Gelbe Städte

The garden is a space for the sublimation of our complex reveries of power. It is a construct of control, a metaphor of our species that, immersed in a foundational self, shapes cosmologies of the natural.

The title yellow cities refers to the fine yellow dust that has covered our cities this summer and is due to a kind of anxiety bloom caused in the pine trees by climatic changes.

The installative work deals with terms and concepts relating to adaptation to climate change, vulnerability and, above all, the idea of the total controllability of nature by humans.

(Statement by the artist Alex Besta on the work)

Anela Luzi (speaker's voice)

Texts read from:

Die Natur der Zukunft, Tier- und Pflanzenwelt in Zeiten des Klimawandels, Bernhard Kegel. Historical gardens and climate change, Reinhard F. Hüttl, Karen David, Bernd Uwe Schneider.

Philippe Mainz (video)

Thomas Kolb (technical support)

Video contributions from the smartphones of:

Alex Besta, Robert Besta, Lena Loy, Nik Lock, Valentin Schmidt, Philippe Mainz.