Since years, anthropologists have been emphasizing that the root of our ecological crisis can be found in how we perceive and act upon the world. For creating a decisive change, we would have to start by ourselves. With our performance, we would like to contribute to such a change, especially through modes of sensing and listening to an environment.

In the site-specific performance-installation Minimal Green, the contested “Schlossplatz” in Berlin-Mitte served as a basis for exploring issues around the climate crisis and human’s (dis)connection with nature. Known at that time for a public debate whether the former Castle from the 15^th century should be rebuilt or not (which eventually happened), the artists targeted this square rather as an open green field than another monumental real estate project (where nowadays the Humboldt Forum is located. By demarcating a sort of “mobile square” within the open field, the artists created a series of actions inspired by three objects from farming – spade, bucket and watering can – to offer the spectators and passersby a poetic and “green” image of an urban space in a changing process.

Event Dates: 14.05 & 28.06.11, Month of Performance Art Berlin; 06.06.2011, Participation at the „Überlebenskunst-Club“ Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, GE

Credits: Concept and Performance: Bettina Wagner, Juliana Piquero & Nathalie S. Fari / Music: Thomas Perztel / Documentation: Catalina Fernandez / Photos event: a.r.laub