Category: Objects 2016-2021

 

If the world is managing the Corona crisis, I ask why it has come to us. It has common causes with the climate crisis, e.g. we fly too much. Wild animals, livestock and animal products are transported around the globe. Another reason is factory farming, e.g.  swine flu, bird flu, or Spanish flu. We humans are claiming more and more wildlife habitats for ourselves. Environmental degradation affects natural species communities. As a result, contact between wildlife, livestock and humans is increasing. The Corona crisis shows that humanity has reached a turning point, it must preserve the remaining natural areas. Otherwise the pandemics will repeat themselves.

The response of the states shows that with strong crisis action, containment of the Corona crisis is possible. This is exactly what we need for the climate crisis. The viewer is an actor at the counter who can influence both crises.

For Exhibition: “RE-SPACE / Retrieve space
10 years network of free Berlin project spaces and initiatives”

An SUV in a rat trap on black velvet drives off until the trap snaps shut. A picture of our current addictive inability to free ourselves from fossil fuel dependence to prevent the climate crisis. The trap is still open. Video 30 sec.

A vision of the present. The vision became real in 2021, unfortunately.

Flood

Politicians seem concerned, speak of insight.
You manage disaster politically.
But what measures are those responsible taking more seriously and more consistently against the cause of the climate crisis?
What else has to happen for us to take the wake-up call seriously, for politics to wake up, for the voters to go on like this?
We do not take the risks seriously and cling to our fossil fuel habits.
These deluges will be repeated and even stronger, here and becausewide. The energy turnaround with the move away from fossil fuels to renewables must come much faster.

Pollutant of the month

Berlin, 2018
MDF carrier, cardboard, paper, paint, glue
120 x 60 x 1,5 cm
To be updated according to progress and regress by moving and inserting new signs.

Pollutants of the month are created when economic interests triumph over scientific knowledge, or in human terms, when greed triumphs over reason.