Switzerland Used to Be My Home Too
ToBE Art Gallery, Bern, SwitzerlandCurator: Aigul Ibrayeva
Solo show
ToBE Art Gallery, Bern
The exhibition entitled Switzerland Used to Be My Home Too is a story about the fragility of the world, about our common home, the fact that someday the living creatures inhabiting our planet, we can see only on the pictures taken once.
Are we living in a globalised world that is becoming more and more homogeneous? Plants, fungi and animal species are continuously decreasing. In the distant future, will only domesticated species survive? What impact does this homogenisation process have on our lives and our environment?
Used to Be My Home Too, 2021-ongoing, reflects in real-time our rich biodiversity and at the same time the continuous extinction of species and how we humans have become biodiverse agents interacting with the most fundamental processes of our Earth.
In this experiment, you fly via Google Earth continuously to the locations where observations are sent to iNaturalist.org. From RedList.org, endangered and extinct plant, fungus and animal species are automatically added, which occurred in the same country and are taxonomically most similar.
MORE AND LESS – Flying Through a Three-Dimensional Book, 2020-ongoing by Marc Lee and the Swiss author Markus Kirchhofer relates increasing human over-population to the destruction of animal habitats and the alarming extinction of species. Visitors are invited to a 3D city of constantly changing and growing urban architecture enhanced with information on population and urbanisation. The population data, which stems from the United Nations, is constantly updated. It is based on land and resident statistics from 1950, 2000 and supplemented with a future forecast to 2050. The work also provides information on species recently declared extinct, with data provided by Redlist.org. Embedded in this flow of facts are 50 haiku poems. The sound composition was created by the Iranian composer Shervin Saremi.
Exhibited Artwork
Used to Be My Home Too
Real-time cartographyThis experiment shows photos of animals, fungi and plants that are uploaded right now by unknown users to iNaturalist.org via mobile phone. On Google Earth, these are mapped at the exact location where they were photographed. In addition, taxonomically similar species that occurred in the same country and became extinct within the last 30 years are automatically added in real time via RedList.org. Used more …
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