Screen City Biennial

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a small flashback to “Capture” (2022) on view at the Archenhold Observatory in Berlin as part of the 2022 . The film was projected in a huge auditorium, the “Einstein Hall.” In this film work cherries play the role of elementary particles which are nonetheless colorless and tasteless. The film cites Chanda Prescod-Weinstein who, in “The Disordered Cosmos,” wrote: “Before Einstein’s equation and neutron stars comes sustenance. Eating.” Big thank you to and .saracino. With 16mm cinematography by , narration by and music by , 16mm camera with support by .rentals.amsterdam and all production by and thank you and .berlin

Final days to experience To See Without Man (2022) by Viktor Pedersen with Ingrid K. Bjørnaali at the Solar Physical Cabinet, Archenhold Observatory in Berlin

To See Without Man is a poetic attempt to make contact with the vegetal mind, in an effort to understand the plants’ modes of sensing their surroundings. Can mind-expanding symbiosis with plants lead us to a broader understanding of their ways of seeing, communicating, and remembering? Can the leaf as an energy-processing surface provide a practical tool to rethink extractive practices, those that are leading to an anthropogenic depletion of resources? Can photosynthesis provide a speculative framework to imagine a future in which the human body has learned to process starlight and has partly become vegetal?

Commissioned by Screen City Biennial
Supported by the Norwegian Embassy in Berlin / Norwegische Botschaft in Berlin

Photo by Daniela Arriado
Still images: To See Without Man by Viktor Pedersen with Ingrid K. Bjørnaali