in situ AR soundwalk
24 Jun and 25 Jun 2023, at 18:00 / Teatri ODA (Priština)
2 Jul 2023, at 10:00, 11:30 and 18:00 / Apollonia (Strasbourg)
part of VITAL / art, environment, participation project
The speculative story of the soundwalk performance garden GOround points to the problematic relationship between people and plants, which is geared to mainly benefit people.
The colonialism itself and the human-mediated dispersal of plants capitalize on the subjection and exploitation of nature. It is vital to radically change this attitude if we want to deal effectively with the existential threat of ecological crisis and contemplate a brighter scenario for the future. To become more familiar with the world of plants, garden GOround goes into the temporal dimension. Through the prism of the journeys of these two utterly different temporalities of humans and plants, seemingly offering no possible point of encounter, it speculates on the development of a future, solidarity-based coexistence of humans and plants. Plants, the most populous species on the planet, live at their own pace in their own time, walking the paths we cannot access. garden GOround will take us along the paths of a possible future scenario for our overstressed, noisy planet mirrored through the development of local greenways. Can we learn from plants to build a more solidarity-oriented future?
VITAL creates an innovative ecosystem that respects the environment and, through art, participates in the fight against global warming and air pollution.
