Eco-monument

Eco-Monument is a 33-minute aerial video work that documents the evolving urban and ecological conditions of Tamale, Ghana. Filmed over the course of a year, the footage follows a single linear path from the city’s eastern edge to its western periphery—tracing Tamale’s full urban span from outskirts to center and back out again.

The continuous east–west trajectory reveals the layered and often unresolved dynamics of growth, land use, and transformation at the urban-rural threshold. Through this city-length portrait, Eco-Monument captures the emergent ecologies of a rapidly changing metropolitan landscape and raises questions about Tamale’s development and its uncertain futures.

Author: Juergen Strohmayer / Year: 2022 / Format: 33min 1-channel video / Montage: Oliver Alunovic / Part of the group project Tracing Emerging Ecologies with Baerbel Mueller, Eric Gyamfi, and Nii Obodai / Supported by the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of the Republic of Austria, [Applied] Foreign Affairs and Nuku Studio

Exhibited in Tracing Emerging Ecologies curated by Baerbel Mueller and Juergen Strohmayer. Nuku Studio, Tamale, Ghana. November 2022