Terrestrial Assemblage
Ana Alenso, Marco Barotti, Ines Doujak, Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Han Seok Hyun, Folke Köbberling, Mischa Leinkauf, Santiago Sierra, Shira Wachsmann, Clemens Wilhelm
07. 05 – 06. 06. 2021
Floating University Berlin

In the age of geo-social issues, where climate, inequality and migration are interrelated and humanity threatens to become homeless, facing a potentially uninhabitable earth in the future, paradoxically more and more enclo-sed and demarcated territories are emerging worldwide. As on the Korean peninsula, divi-ded by a militarised border for over 70 years, all over the world, even after the Cold War, areas are separated, marked out and fenced off.
In addition, geopolitical and economic upheavals and changes in climatic living conditions create new borders. In this age of global pan-demics, the border seems to have become not just an instrument of intensive surveil-lance, but a geo-political power. The desire for the “vetted” and “sanctioned” migrant is shared across species lines. It is ironic that the ecosystems in the respective regions be-nefit from these border regimes, while at the same time challenging them. Border areas are refuges for rare or endangered plants and animals and have unique species richness.

The outdoor exhibition, Terrestrial Assemblage brings together artists whose practice deals with the relationship of humans to the earth („terra“). In an „act of coming together“ (assemblage) of different artistic media and ideas on current issues of demarcation and the ever louder environmental issue, ten in-ternational artists present their site-specific works on the grounds of the Floating Univer-sity Berlin. They address the Anthropocene, Capitolocene causes of new borders and, in their artistic observations of the environment, reflect on social, biological and political bor-der shifts, and design new, hybrid, cross-species images of the future. Terrestrial Assemblage aims to be a projection surface and a space of experience for fluid counter-images and artistic fantasies beyond political and geographical borders.