Page 14 - you dream come true

The Black Lake | Collective Action by Egotec
Two-Channel Video Projection, 32 minutes.
During the famous Feel Festival in August 2019 at the Bergheider See in Lausitz which attracted 30,000 people, visitors were asked to empty the lake. The Bergheider See is an arti cial lake which was created in a former coal mine. For the duration of the festival, each visitor received a 15-litre watering can, which, multiplied by 30,000, is the precise amount of water the lake contains. Visitors poured the water they collected on the sand dunes that surround the lake. Trees started to grow. The lake became a black hole, uncover- ing the layer of coal underneath the water.
The anonymous art collective Egotec is internationally renowned for its radical invasive land art. After a collective grilling on top of a dying volcano and collectively licking away a melting Icelandic glacier, their current project in Germany aims to arti cially reverse the post-industrial rewilding process happening in Lausitz. As in all their projects, they also aim to shift the hybrid border between nature and culture on a gigantic scale.