gallery / Nikolskoer Landpartie
where / BERLIN, GERMANY
when / October 5-28
artists / Lumir Hladik / Milan Knížák / Geoffrey Hendricks - Carlos Ginzburg - Eugen Blume, Erhard Monden - Fina Miralles- Vladimír Havlík - Yoko Ono - Rainer Maria Matysik - Gutai - Villem Jahu - Gorgona - ANK ‘64 SOUP”69 - Carolee Schneemann- Fina Miralles - ARTPROSPEKT P.O.P - Petr Štembera - Margita Titlová Ylovsky - OHO/David Nez - Kishio Suga - Jiří Valoch - Vladimír Havlík- OHO/Marko Pogacnik - OHO/Milenko Matanovic - Eberhard Goschel - Bard Breivik - Pécsi Mühely - Robert Watts - Collective Actions, Library - Mieko Shiomi - Vadim Zakharov - Yoko Ono - Wolfgang Biederman, Michael Morgner - Alexander Battista Illić & Ivana Keser, Tomislav Gotovac - Jana Želibská - Allan Kaprow - Bengt af Klintberg -Dezider Tóth - Carlos Ginzburg - Cecylia Malik - Wolfgang Henne, Michael Kunert, Steffen Volmer - Clara Mosch - Gordon-Matta Clark
curators / Petra Stegmann
Anonymous remained anonymous
Trees played a huge role in my life. Some of them were wise and pensive; weeping willows, practical and useful; fruit trees, challenging; pine trees, I used to climb (Mowgli style) in our garden. I knew them intimately, and I can still see them in my mind 45 years later. What about the rest of them? Trillions of anonymous trees make up a magic and mysterious entity: a forest – a lot of anonymous trees living together.
I decided to “experience” one of these insignificant trees. I selected a site where open fields formed a circle around a forest and I started walking towards it. When I was about 100 m away from its edge, I closed my eyes and kept walking until I was able to single out, by touch, a tree and hugged it. I turned around and walked away from the forest and kept my eyes shut until I felt that I was far enough from my “selected tree” in order not to be able to identify it ever again. Indeed, I looked back and all I saw was a forest.
Action
Location – Úvaly near Prague, Czech Republic
1977
