Marta Popivoda's ongoing collaboration with dramaturge Ana Vujanović combines landscape dramaturgy, feminist storytelling, and antifascist memory. This research takes a case study from a residency in West Cork, Ireland – said to be home since the 1960s and 70s to a lesbian and queer community, some of whom arrived seeking refuge during the Cold War – studying its relationship to land alongside the reproductive biology of mosses, among the earliest plants to move from water to land.
The project applies these insights to Berlin-Brandenburg, where far-right groups have used ‘blood and soil’, a Nazi-era ideology linking race and land, to appropriate environmentalism. The research uses thermal imaging – a tool normally used in agriculture – to observe the landscape in new ways, alongside a moss garden built as both a research site and an installation.
Marta Popivoda is a filmmaker, artist, and researcher living and working between Berlin and Belgrade.
