Ge(ssenwiese) K(anigsberg), Library for radioactive afterlife

was edited by Cassandra Edlefsen Lasch, designed by Alix Bouteleux and published by Spector Books in 2020

Gessenwiese and Kanigsberg form part of a landscape that has been in a process of constant change since 1946. The overburden from the mining industry created radioactive spoil heaps and lakes that are being rehabilitated by various means: plants growing on Gessenwiese accumulate contaminants from the soil. Textiles are used to slowly dry out the lakes and bind the radioactive dust. The banked mounds are returned to the earth bit by bit. These continual changes to the volumes in the landscape and their afterlife are the conceptual starting point for G(essenwiese) K(anigsberg). In recent years, Susanne Kriemann has developed a radically expanded idea of photography that investigates new systems for registering events and geological periods.

  • Editor
    Cassandra Edlefsen Lasch
  • Designer
    Alix Linn Bouteleux
  • Publisher
    Spector Books
  • Authors
    Eva Wilson, Grit Ruhland, Susanne Kriemann, Bergit Arends, Hartmut Rosa
  • Date
    2020
  • Pages
    196, insert: 2 dried leaves
  • ISBN
    9783959053365