BUSK

Power Plant, Kunsthalle Nord, Aalborg

2018

Part human, part tree, the liminal being in Stella Geppert’s video BUSK appears to have no other purpose than to charge through the empty rooms of the abandoned building – one of the largest coal-fired power plants in Denmark “Nordjyllandsvaerket”. This alone is a provocation in relation to an architecture once constructed for maximum functionality and productivity. That the tree-clad spectre haunting the industrial complex also displays strong signs of anger and confusion adds further insult to injury–such states of mind are clearly at odds with the cultural narrative and ideology of rationality. (Lisa Rosendahl: Aalborg, 2018)