人类世博物馆：展览3.0——黑曜石之雨

策展人：Cave_bureau

1 展览装置全景/Overall view of exhibition installation

“黑曜石之雨”是对肯尼亚姆拜洞穴的一部分进行的装置表现。在20世纪中叶，反殖民自由战士在此居住，并将其用作公社办事处来计划他们的反抗大业。该装置由一系列被剑麻绳悬吊于天花板的黑曜石组成，其下方摆放着一张桌子，用于主持肯尼亚、非洲大陆及其他区域环境与建筑学科现状的讨论和其他相关话题的探讨。

建筑师卡巴吉·卡兰加娓娓道来项目的研究过程：“我们大约在7年前仔细扫描了这个洞穴。在那次观测过程中，我们发现这是一个熔岩洞，由裂谷内众多火山的喷发而形成。因此，我们使用了较为高端的技术来再现这个空间。通过3D扫描，我们不仅在皮革上描绘了剖面图，还展示了该洞穴的青铜模型。此外，较大的装置由一系列黑曜石组成，它们高低错落，如同洞穴的顶部。黑曜石扎根于人类的历史，在中石器时代，这些石头被用于制作长矛、刀具来宰杀动物。我们觉得裂谷内这些丰富的材料非常适合用来作为悬于我们头顶之上的遗产和历史元素。”

该项目并不局限于传统博物馆建筑那些无伤大雅的活动，也不限于其政治活动（这些活动往往没有多少自由来公然挑战盛行的现状）。它是在非洲背景下对这种古老机构的（重新）构建以及对建筑本身的实践。同时，它仍以我们自己的方式为围绕我们所处的新地质时代“人类世”的全球意识与交流做出贡献。

第17届国际建筑展的国际评审团授予Cave_bureau特别提名奖，表彰其“对人类最古老的生存环境之一进行的富有想象力和创造性的探索。”□（王单单 译）

项目信息/Credits and Data

策展人/参展人/Curators/Exhibitors: Kabage Karanja, Stella Mutegi/Cave_bureau

合作/Collaborator: Densu Moseti

支持方/Supporters: Pacific Africa Group, FUN - Future Urban Narrative

摄影/Photos: Francesco Galli

图片来源/Photo Courtesy: La Biennale di Venezia

2-4 展览装置/Exhibition installations

5-9 展览装置/Exhibition installations

Obsidian Rain is a transposed section of the Mbai cave in Kenya, which was inhabited in the middle of the twentieth century by anti-colonial freedom fighters who used it as a commune chamber to plan their resistance. The installation consists of a collection of obsidian stone hanging from the ceiling with sisal rope. Beneath it is a table meant to host discussions about the environment and the state of the architectural discipline in Kenya, the African continent, and beyond, among other relevant topics.

The architect Kabage Karanja talked about the process of their research, "We effectively scanned the cave about 7 years ago. During that scanning, we discovered it is a lava tube cave created through the eruption of a multitude of volcanos within the rift valley. In that regard, we used very high-end technology to represent that space, so with the 3D scan, we've created cross-section drawings on leather, we've represented bronze models of the cave that is on display. And the larger installation is a series of Obsidian stones, that are lowered at different layers to match the roof of the cave. And Obsidian stones has its roots in our alley history as mankind. During the Middle Stone Age, these stones were found in spears, knife tools, to slaughter animals, we feel this material which is in abundance in the rift valley was quite suitable to use as an element of our heritage and history hanging over us."

The project here is not confined to the often innocuous activities of a conventional museum building or its politics that often provide little freedom to overtly challenge the status quo of the prevailing times. A (re)construction of sort of this age-old institution and the practice of architecture itself within the African context; while still in our own way contributing to the global consciousness and discourse surrounding the new geological age we live in, the Anthropocene.

The international Jury of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition has awarded special mention to Cave_bureau for "an imaginative and creative exploration of one of man's oldest living environments."□