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PETER WEIBEL:follow me to the rightMartin, what I find so interesting about your work is the development of
a concept of sculpture which is very sophisticated, chiefly in terms of the materials used and the idea of what nature, sculpture, space and objects actually are. For decades, a trans-formation process has been underway here which has developed the concept of sculpture in Austria more than anywhere else towards new materials, processes and also somewhat towards certain forms of action of structural practice. At the same time, you have also devel-oped the content of the concept of sculpture. Therefore, my first question is when did you start working on Hallucigenia?

 
follow me to the right Hallucigenia    
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follow me to the right Solaris   MARTIN WALDE:follow me to the rightI first came across Hallucigenia back in 1987 in a book; it’s a pheno-menon of faith and science in the broadest sense. Hallucigenia was part of a palaeonto-logical discovery made by Charles Wolcott in Canada in the early twentieth century. In 1989, Hallucigenia was first introduced to a broader audience by Stephen J. Gould and examined by Simon Conway Morris. Hallucigenia comprised impressions of soft body animals. This was the first discovery of an animal with soft parts, which was 570 million years old, and in which the structure of the soft parts could be seen. This totally changed our ideas of what these organisms could have looked like millions of years ago. Gould used this discovery to call into question all theories, including the theory of evolution. He turned the evolutionary tree upside down, adopting Hallucigenia as one of his heraldic animals. Immediately after
reading the book I may even have been the first person to reconstruct Hallucigenia, and I
was right in regarding it as a modern unicorn of science or our age. In the end, in 1992 the
Hallucigenia were quite simply turned on their head – something which Gould described as
the ‘Reversal of Hallucigenia’. At this time, his theory was attacked and also turned on its
head. Since this reversal in 1992, I have made a new Hallucigenia model almost every year in which something changed each time: sometimes it walked forwards, sometimes back-wards, and sometimes it was reminiscent of an ant eater. And I always tried to apply models of existing organisms to Hallucigenia. At that time, the internet wasn’t yet wide-spread. But when I first began searching for Hallucigenia on the internet in 1997 or 1998, I couldn’t believe how many examples I found there. It turned out that it wasn’t just me but also many other people who were fascinated by the name and the creature.
 
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follow me to the right further authors:   follow me to the rightHallucigenia Products developed directly out of this Hallucigenia fiction. The first Hallucigenia product had a silicone form, a very organic form, which I modelled on nature. In order to build it, I had to extremely dysfunctionalise the material. follow me to the right(continued >>>)      
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