PostsovkhoZ 2 / Strata
9- 18/ 08 2002, Mooste

Estonia is certainly not the only place in the world where people and things could not develop naturally along normal lines. Traditions have been interrupted, and because of constant change and reshapings no one remembers what was before. All the same, there are some places where the conditions of yesteryear can still be seen, and where people still remember past times. Strata as evident in every place, time or activity as in the centre of the Mooste manor estate. The question of whether it is at all necessary to remember past strata has attracted the attention of renowned researchers of landscape and the environment. The St. Petersburg thinker, Alexei Bassenko, believed that it was not a matter of preserving the disappearing past, but, rather, of not being silent, and of marking its passing. Bassenko compared this to cosmetics used on dead people, which can be interpreted as information containing and continuing the memory of previous layers.
In a course of a week artists lived in a hot estonian august, watched the night sky, swam on an alternative way (on full clothes) and did many other daylight bearing and nonbearing things. Many other things took place as well: filmprogram (Estonian documentaries and artistic films), lectures on a theme of landscapes in a time, orientation on objects created during the week and meat- jelly evening with sound- experiments.

Lecturers
Kalle Mälberg Landscape 1000 years ago. About the landscape reconstruction project at Lämmijärve Nature Park
Hannes Palang Landscapes in a time