The dialogue took place on April 18th at 7 p.m. in the BTV Stadtforum in Innsbruck.

Each speaker selected a work from the exhibition and discusses these before and with the audience. An open dialogue between various perspectives, with music and inspired by the exhibition.

Richard Eigner

is as a composer, sound artist and percussionist. In his music he transcends the boundaries of “experimental acoustic music” and “electronica”. He is involved in numerous sonic projects, collaborating, among others, with Martin Mallaun and the writer Elisabeth R. Hager on an acoustic “archive of rare species”.

Uta Kögelsberger

lives in London and California and is professor of fine art at Newcastle University, England. Her works have been shown at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the Vincent Price Art Museum in Los Angeles and the Millard Sheets Art Center in Pomona, California, among others.

Martin Mallaun

studied zither performance at the Tyrolean State Conservatory and majored in botany at the University of Innsbruck. In addition to being a freelance musician he also teaches zither at the Tyrol Music School Association and at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz. As a botanist he has been researching the effects of climate change on the vegetation of Alpine ecosystems as part of the GLORIA research project since 2001.

Oliwia Murawska

is a senior lecturer at the Institute of Historical Sciences and European Ethnology at the University of Innsbruck. Her interest in the forest derives from her research work and her focus on posthumanist positions, in which the forest invariably plays a key role. Among the main topics of her current work are post-humanism, environmental anthropology, the Anthropocene and anthropogenic climate change. She co-publishes the Austrian Journal of Folklore (ÖZV).

Kurt Ziegner

is a forester, Head of the Forest Division of the Tyrolean Regional Government and President of the Tyrolean Forest Association (TFV). He is an expert on the “Climate Smart Mountain Forest” and is in charge of developing the Tyrolean Forest Service’s strategy for adapting the forest for climate change.