Union is a project about the personal use of lignite and its relationship to land appropriation. During the performance, a coal briquette was returned to the layer of the Lusatian lignite seam just uncovered by the bucket-wheel excavator in the Welzow open-cast mine in eastern Germany. It now rests amid the raw lignite mass. Through further processes at the mining edge, as well as erosion and weathering, the briquette will lose its form and become indistinguishable as an individual piece once again. The briquette seen here comes from the now closed Rhenish lignite mining region in western Germany.