Location: Vilnius, Lithuania
Date: 2022
Programme: Exhibition 
Client: SODAS 2123
Status: Completed
Area: 60m²
Team: Traumnovelle (architects)


As fossil fuels rarefy and EU governments prepare to face shortages reminiscent of the 1973 oil crisis, alternate forms of energy production are gaining traction.

In the framework of the “Politics of Space” symposium and exhibition, organised by Architektūros fondas, Traumnovelle presents a speculative project entitled “POWER”, will take place from September 29 to October 15 in the cultural complex SODAS 2123 in Vilnius, Lithuania. The POWER pact is a trans-national initiative aiming to produce unlimited energy.

Amidst the EU’s dismantlement of nation-states in favour of local governance, the project investigates an alternative approach to off-centered mega-infrastructure, giving energy production infrastructure a symbolic and civic role for our civilisation.
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POWER


It happened during the night. A former
teacher at the last school of Lasnamäe
found it. While humanity was counting
down the last bags of rice after decades
of darkness, the light came. Everything
became possible that been impossible
beforehand. The news circulated at the
speed of light, shared from citiy to city.
Amidst the ashes of the world, project
POWER was born.

A few decades later, salvation was everywhere.
Free, unlimited energy and shared
knwoledge, made possible by the creation
of a new star, ATUM.
ATUM, which harvests the energy in
space, is considered by many to be subject to its one will. So far has always been
to help humankind.
All over the world, the infrastructured
landscape of doom has been transformed
into receptors of this unlimited
energy and knowledge, proving us yet
again that it is often in the darkest caves
that flourish the brightest diamands.
Freed from their inevitable fate, Gaia and
the humanity that is part of it were then

able to explore new ways to cohabitate.
New ways to make societies. Borders
of communities from the ancient world
were all already destroyed. Another path
had to be taken.
People gathered in different communities,
often close to a receptor. Each community
free to explore their own rules.
Still, every hive shared some common values like the absolute right for each
of its member to join any other hives or
even none.
Thus was born a world of active archipelago
and ultimate freedom.
The transmitors born from former open
pits and wounded landscapes not only
act to provide energy and knowledge but
also as Axis mundi. As places to gather, to play, pray love .
What in another time might have been
called sacred places.













RAM(U)OA


All over the world, the infrastructured
landscape of doom has been transformed
into receptors of this unlimited
energy and knowledge, proving us yet
again that it is often in the darkest caves
that flourish the brightest diamands.
Freed from their inevitable fate, Gaia and
the humanity that is part of it were then



















TERENA



(C) In lieu of our most holy and beloved daughter L.M.,
I have written to you as the dearest sister and best friend,
I appeal to you, through my sister Mary,
I implore you, through my mother Mary,
God bless you and make you my soul,
I pray you, through my beloved brother Henry,
Father, be blessed by my holy mother Anne,
God bless you and make you my soul,
I hope that you will all support me all of you.
1Lii. It appears from the above, it is the same in every place where
the letters are written; therefore, they will not be translated in any
place.
II. Therefore, when in any place I feel the pains of such distress, I
should rejoice at how long I have been able to do so.
3. For the pains in which I am placed in such dire circumstances are
as great in that place as the pains in which I am placed in this land. 2
3. And this, if I do not remember so much of it, what are we talking
about?
4. For I know that the anguish and perplexity in which I have been
placed may




















MAI LAN

[12:17] <@moobot> I will die in the process
[12:17] we got that!
[12:17] and
[12:17] And
[12:17] we need to take the time
[12:17] to get started
[12:17] get in touch
[12:17] https://twitter.com/BipolarBear0/status/
8252788139580274848
[12:17] what do you get in return for your hard work?
[12:17] no fucking shit you cant eat that
[12:17] yeesep
[12:17] <@Moobot> It was probably a stupid call
[12:18] is that the real deal?
[12:18] not only did i get this but I got to play with myself.
I wanted to get to grips with this little thing I call the “mind”, and i













ARYA


The entire section of the staircase was very dark, but was clear as day.
[-4] I really did not like where I was on the ladder. This is another problem
related to lightbulbs (the ones on the top of the stairs) but the
fire that got so severe on top of this staircase led to an even stronger
cause. The staircase that was covered with this fire, the one that was
on the left side of the staircase, was the issue






MANDCHOU


The Arithmetic Tree
It’s almost impossible to see a more productive and effective method
in the world - or even for that matter, any other one, except by
the fact that they don’t even need to actually do any math.
But I don’t know about you, but at least you don’t need to try to
be the first one to get the rest of your life back on track if you want
it to work. And they’re still going to make you smile even if you’ve
done no work (or even if you have to do nothing). The most important
part of the miracle is simply the fact that there’s something
you can do - and it does absolutely nothing for you.
You’ll know this if you’ve met Greg, one of my favorite friends and
members of my «Family of Friends». And then Greg will be forever
grateful that you came along, as it was my first time meeting him.
You won’t be able to keep up with him on your own, though you definitely
won’t be able to keep up with those of us who get involved
with his stuff, if you can, if you’re in that relationship. So instead,
it’s not necessary to try to be Greg himself, no matter how good it
says on the billboard!
Greg is a fun, engaging, hard-working writer. Sometimes you’ll see
things he didn’t even know he had until some sort of sudden

















BAMBOTE


I find myself surrounded again by birds I love.
I get to spend time with birds in the morning. I get to explore how
birds live and develop and how birds survive.
A bird that’s been in my home, is the world’s best at what it does. A
bird that will teach me something new in my life. A bird that won’t
die if I can’t take in new possibilities.
A bird of my whole life that keeps the lights on and watches over me
through the forest.






ATUM


And we find ourselves in this precarious position between having two
things — one and the other of some sort; with our lives and the lives
of others going to hell, and with the possibility of our own having the
possibility of the possibility and the possibility of death.
In that case, we will go back to the situation of the world at the moment,
which is exactly the situation of the world with two things, one
the present world and another the future world. Since the world in
which we live, though very different from its present state of existence,
exists, we will say that it is only a temporary situation, and that for it
to remain that way it must have to remain within it, and that it must
lose its place in the world as a permanent matter, and that it must be
allowed to remain within the present situation in case of necessity
but not necessarily in case of necessity: whereas the present world is,
in a word, as the present situation for us, the world just as any other
place of it. In that case, we must move on to another part of the issue.
But it may, as we have seen, there are also other things that may be
left for future generations of mankind. There may be new elements
which have been produced by what was to be born, and that may be
in other parts of the world but that is not for us.













POWER