When Wetlands and Heritage Converse
Wetlands emerge where water encounters land. Activists recording endangered migratory bird sounds in mudflats, people dancing bare feet in wetlands, soil scientists sticking tools in the peat, farmers draining peatlands for agriculture, artists putting their hands in marshes.
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Teresa Pereda: Working on Land Prints Series.
Laurentiu Constantin vermisst eine Bodenprobe in Bieselfließ, Deutschland, 2024
MUDDY MEASURES. When Wetlands and Heritage Converse, is a project that explores how heritage perspectives reshape the understanding of wetlands and, in turn, how wetlands influence the way people think about heritage.
The phrase “muddy measures” is inherently contradictory. Measurements seek to make something comprehensible and comparable, often for the purpose of research, but also for exploitation or control. However, the term “muddy” evokes opacity and ambiguity.
Combining the two terms allows to explore the paradoxes that emerge from singular understandings of these particular ecosystems, to trace different ways of relating to wetlands over time, and to discuss how varied measurement methods have been used to different ends.
These paradoxes and questions echo throughout three specific case studies in Berlin-Brandenburg, Patagonia, and Korea’s west coast, the accompanying programme, as well as in monthly changing guest exhibitions, dedicated to Berlin-based research projects, including projects by Charlett Wenig (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces) in April, Iva Rešetar and Léa Perraudin (Matters of Activity) in May, and Magdalena Buchczyk (Humboldt University of Berlin) in June.
MUDDY MEASURES is a collaborative project initiated by inherit. heritage in transformation and developed in conversation with wetlands researchers, artists, curators, and environmental activists across geographies and times.
Curated by Yoonha Kim, Juliana Robles de la Pava, Margareta von Oswald
Contributors:
Anahí Herrera Cano (CONICET-UBA), Ayelen Fiori (Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco), Charlett Wenig (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces), Daniel Hengst, Dongpil Oh, Seongsil Lee and Seungjun Oh (Saemangeum Citizen Ecological Investigation Group), Doohee Oh (Peace Wind), Eugenia Milagros (Stratigraphy Group Centro Materia, CONICET), Eugenia Tomasini and Milagros Córdova (Centro MATERIA IIAC-UNTREF), Yun Hwang, Iva Rešetar (Matters of Activity), Juana del Carmen Aigo (INIBIOMA-CONICET), Jutta Zeitz (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Laurentiu Constantin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Léa Perraudin (Matters of Activity), Lucia Braemer (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Lucy Norris (Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin), Magdalena Buchczyk (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Moorarchiv (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Paula Vogt (University of Potsdam), Rosa Blens (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Saemangeum Citizen Ecological Investigation Group, and Teresa Pereda.
