๐งCloudbuster๐ง by ๐๐๐ก๐๐๐ก๐ข ๐๐๐๐๐
In 1953 the Austrian psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich began to experiment with the Cloudbuster, a device he had created to influence the atmosphere, to make it rain or keep it from raining – according to various reports of that time with great success. The way the Cloudbuster functioned was based on Reich’s theory of the human libido as a universal energy, inherent in living as well as organic matter, the radiation of which he called Orgone – a neologism composed of orgasm and organism. In May and June of this year Christoph Keller, while in New York as P.S.1 scholar, conducted the re-enactments of Reich’s experiments with his own reconstruction of the Cloudbuster with the aim to create rain – during that time New York experienced the heaviest rainfalls since the beginning of meteorological observation. The present exhibition is the second part of the re-enactments of the Cloudbuster-experiments. The exhibition space is presented as an observatory where over the first two weeks...
