A case study on field recordings of the “absence” of a large section of trees that had recently been removed from the site and installed in the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, as part of the gallery’s current exhibition

In early October 2014, I traveled to a forest plantation in Mecklenburg, in the north of Germany and west of Rostock, to make field recordings of the “absence” of a large section of trees that had recently been removed from the site and installed in the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, as part of the gallery’s current exhibition.