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With Satellite Berlin – Art in collaboration presents Canadian Artist Patricia Coates during her 6 months residency in Berlin, granted by the CANADA COUNCIL for the ARTS and the Ontario Arts Council.

Her Alter-Ego Lucy Palustris ventured to Berlin via transatlantic migration. “Project Seed Vault” (random mutation) will explore transgenic, invasive and threatened species along with a whole bunch of flora and fauna specimens and 'madlab' paraphernalia raising questions of the potential repercussions of tampering with biological evolution.

Follow the developments of Patricia's work in Berlin here.

With kind support of the Embassy of Canada Berlin





















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The acorns fell below the bunker at Humboldthain.

1/23/2019

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Tending the garden

12/3/2018

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The Berlin Wall Memorial, Bernauer Strasse
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From the natureculture series. Hunting for specimens on the way to Stasi Prison.

11/22/2018

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© Nora Novak
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Military macaw (Ara militaris). Current Conservation status: Vulnerable; population decreasing.

11/20/2018

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"As we should all be aware, for the first time in history, humans are now poised to destroy the prospects for decent existence for much of life. "

Noam Chomsky.

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Field Study: Fusing past crisis with current ones at sites of trauma in Berlin.

Collecting Horse-Chestnuts (Aesculus hippocastanum); Current Conservation status: Near Threatened. At the Berlin Wall.
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At the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.

A Military macaw's head torn from a mounted specimen during the allied air raids on Berlin. Almost all mounted macaws of the museum were lost when the building was hit by a grenade in World War II. Today, the Brazilian Cerrado Savannah, a rich habitat for macaw species is being destroyed for soybean (sojabohnen) crops used mainly for meat production (pig feed). Germany is one of Brazil's top importers of soybean.
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November 16th, 2018

11/16/2018

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Stasi Prison: Fecundity and death, care and violence are set against each other to create a psychic tension within Lucy Palustris, the artist’s alter-ego. The work probes issues of the Anthropocene while creeping into the physiological landscape of the persona. Lucy, a solitary woman, manifests a conflicted relationship with the living world.

Is she an agency of care, a de-stabilizing force, or a menacing presence?

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Filming: Stasi Prison with Isabelle Duchêne, © Isabelle Duchêne
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beauty and brutality

10/26/2018

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In Berlin, Lucy explores the beauty and brutality of a degraded landscape while contemplating our transient existence within it. A call for restitution plays out like a Sisyphean gesture. Fecundity and death, care and violence are set against each other to create a psychic tension. Remnants of the wall set the scene probing issues of the Anthropocene while creeping into the physiological landscape of Lucy - a solitary woman who manifests a conflicted relationship with the living world. Is she an agency of care, or a menacing presence? A tragic-comedic tone permeates her actions and costume. Her work seems tenacious yet quixotic. Is Lucy (or is of art itself) a futile intervention or a necessary resistance? Perhaps there are bits of Lucy in all of us -- in our complicity and in our resilience.
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Gathering nettles (Urtica dioica)
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That universal reason, practical or ethical, that determinism, those categories that explain everything are enough to make a decent man laugh.  

Albert Camus

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Field study: A decommissioned farm west of Berlin.

10/18/2018

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Sojabohnen, Schweinefleisch und eine Vogelscheuche

In Canada, the idea of creating and working with seeds came about because I’d been thinking about crops and seeds that had been nurtured over millennia, but were now being patented by global conglomerates, In Germany, an adventure to the countryside expanded thoughts on sustainability, end times, performance and film.

Research: Germany, Arable Land, the Amazon Basin:

Every German uses approximately 229 square meters of soybean farmland for his or her own meat consumption.Meat production is directly related to habitat destruction (and loss of biodiversity) in Central and South America and results in the acceleration of climate change. The Amazon rainforest is one of the largest carbon sinks on earth and the evaporation of enormous quantities of water (evapo-transpiration) has a global cooling effect.
Brazil is the world’s largest exporter of soybeans with more than 22 million hectares of arable land. Many parts of the Brazilian Cerrado -- one of the most species rich savannas in the world --is now intensively farmed for soya, leading to the destruction of at least half of the Cerrado. Much of what is grown in the Cerrado is exported to Germany, where it ends up in the feeding troughs of animals raised for meat production. Pork is the most popular meat in Germany. Soy is also found in tofu, chocolate, printing dye, bio-fuel, cosmetic products and medicine.
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Sojabohnen (Soybean)  — at Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (museum for natural history)
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Decommissioned animal stable. Two hours west of Berlin.
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A clownish and rather slatternly scarecrow. Rural Germany.
Photo © Nora Novak

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October 18th, 2018

10/18/2018

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Lucy is starting to collect specimens where the wall once stood. Summer, 2018.
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