AMERICAN CORN BELT
After focussing on corn in DAMME and CORNFELD, both photographed in Lower-Saxony, Germany, which is an area of endelss cornfields. This landscape become a cliché for the destruction by industrial food production. Damme became an emblem for the monocultural exploitation of land. This project started as a biographical story, has to be continued together with global aspects.
- Where are the biggest fields in the world?
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Where and when did these industries started and where will it end?
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Whats the influense of science for the development?
CORN BELT Video Collage by Heidi Specker and Kristina Cyan, 2023
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Meike Behm holding Abitreff during the finissage of DAMME, Kunsthalle Lingen 2022
Abitreff are 4 portraits of former classmates who stayed in Damme itself or around this area. The pictures are a look in the mirror, in which the photographer recognizes herself, her past and her heritage. It is amazing that after 40 years, there is still a solidarity and bonding, simply based on the fact that all were shaped by the same argricultural landscape.
Kunsthalle Lingen, Lingen, DE
11 Dec 2021 - 6 Mar 2022
Silk screen of the copperplate print Das Pflanzenreich (Hausschatz des Wissens, 1895)
Tatjana Doll, 2021
Kommunale Galerie Berlin, 2021
Still from video DAMME Landstrasse Glückauf, 2022