(Re)searching for the European Roller

Abstract: (Re-)Searching for the European Roller retraces the working process of Hillside Projects(Jonas Böttern and Emily Mennerdahl), as they set out to investigate the re-introduction of the unusual the European Roller, a bird that hasn’t been nesting in Sweden in fifty years. The essay brings to surface questions regarding the re-introduction of species, the artificial and the natural and the ambiguity of the real. As Hillside Project gathers material and theories about bird migration and bird psychology they start to question the birds need for departure and the strong national desire for its return.