There will come soft rains

For thousands of years, man has tried to make natural environment fit for his use by shaping it to his needs. For several centuries, technological progress has enabled mankind to control a large part of natural environment on our planet and to transform its consisting naturalness into economic or social added value. In many places this has led to new ecological states, which carry with them not only a complete loss of biodiversity, but cause also nature to adapt and function artificially. Hydropower is part of this story of man’s use of natural resources. In recent decades, hydropower projects have undergone increasing →

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In her lecture artist and scientist Pinar Yoldas discusses her concept of "Speculative Biology".

In her practice between art and activism, Carolina Caycedo developed a corpus of works, that questioned the production and distribution of hydroelectricity, and the colonization of nature. In 2018 her work Esto no es agua, part of her research on the social and environmental effects of dams, was part of the exhibition "There Will Come Soft Rains" at basis e.V. in Frankfurt am Main.

(English version to be published soon)

(English version to be published soon)