N.Lichtig, ZIZIPHUS ZIZYPHUS (...as far back as I will remember),

sound piece, 37′37″, speaker, wallpaper, postcards and, depending on the installation, drawings, 2018–.

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Publication: Specimen — Encounters Between Art (chapter 7)

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https://hal.science/hal-05561944v1

EN
The soundpiece: a speculative monologue spoken in the voice of the plant Ziziphus zizyphus itself. Using the future tense, the plant recounts its own history — its naming, migration, and chemical properties — as it envisions a post-human world where it becomes a dominant superspecies. Between documentary and fiction, the work turns the plant’s biological memory into an act of imagination: language proliferates like roots, weaving together etymology, survival, and prophecy.

FR
La pièce sonore: un monologue spéculatif prononcé par la plante Ziziphus zizyphus elle-même. Au futur, la plante raconte son propre nom, sa migration et ses propriétés chimiques, tout en imaginant un monde post-extinction où elle deviendrait une superspèce dominante colonisant la planète Terre. Entre fiction et archéologie botanique, l’œuvre transforme la mémoire végétale en matière narrative — une méditation sur la résilience, la contamination et la survie.

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in 2022:
Reflecting Nature, Part I
Kunsthalle Erfurt (G)
https://kunstmuseen.erfurt.de/km/de/service/aktuelles/ausstellungen/2022/140227.html

in 2021:
Ich bin Natur. Von der Verletzlichkeit. Überleben in der Risikogesellschaft. / I am Nature. On Vulnerability. Survival in the Risk Society
ROHKUNSTBAU, Schloß Lieberose, Brandenburg (G),
curated by Heike Fuhlbrügge
https://www.rohkunstbau.net/

in 2020:
edited in Post-Specimen — Encounters Between Art, Science and Curating, Intellect Books, Bristol (GB)