Appropriating landscape through tourism, sport,
photography or other artistic practices also means owning
the fractures of it. What can it mean to take responsibility for
a fracture on an environmental and social level?
My series of glacier crack frottages is an artistic exploration of something that will soon be gone. The changing shape of the cracks draws boundaries between something that is lost and something that is new, something that is just emerging, while we are inextricably caught in between.
[...] selbst rissig werden; das Aufgebrochene als das Eigene anerkennen; in einen Spalt stürzen, während man sich fragt, was eigentlich passiert; eine Öffnung bemerken, die uns umhüllt und die uns wiederum selbst zur Offenheit anstiftet.
How do personal freedom and responsibility relate to each other? Visitors to the Owning the Fractures exhibition were invited to discuss and collect thoughts, which were recorded and placed in a time capsule. The capsule was then dropped into a crack in the Mer de Glace, from where it will emerge by itself as the glacier melts.
I ask myself: do you even have to put something in the capsule for a new thought to be provoked?
This is a preview of Owning the Fractures.
It is supported by Wissenschaft im Dialog and will soon be presented on a separate project page.
