SCORE OF UNDERESTIMATED PROPERTIES

Site-specific installation (23-channel sound, video, photography) / 2025

In 'Score of Underestimated Properties', i continue my exploration of land as a human construct. The installation, developed in collaboration with musician and engineer Daniel Jessen, examines the socio-political and economic conditions that determine the ownership, allocation and classification of land. Grounded in Braunschweig's urban landscape, the project focuses on all plots of land smaller than 10 square metres.

These scattered fragments challenge conventional notions of land use and power. The approximately 2,800 'residual territories' function as absurd remnants. They reveal the reduction of land to an object-like entity defined by geometric and numerical attributes in land registers and geodatabases. By highlighting their marginality, i invited to rethink land beyond institutional claims of ownership. Instead, i emphasises its fluid character, adaptable and open to reinterpretation.

These fragments are visualised in an unfolded 3d-map-installation. The figures are drawn in chalk on a scale of 1:2000. The wooden map segments act as loudspeakers playing a compositional soundscape derived from the attributes of the geodata; this dual representation of mapping and sound transforms the land into a multi-sensory experience and adds another layer to the prevailing systems of land control and classification.

Through this experimental approach, Score of Underestimated Properties questions the commodification of land and encourages the viewer to consider the potential of these often overlooked fragments. By revealing the constructed nature of land, the project creates space for new narratives of imagination, transformation and reclamation.