Action at the Froh Ussicht farm in Samstagern as part of the Plateaux Festival.
As part of the Plateaux Festival on the Froh Ussicht organic farm in Samstagern, we roll up our sleeves and devote ourselves entirely to gardening, but instead of culling tomatoes, collecting snails from salad beds or putting together colorful summer bouquets, the focus is on wild growth. Plants that are usually uprooted because they interfere with the growth of the crops or even just detract from the aesthetics of the carefully designed flower border - plants that are normally regarded as weeds are now in the spotlight. The area is weeded, the individual plants are transplanted into small pots, labeled and offered for sale. What is undesirable in the garden or in agriculture? What criteria determine whether a plant is considered a weed? And how do we deal with the fact that shepherd's purse falls into this category but is used in homeopathy? Ultimately, this "subversive gardening" also raises questions about valuations and economies that often seem self-evident in everyday life, but which are worth taking a closer look at. (Irene Müller)
automatically translated from german
Plateaux Festival - Werte schaffen
place: Bio Bauernhof Froh Ussicht, Samstagern.
KuratorIn: Blum, Martin; Hörler, Marc Norbert; Chacon-Pino, Matteo
Dokumentationstyp: Dokumentation einer Performance/Aktion / Documentation of a performance/action