Yu Tsai-Yu

"Natural Reclamation"

Section MS9, Daryan Knoblauch

Keywords: nature

This project aims to inspire viewers to reflect on various experiences in their daily environment from a personal perspective. Through the presentation of real environments in the video, viewers can sense the limitations and retaliatory processes that nature undergoes, prompting deeper reflections on environmental issues. Simultaneously, through installation art, the audience is guided towards abstract and profound contemplation, exploring the role and impact of humans in this interaction and fostering a more profound consideration of sustainability and environmental protection. When looking at cities like London, Paris, Shenzen or Mumbai one can identify that within contemporary cities, build natural landscapes are often treated as exclusive artificial environments intentionally designed as private property. Legislative text all too often produces physical restrictions in form of fencing, setting a boundary that asks for a right of passage. This is either an entitled right, or you have broken the law, by hopping the fence, in order to experience what has been hidden. While one would assume that “nature” in forms of gardens or parks should be accessible for everyone, they become institutionalised with clear time restriction. Within urban environments in which most citizens have only a balcony if they are lucky it seems inequitable that others have huge private gardens, all for themselves, captured within walls.