Saturday 15 October 12 noon - 10pm
Sunday 16 October 11am - 9pm
The Serpentine Gallery Garden Marathon was the sixth in the Gallery's acclaimed Marathon series. This two-day event explored of the concept of the garden. A product of the creative encounter between the man-made and the natural, between order and disorder, the garden can offer productive metaphors for the interactions between human life and time, care, thought or space.
The event was directly inspired by the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011, designed by Peter Zumthor. The encounter of architecture and garden creates a contemplative space that is both set within - and meditatively separated from - the wider surroundings of Kensington Gardens.
Participations ranges from the fields of horticulture, design and architecture to explore the creation of gardens and their spatial, urban and scientific importance, through to works by artists and readings by poets and writers exploring the significance of the garden in our experience of the world.
Participants include:
Etel Adnan, Brian Aldiss, Maria Thereza Alves, Rosie Atkins, Yto Barrada and Sean Gullette, Gianfranco Baruchello, Gerry Bibby, Stefano Boeri, Andrea Branzi, John Brockman, Pablo Bronstein, Lizzie Carey-Thomas, Hélène Cixous, Emer Coleman, Pascal Cribier, Adam Curtis, David Deutsch, Elizabeth Diller, Jimmie Durham, Marcus du Sautoy, Brian Eno, Patrick Eyres, Hans-Peter Feldmann, FIELDCLUB, Sophie Fiennes, Adriaan Geuze, Jef Geys, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, Fritz Haeg with Denise Withers, Zarina Hashmi, Will Holder, Jennifer Jacquet, Charles Jencks, Koo Jeong-A, Alison Knowles and Meghan DellaCrosse, Pablo León de la Barra, Jonas Mekas and David Ellis, Catherine Mosbach, muf architecture/art, Christian Philipp Müller, Peter Murray-Rust, Silke Otto-Knapp, Mark Pagel, Philippe Parreno, Giuseppe Penone, Julia Peyton-Jones, Alice Rawsthorn, Carissa Rodriguez and Avena Gallagher, David Rowan, Peter Saville and Anna Blessmann, Rüdiger Schöttle, Richard Sennett, Bas Smets, Paul Smith, Something & Son, Susan Stenger, Corin Sworn, Wolfgang Tillmans, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Günther Vogt, Sophie von Cundale, Alex Waterman, Cerith Wyn Evans, Andrea Zanzotto and Qiu Zhijie.
As well as: The observer's guide to the Serpentine Gallery Garden Marathon - compiled in one voice, in the field, by a pool: Paul Becker, Ian Evans, Will Holder, John D. Millar, Francesco Pedraglio, Heather Phillipson, Natasha Soobramanien, Cally Spooner, Nick Thurston and Luke Williams.
Tickets
£25/£20 (two day)
£15/£10 (one day)
Available at the Gallery Lobby Desk or Ticketweb: 08444 771 000
www.ticketweb.co.uk
SATURDAY 15 OCTOBER
12pm - 5pm
Julia Peyton-Jones,
Hans Ulrich Obrist
Steffi Czerny
& Marcel Reichart
Introductions
Wolfgang Tillmans
Ursuppe and Other Garden Pictures
Rosie Atkins
A History of Garden Design in 20 Minutes
Jef Geys
Quadra Medicinale: Weeds and Biodiversity
Gianfranco Baruchello
The Coefficient - The Garden as a Joint Agent
Hélène Cixous
Un vrai jardin - A Real Garden
Etel Adnan
The Spring Flowers Own
Patrick Eyres
Ian Hamilton Finlay and Little Sparta
Cerith Wyn Evans
Reading: Poems by Ian Hamilton Finlay
Alice Rawsthorn
Interviews Adriaan Geuze, Something & Son and FIELDCLUB
Adriaan Geuze
Something & Son
Born in a Shed
FIELDCLUB
Some Aspects of Neo-Agrosophy
Dan Graham
Museum as Garden/Garden as Museum
5pm - 10pm
Brian Aldiss
Interviewed by Hans Ulrich Obrist
Rodney Graham
Lobbing Potatoes at a Gong
Günther Vogt
Reality as Model as Reality
Rüdiger Schöttle
Theatergarden Bestiarium
Alison Knowles and Meghan DellaCrosse
Loose Pages
Pascal Cribier
Garden, Nature or Landscape?
Zarina Hashmi
Invisible Gardens
Elizabeth Diller
Agri-tecture
Fritz Haeg & Denise Withers
How a Garden can Change Your Life
Christian Philipp Müller
The New World
muf architecture/art
The Rehearsal
Peter Saville & Anna Blessmann
TV Blumen
Gerry Bibby
No Picnic (A Promenade of the Hearts), performed with Sophie
Corin Sworn
Out of Range
Rodney Graham
Lobbing Potatoes at a Gong
Susan Stenger
Ryoanji', by John Cage
SUNDAY 16 OCTOBER
11am - 5pm
Marcus du Sautoy
Exploring the Mathematical Garden
John Brockman
In Conversation with:
Brian Eno
Jennifer Jacquet, Shame Totem v.2.0
Mark Pagel, Cities as Gardens
Jimmie Durham
Berlin, April 2000
Paul Smith
Kew's Millennium Seed Bank: Supporting Innovation and Adaptation in Horticulture in a Changing World
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster & Pablo León De La Barra
SAVAGE LAVA JUNGLES
David Rowan, Emer Coleman & Peter Murray-Rust
Walled Gardens vs. Open Spaces: The Tension at the Heart of the Internet
Stefano Boeri
A Planetary Kitchen Garden
Richard Sennett
Open and Closed: How Gardens Serve as Places for Reflection
Catherine Mosbach
Phase Shift Park
Giuseppe Penone
The Garden Begins when a Man Tramples the Soil
Silke Otto-Knapp
"Recollections of a Happy Life, being the Autobiography of Marianne North", a reading
Charles Jencks
The Universe in the Landscape
Pablo Bronstein
In Conversation with Lizzie Carey-Thomas
5pm - 9pm
Sophie von Cundale
The Garden of Endemol
Jonas Mekas and David Ellis
Orvydas Garden
Adam Curtis
I Am not a Garden. I Am a Machine
Carissa Rodriguez & Avena Gallagher
Wowowee
Philippe Parreno & Bas Smets
CHZ
Mierle Laderman Ukeles
Transfer and Exchange: Proposal for 1 Million Participants to Participate in an Artwork for Freshkills Park, NYC: Public Offerings Made by All Redeemed by All
Yto Barrada & Sean Gullette
Sean Gullette Reads from Yto Barrada's "A Guide to Trees for Governors and Gardeners", with a Slideshow
Sophie Fiennes
3a The Little House
Alex Waterman
Beacons of Ancestorship
With additional contributions by:
Maria Thereza Alves
...sur l'herbe (homage à Domenico & Vincenzo Mancini)
David Deutsch
Why Are Flowers Beautiful?
Hans-Peter Feldmann
Christmas Tree
Will Holder
Pool (see back page)
Koo Jeong-A
Undisturbed Pools
Andrea Zanzotto
Reading by Hans Ulrich Obrist
Qiu Zhijie
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Press coverage
Preview: The Serpentine Gallery Garden Marathon, Londonist, Tuesday 11 October 2011
Garden Marathon: Grow your own art movement, The Independent, Thursday 13 October 2011
Garden Marathon, Polish Cultural Institute, Thursday 13 October 2011
Jonas Mekas' Serpentine Garden Marathon, Dazed Digital, Saturday 15 October 2011
The Garden Marathon Brunch in London, Saturday 15 October 2011
Information Gardens, Edge, Sunday 16 October 2011
The Serpentine Gallery Garden Marathon, London Jazz, Thursday 20 October 2011
Elizabeth Diller
The High Line, New York
© Iwan Baan
Stefano Boeri
Vertical Forest
© Stefano Boeri
Yto Barrada
Barrada Carpbrotus-acinaciformis, Tanger 2002
C-print, 60x60cm
© Yto Barrada
Pablo Bronstein
Teatro Aleesandro Scarlatti 2011
The Garden of Forking Paths,
Familie Blum in Samstagern
Migros Museum, Zurich
Courtesy Herald St, London and Franco Noero, Turin
Giuseppe Penone
Elevazione bronze
5 guarita trees photo © Archivio Penone
Rodney Graham
Leaping Hermit 2011
3 painted aluminium lightboxes with transmounted chromogenic transparencies
232.8 x 556.5 x 17.8 cm / 91 5/8 x 219 1/8 x 7 in
Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth
© Rodney Graham
Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography Zürich
Charles Jencks
The Avenue of Doubles focuses through a sewer pipe on a volcano 375 million years old
© Charles Jencks
Fritz Haeg
Edible Estate Regional Prototype Garden 2006
© Fritz Haeg
Anna Blessmann
World of Sex Ultrablush
© Anna Blessman
Mierle Laderman Ukeles
Galaxy, 2002
© Mierle Laderman Ukeles
Somthing & Son
Guangju Biennale installation
© Somthing & Son
Stefano Boeri
Expo Masterplan Milan 2015 (Desert)
© Stefano Boeri
Pablo Bronstein
Garden à la Mode
Tate Britain, London 2010
Courtesy Herald St, London and Franco Noero, Turin
© Pablo Bronstein
Yto Barrada
The Pink Towel 2009
C-print, 80x80cm
© Yto Barrada
Alison Knowles
© Alison Knowles
Peter Murray Rust
Powerpoint slide from Animal Garden 2011
© Peter Murray Rust
Sophie von Cundale
Video still from The Garden of Endemol Promotional Trailer 2011
Video with sound, 5min30
© Sophie von Cundale
Jean Geys
Plant Identifications
© Jean Geys
Millennium Seed Bank
© Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
