Videoinstallation
Project management: Monika Witte

“The future is also no longer what it used to be.” (Karl Valentin, 1882–1948)

This sentence is more relevant than ever. Fear, despair, and frustration are mixed into our ideas of the future.

Unpredictable diseases, environmental disasters and the fear of war increasingly determine our future. They drive us to the streets to protest, but also cause us to despair and search for stability. With the gradual disappearance of raw materials, animal and plant species, and entire landscapes, the hope for a future worth living is more and more fading.

We, art students of the University of Osnabrück and students of the Music and Art School of the City of Osnabrück, have been looking for possibilities to preserve genuinely threatened landscapes through the means of art, to secure them within ourselves.

In the city of Osnabrück, the so-called green fingers connect the inner city with the surrounding landscape and are of great importance for the urban climate, biodiversity, and local recreation. However, they are in danger of disappearing due to increasing building development.

In the video installation, several performers using a drawing utensil on paper try to capture what they see in one of these green spaces, over and over again. However, the repetitive intensive process of drawing does not serve to produce memory products but is rather meant to deeply anchor what is seen in the drawing process itself.

• Sektion Section: Campus
• Programm Programme: The Future Is Also No Longer What It Used to Be