Transmission Wood
2018
Curators Sarah Dorkenwald and Karianne Fogelberg from UnDesignUnit explore the multifaceted relationships between humans and nature in the city and its surrounding areas. They bring together selected contemporary positions from design, art and architecture that focus on different forms of coexistence. In doing so, they incorporate the Rathausgalerie with its former use as a cashier's hall for fees between the city and its citizens. Where payments to the city were once made, they invite reflection on the question: ‘What is nature worth to me?’
In the context of climate change and biodiversity, novel fee models can be playfully conceived and discussed.
Two tree antennas, a drawing and a documentary photo of her 2018 performance and exhibition ‘Transmission Wood’ in Paris by Judith Egger are on display.
What connections do we consciously maintain with nature, and which ones elude our knowledge and classification?
What connections do we consciously maintain with nature, and which ones elude our knowledge and classification? In her work, artist Judith Egger imagines situations in which we encounter the wild and connect with it. The wild takes on various forms and is also part of ourselves. The antennas and the sonotone are imaginary instruments from her work ‘Transmission Wood’. They tell of her nocturnal attempt to make contact with the trees in the surrounding forests in the middle of Paris and receive messages.
Transmission Wood
Antennas, 2025, wood, wax, string, 250x110cm;
Sonotone, 2025, pencil, 30x40 cm;
Transmission Wood, antenna test in Paris for the performance of the same name, 2018, photo.
Photography: Ramuntcho Matta
In 2018, Judith Egger was invited by Ramuntcho Matta to his project space SometimeStudio in Paris.
This resulted in a performance, a video and an exhibition of the same name.