Ilias Mavromanis (Sound Reportage “Interfere: Voices of Stechlin”) works as a young artist/scientist at the intersection of ecology and sound in the broadest sense. The result is a beautiful, approx. 45-minute sound report “Interfere: Voices of Stechlin”, which has already been broadcasted twice on radio (Colaboradio, RBB) and was visually accompanied for the UDK annual Rundgang. At our Sommerfest 2022 the work was presented with underwater impressions from Lake Stechlin.

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Yandeh Salllah-Muhammed is both Director of Gambian Marine and Environmental Conservation Initiative, as well as a freely working performer and artist. She also chose the Stechlinsee as a topic. As a West African woman, she opens up a completely new perspective by interconnecting a post-colonial feminist approach with an animist-west-African narration. The result is a short film that will make the beginning of a series over water.

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The Intensive Independent International Amateur Academy (IIIAA), (“Convicting Concrete”, production of a stop-motion feature) over several phases, Kasia Fudakowski and Philipp Modersohn – with the support of other guests – have worked on the role of concrete in the context of climata change. The work negotiates the legal aspects oft climate crisis and its drivers in clever narrations in a stop-motion film.

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Björn Kröger (artistic-scientific book project on the environmental history of Lake Stechlin) This work was triggered by the progressive, dramatically poor condition of Lake Stechlin in recent years. Over a period of 2 years, Björn has dealt with the role of humans in the cloudiness of Lake Stechlin. During his time at the SI, Björn expanded the countless historical documents to include many interviews with actors involved in the Stechlin. The manuscript begins with Björn’s very personal experiences, which connect him, having grown up on the Stechlin as a child, with this special body of water. Through his personal experiences, the historical facts and the perspectives from the interviews, Björn develops the question, which goes far beyond the locality and condition of the lake: How can we redefine our relationship as humans to the natural, beyond consumption, extraction and exploitation?

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Theseas Efstathopoulos („Wormship“/worm composting and „Smallest Stechlinsee“/wetland biotope)
Starting from the question of how the biological sphere of the Stechlin Institute could be improved by human intervention, Theseas has set out to work in two fields: 1. The enrichment of the soil with a vermicompost. 2. An easy-to-create and maintainable wetland to increase biodiversity. Both were worked on with special consideration of existing resources and ecological conditions.

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Robert Schnüll (Potentials of Decentralized Federated Networks) „The digital is political and thus also its underlying infrastructure – especially in the context of cultural institutions“ What was once conceived by the World Wide Web as a radically new public space – by everyone for everyone – is becoming more and more centralized and closed. Spaces that were once open are now being replaced by private platforms. Who gets what reach and what hearing? Who determines the space and the medium? At the Stechlin Institute, Robert investigates the perspectives of rural areas on the conception of a decentralized semantic data network.How could federated networks help to link rural entities to contribute to democratization? Using programming code as a tool, Robert develops a new semantics at the intersection of code and social responsibility.

Susanne Bosch (Forest = Optical Home) In view of the impending scenario that Germany will lose significant parts of its forests due to the climate crisis, Susanne asked herself the question: „What is a visual home, what makes the forest so immensely enjoyable for me, what do I associate with the forest, physically, mentally, historically, in my memories?“ And further: „What also makes forest an uncanny place, a place of mystery or hidden?“ Based on these questions, the artist offered a total of 4 nocturnal walks as „performative walks“ for those interested, which enabled an immersion in the sphere of the forest.

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