For the Garage festival 09 Free
Soil have conducted a site specific research project
investigating the environment of the Baltic Sea. We created an alternative
archive of political and historical events that have
occurred in the Baltic Sea region, especially Stralsund and
linked these with the sea’s
responses.
The impact of industrialization, population growth and political
changes has resulted in
climatic and environmental changes recorded in the sea. Nature retaliates by
creating new forms, one of the most significant being the
spread and growth of toxic
Blue Green Algae or “phytoplankton”.
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Drawing
of William Lindley, the designer of the first
sewer system in Stralsund. Algae on paper. |
