Mother-Burn

Mario Asef & Kirstin Burckhardt

Info: Mother-Burn is the second video of a trilogy by the artist-couple Asef‑Burckhardt. It was filmed on-site in the burned remains of a redwood tree grove in the ecologically avant‑garde architecture project The Sea Ranch in Northern California. Based on extensive periods of research there, Asef‑Burckhardt present their videos, drawings, paintings, performances, sound pieces, photographs and poems created on site and in Berlin. Consisting of multimedia works, their project is continuously expanding and shown in changing settings at international exhibition venues.​ Against the acute backdrop of the global environmental crisis, new anthropological questions such as What must architecture connect today? and What must love achieve today? are raised and artistically explored in close relation to the real topography of The Sea Ranch. Situated north of San Francisco, The Sea Ranch is a roughly 10‑mile strip of coastline with clustered residential buildings integrated into the sharp cliffs of the Pacific. (…)