‘Wet again’ is the result of a two-year process by Laura Haak to perceive and accompany a moorland region as an acting entity. It is located in a remote area in north-eastern Germany near Lake Kummerow in the Surrounding Malchin. A lot of time was spent conducting field research, developing scores of collaboration, and tracing hiking and canoe routes 1:1. This led to an exchange with local people who have a long-standing relationship with the peat soil and are committed to the rewetting of moorland soils both locally and across Europe. A fabric of different perspectives emerged, along with questions about their power-political implications for rural design processes. What are the new choreographies of maintenance work, and what perspectives are being referred to?

Laura Haak processes impressions and materials from this period in an installation consisting of four video essays of varying lengths with an immersive sound collage, printed locally produced grass fibre boards, a projection surface made of agar agar and paludicultures, and a seating installation made of 130 kg of sedge grass from the fields filmed on site. A reader with collected materials and textual classifications inspired by essays by Tim Ingold suggests a dramaturgy that can be discarded in the sense of one's own perception.

Data is currently being collected at several test sites at the University of Greifswald and the Greifswald Moor Institute, which will be used to change European subsidies for moorland cultivation. Local archive materials about a witch trial, impostor knights from Lüneburg and GDR Fdj youth camps for national drainage projects provide insight into the historical dimensions. Local artists and environmental scientists are creating places of exchange for ecologically-related cultural work. Farmers who are confronted with the very existential questions of directly translating ideas,- And over 5,000 years intact soil samples that, as an archive in their own, have an even longer and much greater story to tell.