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Touching Grass (Exhibition)
We say nature heals. We say “touch the grass”. Nature softens the weight we carry, the invisible heaviness of anxiety, fear, sadness, feelings that we carry around. When you are feeling overwhelmed, down, anxious, or depressed, when everything feels too much, going into nature - touching trees and plants, swimming in the icy cold water, being away from people, disappearing - often brings relief, but it’s not just nature itself that heals and soothes us. In nature, there are no social expectations, no roles, no norms. There are no names, no pronouns, no right ways to behave. Nature offers freedom - from performance, from rules. It allows space to be who we are. Who we want to be. Who we are becoming. Who we imagine ourselves to be. A man, a woman, a person, a living body. Alone and in tune with oneself. No one needs to call a name and it’s enough to just be.
The exhibition is a community-based, non-hierarchical event, taking place on August 29th (exact location TBA).
Open Call for the participants is open till August 1st !
SCREENING NOW
Bi-weekly streaming of the enchanting films from our festival in 2024.
Shine bright (like a worm)
By Camille Belmin in collaboration with Janina Weißengruber (2024)
Mainstream Western culture is saturated with an aesthetic of gloss and shininess that inherently opposes decay or dirt. The iconization of sleek bodies serves as a tool to attract attention and sell mass-produced consumer goods, holding promises of success and happiness.
What if living processes such as composting were idolized instead, using a language appropriate to the mass media? What if popular culture could
find an obsession with the feces of worms?
This speculative advertising campaign promotes decay and compost as critical components of life on earth - a rather obscure process for urbanized societies that should be brought back to the center of our attention. What are the potentialities and limitations of the language of capital to promote social and ecological transformation? Can the tools of aesthetic enchantment and the visual logic of selling be used in a progressive way to foster greater harmony and equality between different life forms?
Still from Shine bright (like a worm) (2024).