvature of the earth or even the planet as a whole. This change of perspective, the ability of self-obervation renders manned spaceflight the most relevant anthropological instrument, according to philosopher Peter Sloterdijk.
As part of their community outreach, astronauts and cosmonauts were scheduled in October 2016 in Linz.
The vast space of the empty high bay warehouse at Tabakfabrik Linz was transformed into a symbolical launchpad, which served as stage for the podium were Astronauts reflected about their experiences in space, approaches to space travel, space technologies and their application on earth.