Live performance Stuttgart, September 21, 2023
„Listen to bogs – see bogs“ is a live performance of light art and sound art. This format works with material beyond the tiny range of human sensory perception. Bogs are not normally audible, individual cells of peat moss are not visible. Kurt Laurenz Theinert’s visual language uses these microscope images and translates them into an aesthetic experience. Similarly, the sound of organic processes deep in bog bodies is used as source material for sound processing. Invisibility and inaudibility are transformed into perceptibility. Live measurements of climate data from the performance venue, such as CO2 and room temperature, intervene directly in the visible and audible. The audience experience and shape the processes themselves through their presence. Immersive, expansive 360-degree video installations and the quadrophonic sound structure allow the audience to immerse themselves in incomprehensible processes.

Kurt Laurenz Theinert – Light art
Kurt Holzkämper – sound art
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Eating the Earth

Sustainable Food, October 6, 2023 7 pm
Have you ever tried turf?
Indirectly, we consume it every day. Our current diet makes peatlands one of the most endangered ecosystems on earth. 95% of peatlands in Germany and 90% in Europe are fields and pastures. These dry peatlands are among the largest and most dangerous climate emitters1, while wet peatlands are among the most effective climate protection measures.
We are currently eating our earth and climate, so to speak.
At the social sculpture “Eating the Earth”, Sustainable Food Art artist Anja Fiedler will serve up edible peat as a surprising and tasty treat for the palate. Garnished with poetry and facts, the food becomes a delicious temptation and thought-provoking fare. Questions and changes of perspective arise, which can be absorbed with the food in the truest sense of the word.

Lecture with Gerald Jurasinski, Professor for Peatland Science, University Greifswald

Thursday, Oktober 19, 2023 at 7 pm at Institute Dr. Flad
„Why wet bogs are better than dry ones and what it has to do with the climate?“
Lecture by Gerald Jurasinski.

Photo Credits: Ulrike Reichart, 2023