Three workshop talks will take place from September to December 2024. They relate to a work of art to be realized, which represents a spatial model of a landscape adapted to climate change. The framework art project New Skin For A Landscape, initiated by malatsion, deals with the water cycle in the landscape and determines the order and sequence of the workshop discussions. malation invited me to take part in New Skin For A Landscape as a cooperation partner.with malatsion.

 

New Skin For A Landscape 2
September 27, 2024
6 to 8 pm
8 spots
Registration is required, participation is free, although we would appreciate a donation!

Further dates:
October 25, 2024
Closing exhibition and presentation of the booklet:
November 29, 2024

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The theme of “New Skin For A Landscape” is water in the landscape.
As with the Wertheim sisters' “Crochet Coral Reef” project, malatsion is developing an SEA (Socially Engaged Art) project in collaboration with me. This “new skin” of the landscape is based on positive examples of landscape redesign to create a sponge landscape. Using the means of art and as a collaborative engagement with others, we are creating a “monumental costume” for an imagined landscape adapted to climate change.
We have chosen raw wool from local sheep as a material that symbolizes the soil of the landscape - like a skin or a kind of costume of nature. Wool is a material that has been felted, spun, woven and knitted for thousands of years. Today, wool is generally regarded as waste.

Since the Middle Ages, textile production has taken up a considerable proportion of agricultural land. The cultivation of cotton and other textile raw materials has contributed to the drying out of the soil for centuries. But the problems are not limited to the exploitation of the soil. Many people have suffered and continue to suffer from the textile production conditions and the underlying economic structures.

With the kind support of the Kulturamt Frankfurt.

Parallel to the development of the SEA project and in the course of the workshop discussions, the website will be continuously adapted and expanded.