This five-part intervention created by the duo Serotonin, is a fictional expeditionary tale, narrated by Bernhard Schütz:
The year is 1884. The recently established German nation is struggling to gain recognition and a prominent place on a map of the world. The setting is the Tiergarten park in Berlin, where the crown prince grants a highly unofficial audience, and a cave in the future colony of Deutsch-Südwestafrika. Inspired by the levitation of a floating virgin presented in a variety show at the city’s Wintergarten venue, the young van Berg initially dreams of “an imperial fleet in the ocean of heaven”, but ultimately, thanks to a chain of coincidences to do with complex political interests of the time, becomes the leader of an expedition to Afrika.
International conference launched by 'Art/Nature: Artistic Interventions at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin', a pilot project in cooperation with the German Federal Cultural Foundation.