Udo Koloska
LISTENING TO THE WATER
Beaver Walk
Audio visual installation
The beaver had already gone extinct in Brandenburg. The new colonisation now lets it encounter waters that are connected to the Anthropocene. In the summer of 2022, for example, local newspapers reported that the Nuthe - a Brandenburg watercourse - had temporarily reversed its flow direction due to the persistent drought.
Field recordings during a speculative soundwalk along a beaver's territory form the starting point for the installation about the river and the connections, overlaps, intersections, erasures, confusions and overflows in the encounter with the carbonised world.