Using the artist's own eye as departure point, the diptych Belladonna and eye is part of a larger work which explores the relation between the metabolism of the vegetal kingdom and human vision. It shows how the sense of sight, like all senses, is embodied in the materiality of digestion: how sight is made and affected by the same molecules of plants.

Wietske Maas and Matteo Pasquinelli in collaboration with sound artist Trevor Mathison (Dubmorphology) present and invite you to the Berlin declaration of the Manifesto of Urban Cannibalism.

The Berliner Steinwein is a telluric brew percolating through the strata of minerals, sand and concretions of bricks that constitute the urban skeleton of Berlin. The Berliner Steinwein reverses the common habit of filtering and distilling, recomposing the fertile impurity of water and its promiscuity with soil, recognising the fellowship of all Berlin water with its ground.

O.M. Ungers, Morphologie. City Metaphors,Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, Köln, 1. Auflage 1982, 2. Auflage 2011

The pea-like ripe linden nutlets of the linden (lime) tree Tilia x europaea, or other tilia species can be roasted and ground to a powder to make an instant coffee substitute, or even finer as a nutty flour for cakes, or eaten, roasted as they are

Wietske Maas & Matteo Pasquinelli, “The City Devouring Itself: Urbanibalism in Times of World Wars, Insurgent Communes and Biopolitical Sieges”, in: J. Seijdel and L. Melis (eds), Open #18: 2030 - War Zone Amsterdam, Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2009

Herbert Sukopp, "The City as a Subject for Ecological Research" originally published in German in 1973 translated into English in Urban Ecology: an international perspective on the interactions between humans and nature, Springer, 2008

Herbet Sukopp, On the early history of urban ecology in Europe, Institute of Ecology, Technical University Berlin, 2002

Learning the art of hunting and a crash course in Dutch wildlife management on culling the surplus of swine and deer.