Since the advent of nuclear power in Germany, two sites have become synonymous with the end of a technological feasibility fantasy: the Kalkar fast-breeder reactor, which was never brought on line, and the Asse II atomic waste storage plant. *Dream Water Wonderland* transforms the legacy of the nuclear industry into a dream of half-life durations. 

The installation consists of two Plexiglas cubes placed on top of each other. The upper level houses a futuristic record player from the 1970s. A crystalline tower rises from the center pin. Downwards, through the player itself, into the lower cube, a delicate, scale-model 3D print of the underground Asse II mine rotates like a radar beam. 

The first sequence of the video projected on the rear panel shows the Kalkar cooling tower, which is now an amusement park. In the second sequence the camera flies inside the tower on a large carousel along the walls and over the edge of the tower into the sky. When the audience comes closer to the installation a sensor gives a signal to the record player, which then autonomously starts playing. The sound inside the cubes, an echolike “Atmosound” of the tower and the dream record playing on the record player, can be heard on headphones hanging in front of the cubes. It tells a dream about a strange, birdlike, blue creature that is made to take up residence with families but which needs incredible amounts of electricity.


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Installation with 3D print of Asse II, vinyl record, voice recording, Beogram 4000 record player, video projection (Kalkar Wunderland)

Since the advent of nuclear power in Germany, two sites have become synonymous with the end of a technological-feasibility fantasy – the fast breeder Kalkar and the nuclear waste storage Asse II. Dream Water Wonderland transforms the legacy of atomic industry into a dream of half-life durations.

**Ute Hoerner** (DE), born 1964, studied sculpture at the Stuttgart Academy of Fine Arts with Prof. Inge Mahn and Prof. Alfred Hdrlicka. 1997-1999 XObject Space, Laboratory of Arts and New Media, Dusseldorf, 1998 festival director of Videonale 8 at the Bonner Kunstverein (together with Judith Ruzicka). 1999-2008, professor of media art at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Arts and Design, Halle. Since 2009, professor of media art at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. **Mathias Antlfinger** (DE), born 1960, studied fine arts in teaching at the Stuttgart Academy of Fine Arts and mathematics at Stuttgart University. 1991-96, studies in sculpture and cybernetics at the Dusseldorf Academy of Fine Arts. 1999-2005, artistic member of staff, Media Art Department of Burg Giebichenstein, University of Arts and Design, Halle. Since 2009, professor of media art at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. Hörner/Antlfinger have been an artist couple since the early 1990s. In their retro futuristic practice, they often combine ancient technologies of consciousness with new media and juxtapose personal visions with their collective counterpart.