DREAM 5: Seeds
As authoritarian forces worldwide undermine democracy and drive forward war and ecological devastation, movements of resistance and renewal are simultaneously emerging. »Seeds« gathers artistic positions that hold utopian potential from the crisis – and presents interview clips with the participating artists.
The internationally multi-award-winning aerial photographs of J. Henry Fair document the reality of industrial environmental destruction. For »Seeds« he shows a current project to protect the Okefenokee Swamp – a fight for land, life, and future.
Reiner Heidorn presents an overpainted North America map created exclusively for the exhibition from his project Overpainting History – a picturesque commentary on the history of the colonial settler project and its current resurgence in the world domination fantasies of U.S. American fascism.
Sasperella The Mermaid brings a vision from Indigenous work to preserve the Amazon rainforest – and transforms it into a dense musical fabric of voices, memories, and resistance.
On the trail of his indigenous ancestors, he presents Inö Ritual music from Latin America – sounds from cultures whose knowledge of community and nature gains new significance in times of planetary crisis.
Tim Ra presents new video and sound works that explore the deep layers of our dystopian present while simultaneously opening up psychedelic and futuristic perspectives – as sonic probes into possible futures.
A symbolic focal point of the exhibition is the solar system of preserved dandelion seed heads by Lavanya Honeyseeda. From the floating seeds arises a cosmic mobile of possibility and dissemination – an image of new beginnings, the future, and the power of seeds from which new worlds can grow.
Jens Strüver & Tim Ra | Water of Life