Two solar cells, car batteries, a heat pump, hose and cable are combined by visual artist, architect, draughtsman and inventor Markus Jeschaunig to build a utopian machine that uses melting energy to turn water back into ice. If the experiment succeeds, could – as the machine suggests – the melting of the poles be brought into a productive cycle with the help of technology? Jeschaunig’s visionary drawings and projects are devoted to climate change. His installations are inspired by perpetual motion – the precursor to this work, for example, was an inflatable greenhouse structure supplied with waste heat from a restaurant kitchen. As part of the Breathe Earth Collective, he also formulates thought-provoking impulses that point to potential solutions in the development of current technologies and at the same time expose human megalomania in the age of the Anthropocene.
Expedition Re-Frost/Anthroprint, 2020–2021
Markus Jeschaunig
With thanks to the following companies: Rattay GmbH, Schmelzer GmbH, Sautter ZT.
