Nature-Culture Reserve Marhult
The Nature-Culture Reserve Marhult is an artistic and scientific project exploring the interplay between nature and culture. Through installations, research, and creative expressions, it creates a space where boundaries between the wild and the human-made are blurred. The project is part of Linnaeus University’s initiative for a cultural university.
The book project Nature-Culture Reserve Marhult aims to produce an in-depth anthology rooted in the art project that took place in the summer of 2023 as part of the Småland Triennial Små Land. Both the publication and the project take their point of departure from the controversial illegal waste dump in Marhult (Uppvidinge Municipality, Kronoberg County). The publication offers an artistic and nature-cultural cross-section of the many processes, practices, and events that were part of the project, while also leaving room for further reflections on our growing toxic nature-culture heritage, using Marhult as a case study—somewhere between a nature-and-culture guide and a collection of art, essays, and documentation related to the landfill.
The publication features the artists and researchers who worked with the contaminated site during the project, under the premise of polluted places as field, discourse, and material for artistic processes between preservation, remediation, and rewilding.
Timo Menke is the project owner of Nature-Culture Reserve Marhult and the originator of the collected work Nature-Culture Reserve Marhult.
Contributors: Omran Garazhian, Leila Papoli-Yazdi, Liv Nilsson Stutz, Kristoffer Palmgren, Zeenath Hasan, Åsa Ståhl, Fannie Frederikke Baden, John Sunderland, Michael Marder, Lerin/Hystad (Simon Torssell Lerin / Bettina Hvidevold Hystad), Timo Menke.
The book project is carried out in collaboration with: Arvinius+Orfeus Publishing, The Cultural University initiative, Linnaeus University Press at Linnaeus University, and the Småland Triennial.
