The site of the residency and festival – the area connecting Brücke-Museum and LebensWerkGemeinschaft in Berlin-Dahlem - serves as the starting point of the artistic research and creation during the residency period. The museum and workshops are located on the edge of the 777 hectares forest district “Dachsberg”, embedded in a total of 3.000 hectares of the city forest “Grunewald” in the south-west of Berlin.

When engaging with the site we want to encounter nature as both creator and destroyer and avoid describing it as an exploitable resource, helpless victim of human destruction, or caring Mother Earth. We want to discuss what constitutive role animals, plants and art play when it comes to the history(s) of domestication and cultivation, of education, of subjectification and objectification. We want to question the function and aesthetics of producing binary spaces and concepts such as nature/culture, own/foreign, will/instinct. As part of the intercultural and inclusive encounter, we question the belonging to imagined and actual territories that manifest themselves not only in the demarcation between humans and nature, but also along old and new struggles for social participation as well as the visibility and recognition of plurality in the culture industry.