ARxhibiT

Petro/cultures Petro$culptures

MICHAEL ASCHAUER © 2019 "The world needs energy. Western civilization is based on it, and it has been since the Industrial revolution." Rick George, Former President and CEO of Suncor Energy Inc.

"Oil heats and cools our homes, businesses, hospitals and schools. It allows people to live, work and play WHEREVER and WHENEVER they WISH" Greg Stringham, Vice President, Oli Sands, Canadian Association of Petroleum Products

"Our people, our lands and our animals are beeing threatened by the very economy that is prescribed by government and industry." Chief Allen Adam, Chief of Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation

"Canadian oil sands oil is the most moral oil in the world!" Ezra Levant ARxhibiT: Petro/cultures / Petro$culptures

ARxhibiT is a pop-up augmented reality exhibition format based on open WebVR technologies: No app installs, no proprietary licenses - just scan the QR code or pop in the URL, and you are ready to go and hit the markers.

Petro/cultures / Petro$culptures is its first show. It features a virtual sculpture garden full of art histories’ classics blinded by their culture’s addiction to fossil fuels (and other hazardous material).

The science of global warming caused by burning fossil fuel is settled for nearly half a century, but that hasn’t kept our society from burning through megatonnes of oil, gas, and coal.

We know who is responsible. We still blindly follow our leaders along, stumbling like drug addicts on their way to the dealers. The difference to drugs is We - at least try to - put the drug lords and dealers in prison, while our oil lords continue to make politics and enormous profits. Meanwhile, we know it’s is just 100 companies that are directly responsible for 71% of all cumulative greenhouse gas emissions since 1981.

We know it is a social and not a technological problem. Those who cause the mess are also the most capable of adapting, migrating, and laundering their dirty past, money, and energy. The victims of the new age never had a choice anyway. The Western mindset colonizes and exploits nature and people alike.

We know what to do. And we know there is no green-washing about it: we know this comes with massive changes to our lifestyles and infrastructure, and not just replacing technologies with technologies. We know for the world to stay the same (meaning as liveable as it is right now), everything has to change.

The prominently featured 55-gallon drum (also known as the 200-liter drum, or as the 44-gallon drum in Britain) is a cylindrical container typically made of steel. They are commonly used for transporting oils, fuels, chemicals, dry goods - often hazardous materials. The use of 200-liter drums - like so many other things - is a legacy of war machinery. It became widespread in World War II. In the past, hazardous waste was often placed in drums of this size. Over time, some drums would corrode and leak. As a result, these drums have become iconic for pollution problems.

Michael Aschauer, Banff, 2019

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The Farnese Atlas Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli @Scan The World, BY-NC-SA

Atlas (by Bruno D'Arcevia) @Scan The World, BY-NC-SA

Alante Satyres The Louvre @Scan The World, BY-NC-SA

David (by Michelangelo) Accademia di Belle Arti of Florence @Scan The World, MyMiniFactory Exclusive - Credit - Remix - Commercial

Venus of Willendorf The Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria @Scan The World, BY-NC-SA

Lady Justice Summer Garden- St Petersburg @Scan The World, BY-NC-SA

Winged Victory of Samothrace (Nike of Samothrace) The Louvre, Paris @Scan The World, BY-NC-SA

Mercury Abducting Psyche (Adriaen de Vries) The Louvre, Paris @Scan The World, BY-NC-SA

Le Réveil / Galatea Musée des Augustins @Augustins, MyMiniFactory Exclusive - Credit - Remix - Noncommercial

The Thinker by Auguste Rodin. Musée Rodin, France @Musée Rodin, BY-NC-SA

Statue of Liberty @Miro Hrončok, GPL

55 Gallon Oil Drum @ringmaster, CC BY 3.0

#oil pump @Syzguru11, CC BY 3.0

Oil Rig Ornament @HarlanDMii, CC BY 3.0 MADE POSSIBLE WITH SUPPORT OF

The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Federal Chancellery Republic of Austria

SPECIAL THANKS TO

The fossil fuel profit induced donors of the Banff Centre:

The Kahanoff Foundation James S. Kinnear and Friends Suncor Energy Foundation BP Canada Energy Group ULC CNOOC Petroleum North America ULC Enbridge Inc. Encana Corporation Husky Energy Inc. Imperial Shell Canada Limited Max Bell Foundation Suncor Energy Foundation Chevron Canada Limited Cenovus Energy Inc. Encana Corporation Repsol Oil and Gas Canada Inc. (an oil and gas producer) TransCanada Corporation Pengrowth Energy Corporation Alliance Pipeline Anadarko Petroleum Corporation † ARC Resources Ltd. Canadian Natural Resources Limited Pengrowth Management Ltd. Petro-Canada Petronas Energy Canada Rozsa Petroleum Ltd. NOVA Chemicals Corporation Canadian Utilities Limited, an ATCO Company Luscar Ltd. Teck Resources Limited Parkland Fuel Corporation SPECIAL THANKS TO

The Top 100 comanies who make their profit being directly responible for more than 70% of the world's cumlative CO2 emissions since 1980 (as of 2015)

China Coal China National Offshore Oil Corp Ltd (CNOOC) National Iranian Oil Co Ecopetrol SA ExxonMobil Corp Singareni Collieries Company Coal India Occidental Petroleum Corp Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Sonangol EP Russia (Coal) Tatneft OAO Royal Dutch Shell PLC North Korea Coal China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) Bumi Resources BP PLC Suncor Energy Inc Chevron Corp Petoro AS Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) Devon Energy Corp Abu Dhabi National Oil Co Natural Resource Partners LP Poland Coal Marathon Oil Corp Peabody Energy Corp Vistra Energy Sonatrach SPA Encana Corp Kuwait Petroleum Corp Canadian Natural Resources Ltd Total SA Hess Corp BHP Billiton Ltd Exxaro Resources Ltd ConocoPhillips YPF SA Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) Apache Corp Lukoil OAO Murray Coal Rio Tinto Alliance Resource Partners LP Nigerian National Petroleum Corp Syrian Petroleum Co Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas) Novatek OAO Rosneft OAO NACCO Industries Inc Arch Coal Inc KazMunayGas Iraq National Oil Co Adaro Energy PT Eni SPA Petroleos del Ecuador Anglo American Inpex Corp Surgutneftegas OAO Kiewit Mining Group Alpha Natural Resources Inc AP Moller (Maersk) Qatar Petroleum Corp Banpu Public Co Ltd PT Pertamina EOG Resources Inc Kazakhstan Coal Husky Energy Inc Statoil ASA Kideco Jaya Agung PT National Oil Corporation of Libya Bahrain Petroleum Co (BAPCO) Consol Energy Inc Westmoreland Coal Co Ukraine Coal Cloud Peak Energy Inc RWE AG Chesapeake Energy Corp Oil & Natural Gas Corp Ltd Drummond Co Glencore PLC Teck Resources Ltd TurkmenGaz Turkmennebit Sasol Ltd OMV AG Repsol SA Noble Energy Inc Anadarko Petroleum Corp Murphy Oil Corp Egyptian General Petroleum Corp Berau Coal Energy Tbk PT Petroleum Development Oman LLC Bukit Asam (Persero) Tbk PT Czech Republic Coal Indika Energy Tbk PT China Petrochemical Corp (Sinopec) Southwestern Energy Co

source: CDP's Carbon Majors Report, http://climateaccountability.org/pdf/CarbonMajorsRpt2017%20Jul17.pdf