Scribble Critter

The video work «Scribble Critter» was created for the exhibition 'Hidden Flowers Bloom Most Beautifully' in Appenzell and Shetland. The curator's concept was an exchange with a person from the other place. Each participating artist was asked to reflect on the theme of rurality in dialogue with their counterpart. My partner was Roxane Permar professor and programme leader of Art and Social Practice, instrumental in creating the fully online MA art and social practice program, with whom I have been in contact since my first stay in Shetland in 2016.
In the course of rapid landscape changes, large wind farms are being built not only in Shetland but also in Switzerland and elsewhere. We both referred almost simultaneously to the book «The Body in Pain» by Elaine Scarry (1988) and began to reread the introduction. Referring to the theme of landscape and pain, we reflected on the human impact of wind farms on on flora, fauna and people, using text, quotes and image-making. Our exchange resulted in the joint script «Exchange: Roxane Permar and Dorothea Rust - VULNERABLE THOUGHTS in Peripheral Places», as well as Roxane's drawings exploring and articulating the theme of landscape in pain in the context of the Viking Energy Wind Farm (VEWF) in Shetland, UK, and my video work «Scribble Critter», created from an experience of visiting a large wind farm in Germany near the Swiss border.

Exchange: Roxane Permar and Dorothea Rust - VULNERABLE THOUGHTS in Peripheral Places