Berlin Wild Life

A utopic tale about co-habitation between humans and wild animals in the city of the future. Three sculptural installations show exemplary places deriving from a future where crossspecies co-habitation has become a new norm. The objects have been planned in a dialogue with animal experts and scientists and have been created with the idea of a function. Yet, it is a different perspective on the wild animal that is at the core of the work. Collaborative project with Michiko Nitta.

Exhibitions

Haus der Kulturen der Welt (2011), Haus am Waldsee/Sculpture park (2011)

www.berlinwildlife.org

Berlin Wild Life:
Spa for Fish

Fish in urban areas have to endure a lot: sports- and recreational boats, rubbish that is tossed into the floods and streamlined river banks. Its time to offer them a recreational area.


Materials:

Anodised aluminium structure, high-sea floats, fluorescent latex, acrylic, LED-lights, solar modules.

Dimensions:

app. ca. 0,50 m high x ca. 2 m long x 1,50 m wide

Berlin Wild Life:
Parasitic Architecture for Raccoons

Housing area for raccoons to be attached to existing buildings; a meta-city for this migrant animal species.


Materials:

Hot-dip galvanised steel, powder coating, pinewood poles, crow seed bombs, string.

Dimensions:

app. 3 m high x ca. 1,50 m wide x 1,50 m deep

Berlin Wild Life:
Service Crows

A meeting point to foster an alliance with the corvids and use their natural behaviour for subversive gardening strategies. Handed tasty seed-bombs with the mission to dispose of them, the crows create blooming trails in the concrete jungle. Service crows adds a new beastly side to guerilla gardening.


Materials:

Hot-dip galvanised steel, powder coating, pinewood poles, crow seed bombs, string.

Dimensions:

app. 3 m high x ca. 1,50 m wide x 1,50 m deep