Residency | EcoArtLab mLAB HELVETAS Ballenberg:

The residency, organized by EcoArtLab and mLAB in collaboration with HELVETAS and Ballenberg, is in full motion.

With "Dialogue as a means to understanding and empathy", Alisha Dutt Islam, Nora Gailer and Christa Hermann want to explore intergenerational dialog as a tool for empathy, change and resistance. To this end, they conduct conversations during their field trips to Lake Toma, Obersaxen and the Ganges Delta. The residents therefore bring together two geographical points that are affected differently by climate change:
The Swiss Alps, Europe's freshwater reservoir, whose rivers reach the North Sea, the Mediterranean and the Black Sea - threatened by melting glaciers and drought. And the Sundarbans in the Ganges Delta, the largest mangrove forests in the world - threatened by recurring cyclones and flooding. In this way, the residents weave a fascinating web of generational knwoledge and places from the perspectives of the beginning and the end of a river.

In August, this web will be slowly embedded into the themed trail "on the move across the world" at the Ballenberg Open-Air Museum using soil as an entity of common ground. The installation will take shape at the dwelling of Matten before becoming part of the exhibition as from September 7. Stay tuned for further Updates! 

Immages: Terravibe