The title of this video piece, Wo fass ich dich, unendliche Natur? (How Can I Grasp You, Endless Nature?), is drawn from a verse in Goethe’s Faust.

The work offers a personal reading of Faust as a quintessential figure in German literature who, through tragic ambition, embodies scientific hubris and a disregard for life. This interpretation is set against the negatively contrasted footage of a contemporary coal-mining machine in Cottbus, whose relentless grasping gestures echo Faust’s desire to seize and master nature.

An off-screen female narrator whispers selected passages from the play, while the machine’s movements—shown in reverse—suggest the earth being drawn back toward its origin.

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Narrator’s voice: Regina Janssen

Sound arrangements: Scott Monteith

• Exhitited at:
• – 2011, Salon K, Berlin, Germany
• – 2012, Doomedscape (solo show), Perlini gallery, Padua, Italy