“Influence Scope” is the range of observation of the world that is available to humans. Scientists have covered the planet with a network of observation sites equipped with intricate equipment that collects data, on the basis of which they can reconstruct the past and predict the future. But actually, the organs of sense and common sense are quite sufficient for most such tasks.

Uniting scientific methods of work, everyday experience, and artistic strategies, the authors of the Influence Scope installation proposes a journey from the prehistoric era to the extinction of life on Earth via five periods of scientific knowledge, each of which is represented by a separate display table that traces the development of various scientific disciplines.

Fascination with detailed graphs, playful ways of presenting accessible knowledge, a free-handed approach to accuracy and intuitive illustration of the “projected forecasts” produced by research institutes—all of these taken together turn the complex concept of objective knowledge and its representation into a synthetic artistic image, where sound reflects the Earth’s weather, light speaks of the elusiveness of facts, text tells of the continuity of our evidence with natural phenomena, and objects suggest that there is always reason to draw new conclusions. Even about things that we humans have never observed.
Production of measurment instruments: Vlad Bulatov.
Created and produced for GES-2 House of Culture