heidi dumreicher
Art wakes science with a kiss
Art wakes science with a kiss, a kiss that causes both to blossom. Heidi Dumreicher explores seven theses on sustainability research to examine the shape that this cross-fertilisation takes in Im Anfang war der Blick.
Film, like science, looks into the future with an awareness of the nature of time as a process, of simultaneity and transience. Theorems of cause and effect in the natural sciences are called into question in sustainability research and suspended in film; the protagonist escapes the constraints of causality by fleeing into the two-dimensional nature of the medium itself.
In attempting to reconcile the notion of idyllic nature with human intervention in nature and the shaping of landscape, researchers and filmmakers have one thing in common: they view their world as offering scope to shape it. This opens up spaces of possibility – for both science and cinema. Whilst research on cultural landscapes emphasises however that we as individuals are always embedded in the systems surrounding us and fairly often over-estimate our own scope to influence either events or our surroundings, film breaks through these boundaries and authorises its protagonists and its audiences alike to do the impossible.
What is feasible in science and in film is however definitely located, referring to a space and a locus, a taking-place. The medium of film, just like landscape, cannot however be utilised ad infinitum. Researchers and filmmakers alike work in a team in order to discover where the boundaries lie and to move beyond these. A journey of adventure, conceived as setting off for virgin, as yet unexplored shores, breaking new ground and discovering new landscapes.
Sergio Fant l Marcy
Goldberg l Bodo Hell l Christoph
Huber l Lilli Lička l
Johannes Moser l Michael
O'Pray l Hans Schifferle
l Burghart Schmidt l
Christian Stadelmann l Mika
Taanila l Jean-Philippe Tessé
l Barbara Wurm