One of the results of my work at the Malt AIR residency (Denmark) was the essay “Peace in the field” where the analysis of the vocabulary describing plant invasions (and particularly the common broom, or Cytisus scoparius) turns into a conversation about displacements and xenophobia, switching from ecological and agricultural to social and political. The text, combining quotes from newspapers, the story of Danish writer Ellen Dahl and the ideas of landscape orthopaedics, explores the borderline when the domesticated becomes alien, unwanted, harmful and dangerous.
A translation of this essay from Russian into Danish is now available on my website.
