exit erdbeer-klee

What does it mean, this “extinction of species”? We hear about it, we are alarmed by it, and we forget about it. They tell us that every system can absorb losses up to a critical threshold. That the process then becomes irreversible. In the alluvial forest of Leipzig, as in other places too, hundreds of plants are vanishing. The poetic video exit erdbeerklee (poem by Ulrike Draesner, images by Stefan Harder) uses the components of words and images, i.e. letters and pixels, to depict this form of disappearance as a sensory experience. We are seeing first-hand how the threshold of tolerance is shifting – how the system is collapsing.