Due to climate change and century-long monoculture plantings, European forests are in despair. Trees are dying, and the ecology is changing at a rapid speed, which also affects the acoustic sphere – the forests are turning more and more silent.
A Forest Lament is a sound performance in which
the sonic sphere of a forest is re-created with
hunting instruments that imitate different animal
calls that are used by hunters to lure animals
closer to the respective hunter’s hideout. Most of
the hunting instruments imitate animal calls out
of fear or aggression.
Deceptive sounds that tell stories about power relations in human-more-than-human interactions, false European forest imaginations and ecological grief.
Performed at Botanical Garden Gent and AIL
Vienna
2023/24
Nele Moeller 