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Trusting Land / NACHBARSCHAFTSAKADEMIE

25. Juni 2019 / 18:00 - 20:00

Artistic research by Brett Bloom and Bonnie Fortune

The Prinzessinnengarten is mobilizing to keep their land open for the next 99 years. If they are successful, their efforts will last well beyond the lives of those who are now organizing. One can anticipate their success leading to a permanent arrangement.

What cultural forms are available for working with multi-generational transmissions like this? How do people create enduring stories that help propel important efforts far into the coming millennia of energy descent and radical reconfiguration of human populations and energy consumption? A legal contract to keep a garden in place is a starting point, but if a larger culture supporting keeping the land open is not engaged, then it is fragile and subject to political shifts.

We work with people and organizations that engage deep time aspects of their endeavors. Semioticians and scientists in the US in the 1980s researched the difficulties of communicating the dangers of nuclear waste over vast periods of time, specifically the next 300 generations. They concluded that serial folk tales or myths were the only cultural forms that carried intact messages over unfathomable periods of time. Western culture is no longer an oral one. We must ask what we can do to help shape and support long term cultural, spatial, and political efforts that unfold in deep time.

With this in mind, we are doing work in support of the deep time success of Prinzessinnengarten. It is based on the rich cache of existing stories of the site and all the activities its community has generated. We are conducting interviews and asking the extended garden community to speculate on the future they want to see unleashed by their activities. We will publish our research and will generate a deep map, visualizing the connections and relationships that make 99 years possible.

 

Brett Bloom is an artist, activist, writer and publisher based in Indiana. He works mainly in collaborative groups and situations, often dealing with ecological issues. He is the cofounder of the long-running art group Temporary Services. Bloom co-edit-ed the double-book Belltown Paradise/Making Their Own Plans (WhiteWalls, 2004), which profiles long term neighborhood efforts in 5 cities that preserve open spaces, build sustainable city infrastructures, and create new public spaces. In the summer of 2015, Bloom coordinated two intensive training sessions—part of a multi-year effort called Breakdown Break Down—in London and rural Scotland that aim at the mobilizing for an articulation and construction of a civil culture to prepare for and survive climate chaos and breakdown. One key goal is to generate new stories that replace western petro-subjectivity, our industrialized sense of self and place, with other narratives and possibilities.

Bonnie Fortune is an artist and writer whose work looks at ecology–social and environmental– and the communication of affect. Fortune recently edited An Edge Effect: Art & Ecology in the Nordic Landscape. The book focuses on artists and arts groups who are working in expanded ways, connecting with others via interdisciplinary and discursive modes of artistic practice. The artists are conducting their own research into plant breeding, bio-diversity, and bio-remediation. They are saving seeds, composting, and collaborating in the field. The artists in this book are above all responding to the rapid changes that are occurring in our anthropogenic era.

Bonnie Fortune and Brett Bloom collaborate on artistic research projects around ecology, habitat, conservation, and protecting land. Fortune and Bloom have completed numerous projects dealing with urban habitat and ecology, including projects for the city of Urbana, Illinois and public art works in Copenhagen, Denmark. Their most recent collaboration was a “Deep Map” of ACRES Land Trust, a conservation organization in the Midwestern United States that “protects land forever.” They both write regularly on topics of art and ecology.

 

Die Veranstaltung ist Teil des Projekts:

Licht Luft Scheiße. Perspektiven auf Ökologie und Moderne

Realisiert durch: Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum der Freien Universität Berlin (BGBM), Martin-Elsaesser-Stiftung, Nachbarschaftsakademie im Prinzessinnengarten Kreuzberg und neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK)

Künstlerische Leitung: Sandra Bartoli, Marco Clausen, Silvan Linden, Åsa Sonjasdotter, Florian Wüst (nGbK-Projektgruppe), Kathrin Grotz, Patricia Rahemipour (BGBM)


Gefördert im Fonds Bauhaus heute der Kulturstiftung des Bundes „100 jahre bauhaus“  und durch die Lotto Stiftung Berlin. 

Details

Datum:
25. Juni 2019
Zeit:
18:00 - 20:00

Veranstaltungsort

Laube im Prinzessinnengarten Kreuzberg
Prinzenstraße 35-38
Berlin, 10996