Jochen Lempert

 untitled, 2009, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2010

 untitled, 2006, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2010

Francisco Tropa

Scenario, 2011 (detail)

Scenario, 2011

(general view of the exhibition)

Francisco Tropa, Scenario, 2011, Padiglione Portoghese - 

54th Biennale di Venezia -  Photos: Pedro Tropa

Dragana Sapanjos

Lucy’s

2010, variable dimensions

300 glasses, 300 cockroach (blatta lateralis)

Lucy’s

installation view

Lucy’s

installation view

Lucy’s

installation view

The work is conceived as an expanded field of upside down crystal glasses. Each glass is a device for trapping a common cockroach. The insects thus isolated may remind of a wicked childhood game... an antique way to protect ourselves from what disgusts us, and at the same time, give us a chance to watch comfortably our fears, with the illusion of control. Evolution has designed the insects to be a virtually inexhaustible and constantly evolving species, as the fears of men are. The act of enclosing the insects isolating them from each other, robs them of their greatest strength, which is precisely the reproduction.

Like the monads of Leibniz, the crystal glass - enclosed insects start to behave as small isolated centers of energy, with an indipendent "inner life", that can no longer be influenced from the Outside.

Radoslav Putar aword, Galerije Galzenica, Velika Gorica- Zagreb

http://www.draganasapanjos.net/dragana/lucy.html

Kurt Caviezel

Insekten

http://www.kurtcaviezel.ch/Insekten/index.html

Patrick Van Caeckenber

Project for Holy beetles, 1991

100 x 148 cm

mixed media (collage)

Zimoun

25 woodworms, wood, microphone, sound system, 2009

http://zimoun.ch/works/2009/woodworms1/woodworms1_mov.html

http://vimeo.com/6191050

Mahmoud Refat, Pe Lang + Zimoun «Statics II» 2006

Stereo compositons and arrangements by Mahmoud Refat, Pe Lang + Zimoun.

Cover by Marc Beekhuis. Published by Leerraum [ ].

http://zimoun.ch/027_statics2.html

Mahmoud Refat + Zimoun «Statics I» 2006

Stereo compositons, sounds and arrangements by Mahmoud Refat + Zimoun.

Cover by Marc Beekhuis. Published by Leerraum [ ].

http://zimoun.ch/026_statics1.html

Zimoun «Kabel 0.2» 2006

Stereo compositons, 2004-2005. All sounds emitted through defective wiring.

Cover by Marc Beekhuis. Published by Leerraum [ ].

http://zimoun.ch/022_kabel.html

Superflex

A Cockroach Tour of the Science Museum

"Humans look for a problem, build a technical way of getting around it - and afterwards they build a museum"

Constantly beetling away with new discoveries and inventions, we humans are a curious breed... or that's how we might appear to the group of cockroaches recently spotted exploring the Science Museum's galleries. 

Find out what it's like to be one of the planet's true survivors. Having outlived the dinosaurs, what will they make of our obsessions with speed, time... and burning things? 

Put yourself in their shells. Sign up with your friends and family for "A Cockroach Tour of the Science Museum" and get an inquisitive take on the human race. 

Created by Superflex as part of Science Museum Arts Projects 

Script by Nikolaj Heltoft. Costume design by Emma Jorn and Sabine Storm in collaboration with Esben Horn. 

Cockroach Tours will start in 22. January 2011 at the Science Museum in London, UK. 

For bookings or enquiries please call the Science Museum at +44 (0) 870 870 4868. 

For updates and trailer:

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/cockroachtour 

For press images:

http://www.superflexserver.net/press/tag/cockroach 

Press contact Superflex:

Rasmus Nielsen

+45 28925070

Press contact Science Museum:

Laura Singleton

+44 (0) 20 7942 4364