The Commons - Die Allmende

Abstract

This research is in the fields of aesthetics, cartography and environmental change. A series of drone photographs, text, and a short film showing alternately on 4 separate screens around the exhibition space. Shot across continents over a year of the pandemic, this series of images, explores the contemporary notion of ‘die Allmende’, or the commons. Two vastly contrasting sites at the edge of their altitudinal and environmental extremes were chosen; the Aletsch Glacier in Switzerland and the southern shores of the Dead Sea in Israel and Jordan. Through the diverse media of text, cartography, (aerial) photography and film (6 minutes), an insight and context to their parallel and distinct evolution is documented and contrasted

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