Mastyear
The installation can be entered via a creaking footbridge, which is tentatively nailed together from scraps of wood. Via this path, wild boar and domestic pig, which meet each other baring their teeth, can be circled. The artificial forest floor is littered with acorns.
Every 8—13 years there is a particularly large number of acorns. These years are called mast years. To this day, it is not fully understood how the trees manage to coordinate over hundreds of kilometers. The strategy behind it, however, is obvious: in acorn-poor years, the wild boar population is kept so low that the population does not manage to eat all of the acorns in the mast year. Thus, the survival of numerous seedlings is ensured. In the Middle Ages, this phenomenon was exploited by driving domestic pigs into the forests in autumn, where they would gorge themselves. A good mast year ensured the survival of entire villages and regions.
This scenario is the starting point for a thought experiment. How do domesticated and wild animals react to each other, and do they still recognize themselves in their counterpart?