LÉONIE VON SALDERN

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Beetle Convicted after Spruce Found Dead
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Beetle Convicted after Spruce Found Dead (2023)

“Beetle Convicted after Spruce Found Dead” (2024) is an investigative research paper by Léonie von Saldern examining the greatest ever witnessed biologically caused loss of forest in German history, seemingly caused by an overpopulation of bark beetles. However, it goes back to climate change, planting of spruce monocultures, war reparations, political decisions, and eventually humans and their neglect and ignorance towards nature.

The forest is transformed into a factory, with the tree being the product – a product prone to diseases and natural events, such as the bark beetle infestation. The paper constructs the case of the spruce tree and its apparent enemy: the bark beetle. It sheds fresh insights into its complexity, underscoring humans’ mechanisation and commodification of nature that emphasise the tension between natural landscapes and industry.

The paper is available at Tique in Antwerp, Belgium

Beetle Convicted after Spruce Found Dead (2023)

Beetle Convicted after Spruce Found Dead (2023)

Beetle Convicted after Spruce Found Dead (2023)

Beetle Convicted after Spruce Found Dead (2023)

Photos: Anton Gost

Beetle Convicted after Spruce Found Dead (2023)

“Beetle Convicted after Spruce Found Dead” (2023) is an investigative research paper by Léonie von Saldern examining the greatest ever witnessed biologically caused loss of forest in German history, seemingly caused by an overpopulation of bark beetles. However, it goes back to climate change, planting of spruce monocultures, war reparations, political decisions, and eventually humans and their neglect and ignorance towards nature.

The forest is transformed into a factory, with the tree being the product – a product prone to diseases and natural events, such as the bark beetle infestation. The paper constructs the case of the spruce tree and its apparent enemy: the bark beetle. It sheds fresh insights into its complexity, underscoring humans’ mechanisation and commodification of nature that emphasise the tension between natural landscapes and industry.

The paper is available at Tique in Antwerp, Belgium

Beetle Convicted after Spruce Found Dead (2023)

Beetle Convicted after Spruce Found Dead (2023)

Beetle Convicted after Spruce Found Dead (2023)

Beetle Convicted after Spruce Found Dead (2023)

Photos: Anton Gost