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The Fence (Natural reserve, Milovice, Czech Republic)

from Future Landscapes by fyield

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Liberation of the landscape from human reins
When you pass the uninviting infrastructure of the former military base in Milovice, you find yourself looking at a landscape that does not resemble anything you can recall from Central Europe. The low-growing shrubs and abundance of plants evoke an open steppe. It might be a herald of what our landscape would look like in the future under certain circumstances.

The Milovice Nature Reserve has ceased to function as a production source for human activity. It was left alone for the natural processes to take over and even scientists did not expect such a rapid increase in biodiversity. This is also related to the food habits of its present-day inhabitants – animals that used to be common in the distant past – wild horses, bison and aurochs.

Aurochs were widespread in this area in the Middle Ages and, like the deer, was the locally dominant species. It has been extinct for four centuries now. The last aurochs died in 1627 in Poland. The Milovice specimens of the Taurus breed are the result of back-breeding. Genetically and in appearance they are very close to the original aurochs.

In the face of land and water scarcity in the time of climate crisis, large-scale intensive farming calls for rethinking. The landscape of the future may take on the form it used to have in ancient times, when it was not used intensively by humans to grow crops. It may gradually go wild, like in Milovice, which has become nature's experimental space and a place where diversity can exceed the boundaries.

For the time being, it covers only a small area of 125 hectares, adjacent to a busy road on one side and a golf course on the other. The reserve’s foundation wasn’t an easy process – despite the “advantage” of being a wasteland: the area had been used as a military training ground for the Austro-Hungarian army and then for the Soviet army. Will we ever be able to leave the countryside alone without ploughs and agricultural chemicals and let nature do its own experiments?

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What is the color of noise?
What is the sound of silence?
Who's behind the fence?

Can you buy moral authority?
Can you buy meaning?
Can you buy reason and truth?

Who's behind the fence, really who?
Horses or farmers?
Farmers or horses?

Who's domesticating whom?
Humans animals
Or animals humans?

Who's cultivating whom?
Humans the environment
Or the environment humans?

Who's raising who?
Parents children
Or children parents?
Children parents
Or parents children?

Who sets the rules?

Who's behind the fence, really who?

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from Future Landscapes, released October 31, 2022

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fyield Prague, Czechia

In their new music project Václav Havelka, Pan Thorarensen and Kryštof Kříček fuse music composed of sounds from selected natural and industrial locations in the Czech and Icelandic landscapes with electronics, beats and music instruments.

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