„White Stripes and Tensions“

The starting point of this project was a series of palaeoecological drillings in the garden of the art pavilion, which revealed two hundred years of earth and life at this specific site. Archival material from the city of Lucerne complemented these traces, intertwining geological and historical layers. Over the course of the exhibition, the participating artists developed a process-oriented fabric of sculptural, medial and performative works, in which dance, music, science and visual art intersected.

Olivia Wiederkehr’s contribution White Stripes and Tensions stretched white industrial bands from within the garden across the pavilion’s roof to the front of the property. The pavilion appeared bound, anchored, held within the garden and its temporal strata. The tension points linked drill holes, roof surfaces and historical markers, weaving past and present into a visible structure of forces.

In the lecture performance Boundaries, Oaks, Lines Wiederkehr continued this inquiry in performative form. Its starting point was a four-hundred-year-old boundary oak, planted as a marker of territorial divisions. Accompanied by a sound track that narrated and questioned, she gradually released the bands of her installation. What emerged was a fleeting tapestry of movement, sound and material that entangled performer, audience and site in a shared reflection on boundaries, spaces and their philosophical dimensions.