2025. Performance lecture as part of the conference 'Energy transition', organized by
Imaginaria of Force, Universität Hamburg, hosted by
'im Tal'
material: mud and kelp from Meldorfer Bucht on watercolour paper, cabbage, map of Lunden with potential area for wind energy, reed, vintage picture frames of various sizes, ink, fibre glass, notes, quotes and text fragments from my notebooks on the subject matter of landscape
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April 2025. 'The landscape here is without any frills', says the guest from the south.
January 2025. 'Do you really live in that village?' he asks during the interview. He can hardly believe it, let alone understand it. The conversation falters, and fizzles out. I wonder what a place of residence says about a resident and her work. How does a place shape the person, and how does a person shape a place?
The white-tailed eagle resettled southwest of the site during the 2019 breeding season. Therefore, taking over the site is initially only possible in the area covered with wind turbines, since, according to information from MELUND (Ministry for Energy Transition, Agriculture, Environment, Nature and Digitization of the State of Schleswig-Holstein), the competent authority under Section 45 (7) Sentence 1 of the Federal Nature Conservation Act (BNatSchG), only there can an exemption be granted pursuant to Section 45 (7) Sentence 1 No. 5 of the Federal Nature Conservation Act (BNatSchG) from the ban under Section 44 of the Federal Nature Conservation Act (BNatSchG). This ensures that the priority given to wind energy use can also prevail at the regional planning level in subsequent procedural stages.
March 2025. I often think: The landscape is a garden. The surrounding trees are the horizon. In between, there are a few paths, dark corners for ferns and the Roman snail. Here, I see, recognize, and understand what is directly in front of me. Who owns the landscape? Who has the right to change it? (.....)
