We Reap What We Sow, embodiment and urban allotment gardening. Part 1: autumn- late winter, October- January.
(2021)
author(s): Polly Hudson
published in: RUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research, Birmingham City University: Faculty of Arts, Design and Media
This research investigates the inquiry: how is embodiment illuminated by a relationship with the land, earth, and plants, specifically in the context of an urban allotment gardening practice? It reveals the act of writing from the body, the relationship between a movement practice and gardening, the ancient ritual of growing and nurturing plants, and notions of gardening as a somatic practice.
The research project was carried out over the space of a year, from 2019-2020, and in this exposition the activities and interventions that were carried out during part I of the research are revealed.
The work shared here is part of an on-going long-term project instigated in 2017 ‘And so we Sow’ which looks at the relationship between dance and gardening.
Towards Revolutionary Gardening
(last edited: 2020)
author(s): RUUKKU Voices: Palimama
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
In this exposition I will focus in the long term environmental and community art work with the Cloud Garden that channels on the way to the eventual discoveries finally together with the Biomimetixc2. The Cloud Garden is a site-specific, minuscule, 1 square meter space beneath my studio on Harakka Island, on the front of Helsinki.
The methods the project include artistic and biological metamorphoses, and they have been implemented in performance and environmental art works.
This suggests that amalgamation of floral and faunal appearances is highly potential source for biomimicry enabling us towards true revolutionary gardening.
compost composition
(last edited: 2015)
author(s): pedi Matthies
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
what does composting as an art form look like? how can the process of decomposition be considered in an aesthetic form? can formal concerns be applied to organic processes?
These are just a couple of questions to start out with. For the last 10 years plant material of various types have been brought together by me, to rot and change form. Branches, tea-bags, dead plant material, bacteria, fungi and the like come together to make compost. The process from death and uselessness to nourishment and potential of organic matter is the object of study.