Design: Lea Verholen
gardens & plots
Discourse and event series, June—October 2023, Berlin University of the Arts (UDK)
This program engaged with four artistic approaches to (urban) gardens and plots as sites of research and collaboration with both plants and humans. Drawing attention to the plot as a site of conflict and resistance, the featured long-term projects intervene in romantic imageries of the garden as a hermetic refuge and innocent 'hortus conclusus.' The artists are dealing with struggles around land use and food sovereignty as well as with the heritage of cultivation techniques, botanical architectures, plant taxonomies, and the ways that humans relate to plants. Departing from different plots and gardens, different connections between agri- and horticultural ecosystems, environmental and political struggles, and communities became tangible as crucial as well as fragile factors of what makes gardens & plots.
With contributions by Ami Lien & Enzo Camacho, Julia Kunz, Shelley Etkin, Alex Viteri & Shuntaro Yoshida, Işıl Eğrikavuk.
Concept: Annika Haas
Coordination: Jasmina Samssuli, Lena Loose, Magdalena Weidemann
The series was part of the colloquium at the Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies of Berlin University of the Arts (BAS).
