Aegina Battery

An electricity generator powered by seventy-two Greek lemons.

Following Joseph Beuys, who created Capri Battery – a single lemon plugged into a light bulb – in 1986, Aegina Battery dramatises the power of the abilities and knowledges embodied in the natural world. But unlike Beuy’s work, which was conceptual and non-functional, Aegina Battery actually generates power, and points towards the Mediterranean and its neighbouring countries as a site for learning, new forms of ecological relationships, and novel responses to climatic and other changes.