Eduard Klena

In the 20th century, Nikolaj Kardashev proposed a theoretical scale called The "Kardashev scale", which measures the maturity of a civilization according to the technology it can use to capture and process energy. This scale has 3 levels, with the first level summing up the energy of their planet and a civilization overcoming its societal problems, the second level processing the power of its star, and the third level harnessing the energy of its entire galaxy.

The Kingdom of Spain is terraforming Andalusia, preparing it for climate change and the inevitable drought.

The Japanese Empire uses robots and droids to fill jobs that are no longer needed on the islands.

Elon Musk is sending the first unmanned colonization ships to Mars in 2026 to make preparations for human settlement.

Slovakia.

It runs day after day, year after year. We recently experienced a gentle revolution and today we are considered a member of advanced Western civilization, the so-called first world. Whether we want to admit it or not, we are one of the richest and most advanced countries in the world.

28% of the Slovak population think that a woman should not leave a marriage after repeated violence.

30% of the Slovak population think that a woman should endure domestic violence if there are children in the household.
According to European research by the FRA agency, 47% of women have experienced one form of psychological violence during their lifetime, such as: controlling behavior, humiliation, intimidation or threats of harming children.
According to the same research, 34% of women have experienced physical and/or sexual violence by a partner or other person during their lifetime. (bezmodrin.sk)
The modus operandi of the exhibition "where nothing here nothing" is "nothing is happening, everything is fine." Everything is going as it should. You can't see it on the street. People move, cars drive, the sun rises every day. Why are the waters turbulent, when everything has its own regime and has been working well for years. Traditionally.
The curatorial concept works / underlines "nothing anywhere, absence, lack of interest in the problem, irrelevance and "not being" a social theme, the text and idea is present on the "traffic" panel, which is usually placed in a place where people don't stay much, they can pay attention to it, but they don't have to, thus creating a soulless space, silently in a loop reminding the bitter reality we live, which we perceive / don't perceive, which we glimpse, as blinking on the way around. We can keep an eye on it, give it a moment, but when it is not intrinsically touching us, we return to our line / our path / our bubble.
The works of authors are in contact with the embarrassing, kitschy, dogmatized idea of traditional Slovak culture, and violence, physical or psychological, corruption, tribal behavior, discrimination, "feudal mentality of thinking of the end of the 18th century" (Buzalka - Postsedliaci) is hidden under the so-called Slovak conservatism and domestic Catholicism. The artists leave an open space when "tradition" means a violation of the basic principles of humanism, because any shift of society up from this so-called conservative well of wisdom, is attacked, questioned, considered "foreign" and invasive, directly threatening the status quo, even by the nation's highest leaders.

The authors look at Slovakia through the conflict within society, where the older generation may not be as sensitive as the younger generation.

"if I endured it, so can you"
"today's girls can't stand anything today"
"people today are so gentle, they accept everything more"

We are creating nanorobots that will travel through the body and diagnose diseases in their germs, yet "we haven't even reached point one on the above-mentioned Kardashian scale, we still remain society zero."* (Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson, Rodney Ramos - Transmetropolitan / The new scum)