Curatorial Project āPlantedā¦ a selection of old rosesā¦ Rosa mundi, rose of the world.ā Derek Jarman, āModern Natureā (4) Inspired by Derek Jarmanās Modern Nature (1989), Planting Roses in January invites audiences to think about what the garden means to…
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The Unhomely Garden: art-gardens in a time of crises
Celina Jeffery On the morning of June 6th, 2023, I awoke to an intense orange glow peering through the window and the thin scent of smoke in my bedroom. I rushed to open the back door and experienced something Iād…
Anselm Kiefer: Barjac comme un Jardin-Atelier de monde
Mehdi Sharafi RĆ©sumĆ© Anselm Keifer est un artiste-peintre majeur Ć partir des annĆ©es quatre-vingts en Allemagne. Il considĆØre lāhistoire comme un matĆ©riau artistique. Son travail est une confrontation avec lāoubli historique dans les heures les plus sombres de lāhistoire. Il…
Laura Fritz: Verdure
Elizabeth L. Pence The artist Laura Fritz grew up in a planned community called Park Forest near Chicago, a place that appreciated strong examples of architecture. Designed by developers Philip Klutznick, Nathan Manilow, and a city planner named Elbert Peets,…
Art-gardening in Aotearoa: a topography of social-art-gardening practices and two fertile case studies
Mikayla JournĆ©e Preface, Part I: Sweet Potatoes Kumara is the MÄori kupu (word) for sweet potato, one of the primary crops of pre-European Aotearoa New Zealand. The kumara has sustained its prominence in local diets and on supermarket shelves alongside…
Contemporary Nature
Gabriel Sacco Preface When working on any project I always ask the question, is this useful? This question frames a way of being that I imagine is both self-aware and spatially-aware. When awareness becomes a reflection of community, what one…
roots of roots
Saanya Chopra I boundless infiltration i wince at the uncertainty of where i start, and where i cease my skin itches at the not knowing, the boundary between my self and the soil when i lay in the field of…
Edges and Viewsļ»æ
Anna Reckin āAre you a member of the college, sir?ā A question addressed to my companion, with, as I remember it, a peculiarly British falling emphasis on the key word: deference edged with irony. We were sitting on a grassy…
āModern Natureā and the Self-Portrait: Adam Ash Barbu and Neeko Paluzzi in Conversation
Adam Ash Barbu Recorded on April 26, 2023 Neeko Paluzzi, ‘Vada, of polari’, from: Words Unsaid: Autobiography and Knowing, curated by Adam Ash Barbu, 2023. Image courtesy of the artist. In this recorded and edited dialogue, independent curator Adam Barbu…
The Willfull Plot, Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, University of British Columbia-Vancouver January – April 2023ļ»æ
Desiree Valadares What is āwillfulnessā? Where do we tend to find this quality? Who or what is attributed as willful? These questions are at the heart of a 2023 exhibition at the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery in Vancouver, evocatively titled āThe…