SAVE THE FUTURE 2021: BIODIVERSITY IS OUR LIFE INSURANCE
In August, the SAVE THE FUTURE 2021 festival will show performative and interdisciplinary projects under the motto BIODIVERSITY IS OUR LIFE INSURANCE , which invite you to directly deal with the topic of biodiversity.
To do this, we go to the heart of the city, to new places to be discovered that tell of the forgotten history of Berlin as the most important urban industrial area at the beginning of the 20th century: The Reinbeckhallen and the SPREEHALLE Berlin , industrial ruins in Oberschöneweide on the banks of the Spree, the by artists like Jorinde Voigt or Olafur Eliasson, as well as the legendary, once illegal Club Ritter Butzke in Kreuzberg. Here, between these stations, a course of different formats is created that, in an unusual and surprising way, sensitizes us to the fact that we share the earth and its resources with all living beings.
In the Spreehallen, viewers immerse themselves in the “ Inside Tumucumaque ” installation by the Interactive Media Foundation using VR glasses in the Amazons and experience the world in a spectacular way from the point of view of the species that live there: How does it feel like a bat through to fly the night or to lie in wait like a black caiman for its prey?
In the Reinbeckhallen, the installation “ Para Social ” by the visual artist Christoph Faulhaber uses 80 oversized, 3 meter high balls to deal with the question of expansion, proximity and distance. The audience experiences first hand the effects of territorial claims and increasingly scarce living space.
In the Ritter Butzke, the globally successful techno DJ and biologist Dominik Eulberg, together with the nightingale and citizen science expert Dr. Kim Mortega (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin) and the insect specialist Thomas Hörren (aka “Totholz-Thomas”) organized an open-air “biodiversity show” . Minimal sounds, live lectures, insect projections by macro photographer Thorben Danke and film recordings by award-winning nature filmmaker Jan Haft take the audience into the world of biodiversity. The evening culminates in a sonorous chill-out, a live set in the listed courtyard of the Ritter Butzke, in which we celebrate the greatest artist of all: nature!