When Mountains Slide

What we associate with stability and permanence is beginning to slip. Climate change is transforming the Alps – visibly and tangibly: rockfalls, shrinking glaciers, debris flows and lack of snow. These changes in the Alpine region have far-reaching consequences for the lives of people in the mountains. 

The exhibition "When Mountains Slide" focuses on the Canton of Glarus and shows how climate change is transforming not only landscapes, but entire ways of life. Sixteen audio texts create proximity to the changes in the mountains – people tell of their relationship to nature, how their perspective changes with the climate crisis and what visions of the future emerge from this. They show a multi-layered picture of the present: loss and uncertainty, adaptation and the search for new paths. People look at the changes from different perspectives. Yet their questions, wishes and hopes are not local – they concern us all. The exhibition challenges us to engage and invites us to adopt different perspectives. 

An exhibition by the Sito Collective Zurich-Glarus.

Main partners
Kanton Bern, Bundesamt für Kultur, Burgergemeinde Bern, Stadt Bern, Schweizer Alpen-Club (SAC)

Project Partners 
Berner Heimatschutz, Buch und Literatur Ost+, Kanton Glarus Kulturförderung Swisslos, Glarner Agenda, Markant Stiftung, Stiftung Anne-Marie Schindler

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