Open Studio

Dilsberg, Germany

March 2022

Our exhibition at the Kommandant’s House in Dilsberg include This Planted Place installation and an open studio. It was important to us that we share our process and thinking with people within our German network and residents who visited our exhibition. So we had an open studio. It included four framed collages that mirrored actual tree rings that we had photographed of cut trees. To mimic the cutting of the trees, we cut up our research, brochures, and other printed materials we had collected over the last two years. The collages were thematic: tourism, animals, Heidewald, and Odenwald. Along side the collages was a poster-within-a-poster that included marginalia reflective of our thinking and research. The poster demands: “TREES NEED A UNION” and “HUMANS WILL LIVE THE WORLD OF OUR INTERSPECIES DREAM”. We also offered small self-directed listening exercise that people could do in the nearby woods.

photo: Elisa Berdica

Commissioned by Matchbox - the itinerant art and culture project in the Rhine-Neckar Region as part of 3 WOODS.