Brache, 2017

Cultural Seeding was an exchange project funded by Erasmus between people from Brandenburg/Germany and Croatia which met in a small town in Croatia and Brandenburg to exchange and explore artistically the wasteland.

In the vernacular, brownfields are places that are deserted and empty of use. Land that lies between a former and a possible or future use. Empty spaces, edges, transition zones, no-man's land - brownfields are spaces in between times. Brownfields are places that are on pause, whose old use no longer exists, while a new one does not yet. Places empty of use that are subject to the momentum of decay of cultural substance and simultaneous growth of natural substance. But the important thing here is the idea that something will come again after this break.

At some point it has to stop being a wasteland again, otherwise it wouldn't be a wasteland.

(Jochen Becker)

But you can go one step further. Fallow land refers to breaking points in history. In the course of economic and political changes in recent decades, they are becoming an increasingly common phenomenon of everyday life.


Location: Berlin
Workshop and Performance Preparation: Natalie Riedelsheimer and Nora Haakh

Location: Berlin
Workshop and Performance Preparation: Natalie Riedelsheimer and Nora Haakh

Cultural Seeding was an exchange project funded by Erasmus between people from Brandenburg/Germany and Croatia which met in a small town in Croatia and Brandenburg to exchange and explore artistically the wasteland.

In the vernacular, brownfields are places that are deserted and empty of use. Land that lies between a former and a possible or future use. Empty spaces, edges, transition zones, no-man's land - brownfields are spaces in between times. Brownfields are places that are on pause, whose old use no longer exists, while a new one does not yet. Places empty of use that are subject to the momentum of decay of cultural substance and simultaneous growth of natural substance. But the important thing here is the idea that something will come again after this break.

At some point it has to stop being a wasteland again, otherwise it wouldn't be a wasteland.

(Jochen Becker)

But you can go one step further. Fallow land refers to breaking points in history. In the course of economic and political changes in recent decades, they are becoming an increasingly common phenomenon of everyday life.


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