The Forest
Day 1 | The Age of Man
The impact of humanity on nature is dramatic, we treat it as a resource and engineer it to meet our needs.
Some believe that we are living in a new geological era, the Anthropocene - the age of man, in which humans not only influence the climate and life on Earth but also redefine their place in relation to nature, conservation, vocation, and responsibility.
As we learn how to walk in this new era we created, we are faced with a complex process that requires personal and social responsibility. We need to take a new look at the strength of nature’s response to our intervention, and our approach to this counter-reaction.
Installation
With the desire to illustrate in real-time the changes and disruptions that every human action produces in nature - the floor of the space was covered with soft clay and a video of a forest filmed outside of Amsterdam a few days earlier was projected on a large screen.
The visitors were invited to take off their shoes and enter barefoot on the clay floor.
Motion sensors, cameras, and microphones were placed in the space and picked up the movements of the visitors and disrupted the images and the sound according to the intensity of the movements.
The sound intensified and weakened according to the voices in the space, and the images disintegrated from a pastoral forest landscape into digital waste.