Slow Light - Seeking Darkness takes an interdisciplinary approach to the topic of light pollution, or to be more precise: the increasing need for darkness. Artists, researchers, people from social and cultural work, environmental and climate activists have engaged in a search for darkness and its fascination.
The book presents their explorations as a journey through various artistic, cultural or natural spaces in the Alps-Adriatic region, with collaborative stops in Topolò (Italy), Tolmin in the Socatal (Slovenia), Hrelji (Croatia), Carinthia and Styria: photographs draw with low light, celebrate the inspiration of a night sky or experimental musical sounds at concerts and performances. Texts tell of mountain tours to find a dark night, of poetry and of climate change, of artistic processes and everyday encounters, of workshops and symposia.
Slow Light - Seeking Darkness offers insights and reflections on the ideas of darkness, both physical and metaphorical. In gloomy times like the current ones, however, it is again about the question of light in the darkness, about places of remebrance and ideas of the future, about synergies between culture and ecology, between art and society, between human and nature.
The book is largely written/translated in English.