MANIFESTO
Cayenne is an archeologist and anthropologist working on the excavation of a 21st C settlement, located on the old outskirts of the city of Berlin. Between the centuries, the site has its own diverse history, ranging from the 12th to 21st century.
Cayenne’s background is also diverse. As the documentation progresses, a connection is made. Cayenne dreams; personalities are imagined, projecting characters and protagonists from the period into scenarios. It helps with the details that are physically missing.
The S.R.S stories chronicle a non-linear journey through the discovery of a research facility and settlement located in Grunewald, Berlin, Germany.
S.R.S (Soil Remediation Studies) was part of an international soil research group and application of soil remediation. Documents show the social structure was complex and required a great deal of common unity applying the exchange and stay method of living. Living without borders, living within community, and living with work.
Founded in a crux between knowing and forgetting, the S.R.S can be understood as an alternative settlement or commune. The similarities are endless.
The degradation of soil was known throughout the world for many a year during this fraught period of unsettled divestment from reality, the common denomination seemed to place their trust in technocrats, the cult of the personality, restricted access to advancing technologies and powerful chemical industry for answers.
A one (or many) bottle solution(s) that had a profound impact on the order of things. Thing, is complex, things need time and patience to understand, to learn from. The value of time should not be measured in one’s lifetime and that is where the one bottle solution fails. It relies on profit procured in a lifetime, its benefits are touted by suits and the application left to the farmer. The consumer consumes and the consequences are as disposable as the ‘collateral damage’ afforded to the critters.
The main areas of study were certain; mycelial membranes as construction techniques, the production of terra preta, and the study of symbiotic relationships between mycorrhizal and plant root systems. Altogether a circular survival system, releasing the bonds of complex, catastrophic centralised global food, material, and energy systems.
