The Serpentine Gallery Garden Marathon is the sixth in the Gallery's acclaimed Marathon series. This two-day event is an exploration 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.
Photographs: Polly Braden and Federico Martelli
SATURDAY 15 OCTOBER 2011
WOLFGANG TILLMANS URSUPPE AND OTHER GARDEN PICTURES
Wolfgang Tillmans is a German photographer and artist who lives and works in London and Berlin. Motivated by aesthetic and political concerns and interested in formulations of reality and truth claims, his work took the shape of portraiture, still-life, landscape and abstract photography that directly addresses the photographic process and its components. In 2000,Tillmans was the recipient of the Turner Prize. His work has been exhibited internationally including at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), the Hirshhorn Museum (Washington D.C.), the Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin) and the Serpentine Gallery (London). Since 2006 he runs the exhibition space Between Bridges in London.
ROSIE ATKINS A HISTORY OF GARDEN DESIGN IN 20 MINUTES
Former Curator of Chelsea Physic Garden, Rosie Atkins retired in December 2010 to return to writing and to spend time on various voluntary commitments linked to her horticultural interests. Having written for both Today and The Sunday Times, Atkins launched and edited the award-winning Gardens Illustrated magazine from 1992 to 2002. She has been a member of the RHS Woody Plant Committee since 2002 and was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 2003. She is Chairman of London Gardens Network, launched in 2008, and serves on the Gardens Panel of English Heritage. Atkins lives between London and East Sussex.
JEN GEYS QUADRA MEDICINALE: WEEDS AND BIODIVERSITY
Jef Geys is a Belgian artist, working in various media including film and photography. In 2010, he exhibited
Woodward Avenue at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, which was both a development of and a departure from his interdisciplinary project called Quadra Medicinale, which he presented at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009. His work has been exhibited worldwide at venues including the International Center of Photography, New York (2008); Ballroom Marfa, Texas (2007); Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2004); documenta 11, Kassel (2002); Kunstverein München (2001); Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (1992); and the 21st São Paulo Biennial (1991).
GIANFRANCO BARUCHELLO THE COEFFICIENT - THE GARDEN AS A JOINT AGENT
Gianfranco Baruchello (born 1924 in Livorno) lives and works in Rome and Paris. A painter, film and video maker, and writer, his research includes activity, assemblage, happenings and ephemera events. He participated in the exhibitions Collages et objets, Paris, and New Réalistes, New York (1962); in documenta 6 (1977), and in solo exhibitions in Rome, Milan, New York, Paris, Frankfurt, Chicago, Munich, Brussels and Berlin. Baruchello has described his work as possible ways of creating a space where contradictions may not coexist but coalesce into a series of smaller systems, to be proposed as alternatives to all the Great Systems, Great Creeds, Great Faiths and Ideologies.
HELENE CIXOUS UN VRAI JARDIN - A REAL GARDEN
Hélène Cixous (born 1937 in Oran, Algeria) is a writer, poet, philosopher, literary theorist and professor, and one of the most important voices in French feminist thought. In 1975, Cixous wrote The Laugh of the Medusa, which was a major influence on later post-structuralist feminist writing. Cixous is also the author of over fifty works of fiction and theatre, including A Real Garden (2010), Veils (with Jacques Derrida, 2001), So Close (2009), Hemlock (2011), and more than a dozen books of essays and critical texts, among which recently, Zero's Neighbour (on Samuel Beckett, 2010), Philippines (2011), The Portable Cixous (2010) and Volleys of Humanity: Essays 1974-2009 (2011).
ETEL ADNAN THE SPRING FLOWERS OWN
Born in Beirut in 1925, Etel Adnan is a Lebanese-American poet, essayist and visual artist who divides her time between Lebanon, France and the USA. Having taught philosophy in California for fourteen years, Adnan went on to devote herself to painting and writing. A powerful voice in feminist and anti-war movements, Adnan has published several works of poetry and fiction. Among these are Sitt Marie Rose (1978), a novel set before and during the 1975-1990 Lebanese Civil War; Master of the Eclipse (2009), In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country (2005), and The Spring Flowers Own (1990).
PATRICK EYRES IAN HAMILTON FINLAY AND LITTLE SPARTA
Dr Patrick Eyres is editor-publisher of the New Arcadian Journal, which celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2011. He has also published in numerous journals and books, and co-edited Sculpture and the Garden (Ashgate, 2006). Patrick had the good fortune to know Ian Hamilton Finlay for almost thirty years and has regularly visited Little Sparta, outside Edinburgh, since the late 1970s. Consequently, Finlay has featured in many NAJs, and the 2007 edition focused on his permanent landscape installations in the UK, mainland Europe and the USA. Patrick is a member of the Little Sparta Trust, which seeks to safeguard Finlay's garden.
ALICE RAWSTHORN INTERVIEWS ADRIAAN GEUZE, SOMETHING & SON AND FIELDCLUB
Alice Rawsthorn is the design critic of the International Herald Tribune, the global edition of the New York Times. Her weekly Design column - published every Monday - is syndicated to other media worldwide. An influential design commentator, Rawsthorn speaks at important international events, including the annual meetings of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. She is a trustee of Arts Council England and the Whitechapel Gallery in London, and a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Design.
In 1987, Adriaan Geuze founded West 8 urban design and landscape architecture. After winning the prestigious Prix-de-Rome award in 1990, Geuze established a leading reputation on an international level with his unique approach to planning and designing the public environment, relating contemporary culture, urban identity, architecture, public space and engineering. West 8 has an international team of 65 architects, urban designers, landscape architects and industrial designers and has offices in Rotterdam, Brussels and New York.
SOMETHING & SON BORN IN A SHED
Something & Son is a design practice rooted in a long history of British inquisitiveness and experimentation, applied to the creation of a more sustainable world. The practice's work reflects the team's varied backgrounds and shared passion in social enterprise, the environment, engineering and art, leading them to produce popular, provocative and witty work that tackles the big design and social challenges of our time. A keenness to collaborate has led Something & Son to work alongside swift experts, mushroom men, scrapyard merchants, farmers, scientists and sociologists.
FIELDCLUB SOME ASPECTS OF NEO-AGROSOPHY
FIELDCLUB is a collaborative interdisciplinary project directed by artist Paul Chaney, documenting a continuing attempt to live 'off-grid' on a four-acre field, disconnected from public utilities and most outside resources. FIELDCLUB's findings have led it to diverge from contemporary ecological discourse, developing Neo-Agrosophy - a theory of 'nature', which rests outside of conventional humanist frame-works. Through a programme of seminars and residencies involving ecologists, philosophers and artists, FIELDCLUB explores ideas that emerge from actually following green edicts 'on the ground', and exposes the ironies that come from raising the principles of ecology to the most general context imaginable.
DAN GRAHAM MUSEUM AS GARDEN/GARDEN MUSEUM
Born in Urbana, Illinois in 1942, Dan Graham grew up in New Jersey. His work often focuses on cultural phenomena, and incorporates photography, video, performance, glass and mirror structures. He has exhibited and realised commissions around the world, and has participated in numerous international group exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale (1976, 2003, 2004 and 2005) and documenta 5, 6, 7, 9 and 10 (1972, 1977, 1982, 1992 and 1997). Major retrospectives have been held in MOCA, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, among others. Graham lives and works in New York.
RODNEY GRAHAM LOBBING POTATOES AT A GONG
Rodney Graham was born in 1949 in Vancouver, where he lives and works. He is a prolific creator and has exhibited a wide range of art forms as video, photography, music, sculpture, drawing and installation. He has received prominent recognition worldwide. Graham's work can be found in numerous major private and public collections in North America and Europe including MoMA, New York; the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; the Vancouver Art Gallery; and the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. He has received many honours, including representing Canada in the 47th Venice Biennale (1997) and receiving an honorary Doctorate from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2002.
GÜNTHER VOGT REALITY AS MODEL AS REALITY
Günther Vogt, born 1957 in Fürstentum, Liechtenstein, is a landscape architect with a passion for and deep knowledge of plants and literature. He founded Vogt Landscape Architects, Zurich, in 2000; in 2008, the London branch was opened and in 2010 a new office in Berlin was opened. Today he develops national and international projects with ca. 50 employees. Günther Vogt is Professor for Landscape Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Department of Architecture, since 2005 and Chairman of Network City and Landscape (NSL) since 2007.
RÜDIGER SCHÖTTLE THEATERGARDEN BESTIARIUM
Rüdiger Schöttle is a German gallery owner, artist and writer, living and working in Munich. Since its founding in 1968, Rüdiger Schöttle Gallery has been influential in showing new positions in contemporary art. As an artist, Rüdiger Schöttle has exhibited widely in Europe and abroad, including Wool and Water (1988), Victoria Miró, London, and the installation Louis tanzt, collaboration with Glenn Branca, Dan Graham, Jeff Wall and Ruth Gross, Verein Kunsthalle Zurich (1985). Conceived by Rüdiger Schöttle and produced by Chris Dercon for its first showing at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (1989), the exhibition Theatergarden Bestiarium was last shown at the Haus der Kunst, Munich in Spring 2011.
ALISON KNOWLES AND MEGHAN DELLACROSSE LOOSE PAGES
Fluxus artist Alison Knowles was an integral part of the downtown New York artist community that would become SoHo, working with John Cage and Marcel Duchamp, among others. Her practice largely comprises artist books, computer poetry, performances, scores and other ephemeral and process-based work. Active since the early 1960s and a pioneer of the Event type of instructional performance in Europe, Knowles has performed and exhibited worldwide, and most recently at Tate Modern, London; mumok - Museum of Modern Art, Vienna; Urawa Art Museum, Japan; and the Guggenheim and MoMA, New York.
MA candidate Meghan DellaCrosse (CUNY Hunter College) studies modern and contemporary art, focusing on performance rooted in the late 1950s-early 1960s in relation to the Fluxus group, Event score performance, and the artist-run Something Else Press. She has studied and written about Alison Knowles, the founding female member of the Fluxus group, and considers her experiences performing with Knowles an extension of that research. She received her B.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Sculptural Studies and Art History from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2006.
PASCAL CRIBIER GARDEN, NATURE OR LANDSCAPE?
Pascal Cribier (born in 1953 in Normandy) is a landscape architect. Projects include the garden of the Tuileries, Paris (1990, with Louis Benech, François Roubaud, Monique Mosser and Giuseppe Penone); Woolton House, Hampshire (1996-2004); Motu Tané, Bora Bora (2001), Jardin de la Visitation, Lyon (2004), a minimalist garden in a middle-aged castle (1999-2008), a botanical garden in Antibes (2007-12). Publications include the mono-graph Pascal Cribier: Itinéraire d'un jardinier (2009). A retrospective of his practice, Les racines ont des feuilles, was held in Paris at EDF Electra in 2008. In 2011, Cribier was awarded a prize by the French Académie d'architecture for his career in design and architecture.
ZARINA HASHMI INVISIBLE GARDENS
Zarina Hashmi, (born 1937 in Aligarh, India) lives and works in New York. After receiving a degree in mathematics, she studied printmaking with S. W. Hayter at Atelier-17 in Paris. Hashmi has participated in numerous exhibitions, including at MoMA and the Guggenheim Museum, New York; and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Her work is in the permanent collections of the V&A; the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; the Hammer Museum, LA; the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Guggenheim Museum and MoMA, New York. Hashmi was one of the artists representing India at the 54th Venice Biennale (2011).
ELIZABETH DILLER AGRI-TECTURE
Elizabeth Diller is a founding principal of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, an interdisciplinary design studio that integrates architecture, the visual arts, and the performing arts. DS+R's projects include the Lincoln Center expansion and renovation, New York (2008-10), the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2006), The High Line, New York (2009-11), and the Blur Building, Switzerland (2002). DS+R are recipients of the MacArthur Foundation's 'Genius' award, the Smithsonian's National Design Award, the American Academy of the Arts and Letters' Brunner Prize, and numerous AIA awards. In 2003, the Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of the studio's work. Diller is a Professor of Architecture at Princeton University.
FRITZ HAEG & DENISE WITHERS HOW A GARDEN CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE
Fritz Haeg's work has included edible gardens, public dances, educational environments, animal architecture, domestic gatherings, urban parades, temporary encampments, documentary videos, publications, exhibitions, websites, and occasionally buildings for people. Recent projects include Sundown Schoolhouse - an itinerant educational program; Edible Estates - an international series of domestic edible landscapes; and Animal Estates - a housing initiative for native animals in cities around the world which debuted at the 2008 Whitney Biennial. Selected current and upcoming projects are with SALT Beyoglu, Istanbul; Stroom Den Haag; Blood Mountain, Budapest; deCordova Museum, Boston; Princeton University; UNC Greensboro; and Arup Phase 2, London.
CHRISTIAN PHILIPP MÜLLER THE NEW WORLD
Since the late 1980s, the works of Swiss-born artist Christian Philipp Müller in various media update artistic models of historical conceptualism and institutional critique on the basis of an expanded notion of site-specificity. They are united by a methodological premise that is followed as rigidly as humorously: it is the context of an artwork from which its production needs to depart. Müller's works have been developed for numerous international exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale and documenta, Kassel. Projects are on-going on the campus of Lüneburg University; Queens College, Social Sciences, New York; Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson; and Cloistergardens Melk, Austria. Since 2011, Müller is the Dean of Kunsthochschule Kassel.
MUF ARCHITECTURE/ART THE REHEARSAL
muf architecture/art was established in London in 1995. The practice has an international reputation for its site-specific, research-driven projects that address the social, spatial and economic infrastructures of the public realm. Projects range from largescale urban design strategies, landscapes and buildings, to temporary interventions. Recent work includes the British Pavilion for the 12th Venice Biennale of Architecture (2010); Barking Town Square, winner of the 2008 European Prize for Urban Space; as well as a number of projects on the fringes of the Olympic site.
PETER SAVILLE & ANNA BLESSMANN TV BLUMEN
Artist Anna Blessmann and designer Peter Saville met in a gallery in Berlin in 2001 and soon started to collaborate on works which have been shown at Hotel, London; Paul Stolper, London; CRAC Alsace; migros museum für gegenwartskunst, Zürich and in various publications. In 2010, they presented Swing Project 1 in the FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims. They live and work together in London.
GERRY BIBBY NO PICNIC (A PROMENADE OF THE HEARTS) PERFORMED WITH SOPHIE
'Take a setting, perform an action, and create a problem. Building on the tradition of the collage where existing materials are mixed and merged, Gerry Bibby likes to occupy and colonise an object, an image, or a place: he finds what it already contains, uses it for what it's worth, cuts up and diverts some of its key components, and extracts a new condition' (Anthony Huberman, October 2010). Recent solo projects include 5 Stages Liberation Project, The Artist's Institute, New York and STUDIOLO, Zurich. Recent performances include Untitled Making Room: Parallel Lines at MGK, Basel and Malmö Konsthall; and Myspace at Silberkuppe, Berlin.
CORIN SWORN OUT OF RANGE
Corin Sworn is interested in the means by which artefacts are borrowed, adapted and reconfigured to tell various stories. Her work often explores the alternate narratives that cultural products might develop through use. Sworn is interested in hierarchies of attention, the systems that order these and how the erratic nature of subjective perception might undermine them. Solo exhibitions include: Art Now at Tate Britain (2011); Tramway (2010) and Washington Garcia for Glasgow International (2010). Group exhibitions include: Hors Pistes, Centre Pompidou, (2011); Morality, Witte de With (2010); EASTInternational (2009), Report on Probability, Kunsthalle Basel (2009) and Participant Inc., New York (2008).
RODNEY GRAHAM LOBBING POTATOES AT A GONG
Rodney Graham was born in 1949 in Vancouver, where he lives and works. He is a prolific creator and has exhibited a wide range of art forms as video, photography, music, sculpture, drawing and installation. He has received prominent recognition worldwide. Graham's work can be found in numerous major private and public collections in North America and Europe including MoMA, New York; the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; the Vancouver Art Gallery; and the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. He has received many honours, including representing Canada in the 47th Venice Biennale (1997) and receiving an honorary Doctorate from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2002.
SUSAN STENGER RYOANJI, BY JOHN CAGE
American musician/composer Susan Stenger followed 1970s flute studies in Prague and a focus on experimental music with several years in Rhys Chatham's electric-guitar orchestra and the seminal drone/rock group Band Of Susans. After moving to London in 1996, she founded the all-bass art band Big Bottom and began collaborating with dancer/ choreographer Michael Clark. She has performed with Phill Niblock, F.M. Einheit, John Cale, Nick Cave, and Iain Sinclair and composed a 96-day sound installation as part of Soundtrack For An Exhibition, presented at MAC Lyon in 2006. Stenger is currently working on commissions for Newcastle's AV2012 festival and the Kronos Quartet.
SUNDAY 16 OCTOBER 2011
MARCUS DU SAUTOY EXPLORING THE MATHEMATICAL GARDEN
Marcus du Sautoy is the Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of New College. He is author of three books: The Music of the Primes, Finding Moonshine and most recently The Number Mysteries. He has presented numerous radio and TV series including a threepart landmark TV series for BBC2 called The Code, broadcast in Summer 2011. In 2009 he was awarded the Royal Society's Faraday Prize, the UK's premier award for excellence in communicating science. He received an OBE for services to science in the 2010 New Year's Honours List.
JOHN BROCKMAN IN CONVERSATION WITH BRIAN ENO, JENNIFER JACQUET, SHAME TOTEM v.2.0, MARK PAGEL, CITIES AS GARDENS
John Brockman is a cultural impresario whose career has encompassed the avant-garde art world, science, books, software, and the Internet. In the 1960s he coined the word 'intermedia' and pioneered intermedia kinetic environments in film, art, theatre, and commerce, while also consulting for clients such as General Electric, Columbia Pictures, The Pentagon, and the White House. In 1973, he formed Brockman, Inc., the international literary and software agency specialising in serious nonfiction whose clients include such leading thinkers as Richard Dawkins, Jared Diamond, Brian Greene, Daniel Kahneman, Steven Pinker, Martin Rees, and Nassim Taleb. He is the founder of the nonprofit Edge Foundation, Inc. and editor of the website Edge.org
Brian Eno, born in 1948, is an artist, recording artist, composer, record producer and theorist. Aside from his 20 or so solo recordings, he has recorded with David Byrne, David Bowie, Laurie Anderson, U2, Talking Heads, Devo, Jon Hassell, Gavin Bryars and Coldplay among others. Eno's work has been extremely influential, pioneering Ambient Music and Generative Music and innovating production techniques. He has made over a hundred installations of his visual work. He is a co-founder of The Long Now Foundation. Eno's most recent projects include Drums Between the Bells, a collaboration with poet Rick Holland (released July 2011 by Warp Records) and the solo album Small Craft on a Milk Sea (with Jon Hopkins and Leo Abrahams, released in 2010 by Warp Records).
Jennifer Jacquet is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, examining the effects of social approval and disapproval on cooperation, and is writing a book about shame. For this project, she teamed up with Oscar Baechler, a graduate of the Art Institute of Seattle who has worked the entire 3D and traditional pipeline.
Mark Pagel is a Fellow of the Royal Society, and Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Reading, where he leads the Evolution Group. Pagel builds statistical models to examine the evolutionary processes imprinted in human behaviour, from genomics to the emergence of complex systems - to culture. His latest work examines the parallels between linguistic and biological evolution by applying methods of phylogenetics, or the study of evolutionary relatedness among groups, essentially viewing language as a culturally transmitted replicator with many of the same properties we find in genes. His new book Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind will appear in February 2012.
JIMMIE DURHAM BERLIN, APRIL 2000
Jimmie Durham is an American artist, essayist and poet. His works have been exhibited widely, including documenta 9, Kassel (1991); the Whitney Biennial (1993, 2006); ICA, London (1993, 2004); Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (1994); the Venice Biennale (1999, 2001, 2003, 2005); and Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris (2009). Primarily a sculptor, Durham began publishing poetry in the 1960s. His work is included in the Anthology of 20th Century Native American Poetry (1988), and his collection of poems Columbus Day (1983) won an award from the American Society of Poetry. He lives and works in Europe.
PAUL SMITH KEW'S MILLENNIUM SEED BANK: SUPPORTING INNOVATION AND ADAPTATION IN HORTICULTURE IN A CHANGING WORLD
Dr Paul Smith is a specialist in ecology and plant diversity in southern, central and eastern Africa. Dr Smith is the Head of Kew's Millennium Seed Bank (MSB) Partnership, a network of over 120 plant science institutions in 54 countries. In October 2009, the Partnership achieved its first milestone of storing seed from 10% of the world's plant species. Over the next 10 years, the Partnership will seek to secure 25% of the world's flora in seed banks and to enable the use of that seed for human innovation in agriculture, horticulture, forestry and habitat restoration.
DOMINIQUE GONZALEZ-FOERSTER & PABLO LEÓN DE LA BARRA SAVAGE LAVA JUNGLES
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, born in 1965 in France, works across various media, mostly video and installation. She received the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2002 and has presented solo exhibitions at Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2002); Tate Modern, London (2008); and MUSAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (2008), León. Her work was also included in the 27th São Paulo Biennial (2006) and the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009). In April 2011, Gonzalez-Foerster created a large-scale site-specific performance at the Guggenheim Museum, New York. She lives and works in Paris and Rio de Janeiro.
Pablo León De La Barra (born 1972, Mexico City) is a cultural agent, independent curator and researcher. León de la Barra has a PhD in History and Theory from the Architectural Association, London. He has curated amongst many exhibitions: To Know Him Is To Love Him, Cerith Wyn Evans at Casa Luis Barragan, Mexico City (2010); Incidents of Mirror Travel in Yucatan and Elsewhere at Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2011); and Bananas is my Business: The South American Way,Museu Carmen Miranda, Rio de Janeiro (2011). He is the co-director of Novo Museo Tropical, publisher of Pablo Internacional Ediciones, and editor of The Centre for the Aesthetic Revolution blog, centrefortheaestheticrevolution.blogspot.com.
DAVID ROWAN, EMER COLEMAN & PETER MURRAY-RUST WALLED GARDENS VS OPEN SPACES: THE TENSION AT THE HEART OF THE INTERNET
David Rowan is editor of WIRED magazine (UK), awarded 2009 Launch of the Year at the British Society of Magazine Editors Awards. He writes the 'Digital Life' column, GQ magazine, and the Tech Traveller column, Condé Nast Traveller. He has spoken internationally on topics ranging from the future of luxury brands to the new rules of business in a mobile-internet age. Recent appearances include BBC Newsnight, BBC Breakfast News, Radio 4's Today Programme and Channel 4 News. Rowan has edited The Guardian's websites, made TV films for Channel 4 News, and written features for The Telegraph Magazine, Sunday Times Magazine and The Observer.
Emer Coleman is Director of Digital Projects at the Greater London Authority. Her work in the GLA includes leading on the London Datastore, encouraging all public agencies in the capital to release their data into the public domain. Prior to moving to London in 2005, Emer worked in local government communications in Dublin having previously worked as a columnist and feature writer for a number of Irish newspapers. She graduated with a BA in History and Sociology from University College Cork and a MPA from Warwick Business School. In 2011, she was named in Wired magazine's Top 100 Digital Power Influencers List.
Peter Murray-Rust, originally a crystallographerwith a DPhil from Oxford, has worked at the University of Ghana, the University of Stirling, and at Glaxo where he developed new technologies including molecular graphics, protein structure determination, and intranets. He created a CML browser known as Jumbo. In 2011, he received the Herman Skolnik Award of the American Chemical Society with Henry Rzepa for efforts in advancing the field of chemical informatics. Currently, he is at the University of Cambridge helping to establish novel software and Web technologies for chemists and other scientists underpinned by the concept of open source.
STEFANO BOERI A PLANETARY KITCHEN GARDEN
Stefano Boeri (born 1956), is a Milan-based architect and is currently a Municipal Councillor for Culture in Milan. He was Editor-in-Chief of the international magazines Abitare and Domus. A Professor of Urban Design at the Politecnico, Milan, he has taught as a visiting professor at Strelka, Moscow; Harvard Graduate School of Design; Massachusetts Institute, Cambridge, MA; Berlage Institute, Rotterdam and the Architectural Association, London, among others. He is the founder of the 'Multiplicity' international research network dedicated to the study of contemporary urban transformations. Boeri is the co-author of numerous volumes, among which Uncertain States of Europe (2002) and Cronache dell'abitare (2007).
RICHARD SENNETT OPEN AND CLOSED: HOW GARDENS SERVE AS PLACES FOR REFLECTION
Richard Sennett has explored how individuals and groups make social and cultural sense of material facts - about the cities in which they live and about the labour they do. Sennett focuses on how people can become competent interpreters of their own experience, despite the obstacles society may put in their way. His research entails ethnography, history, and social theory.
CATHERINE MOSBACH PHASE SHIFT PARK
Catherine Mosbach is a French landscape architect, practising since 1987. She quickly won the Trophy of Landscape from the French Ministry of Environment and co-founded the magazine, Pages Paysages, where Mosbach has written and published widely on landscape architecture. She has since received international recognition for her commissions and unique landscapes in Taiwan, China, Israel, Canada, USA and her native France. She was awarded the Rosa Barba European Landscape Prize at the 3rd European Biennial of Landscape Architecture in 2003. This project was also featured in an exhibition at the MoMA, New York, in 2005.
GIUSEPPE PENONE THE GARDEN BEGINS WHEN A MAN TRAMPLES THE SOIL
Giuseppe Penone (born 1947) is an Italian artist and sculptor living and working in Italy. He began to exhibit his works in 1968, as part of the Arte Povera group. The artist's actions, in dialogical relation with those of nature, give shape to materials, giving them fantastical appearances. The tree, considered by Penone 'The first and most simple ideal of vitality, culture and sculpture', is a central element in his work. Penone has exhibited worldwide and has works in the collections of MoMA, New York, Tate Britain, London and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, among others. He has exhibited in documenta 5, 7 and 8 (1972, 1982, 1987) and the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007).
SILKE OTTO-KNAPP "RECOLLECTIONS OF A HAPPY LIFE, BEING THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARIANNE NORTH", A READING
Silke Otto-Knapp was born in 1970 in Osnabrück, Germany. She received her Degree in Cultural Studies in 1997 from the University of Hildesheim and her MFA from Chelsea College of Art and Design in 1996. Otto-Knapp has exhibited extensively in the UK and abroad at venues including Kunstverein München; Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York; Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff; Modern Art Oxford; and Migros Museum, Zurich.
CHARLES JENCKS THE UNIVERSE IN THE LANDSCAPE
Charles Jencks divides his time between lecturing, writing, and designing in the USA, the UK, and Europe. He is the author of, among others, The New Paradigm in Architecture (re-issued 2002); Critical Modernism, (2007), The Architecture of Hope with Edwin Heathcote (2010) and The Story of Post- Modernism, Five Decades of Ironic, Iconic and Critical Architecture (2011). Landform projects include Landform Ueda, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh. Jencks is currently working with Cern on an iconographic and green project. His recent landscape work is summarised in The Universe in the Landscape (2011).
PABLO BRONSTEIN IN CONVERSATION WITH LIZZIE CAREY-THOMAS
Pablo Bronstein's (born 1977 in Buenos Aires) drawings, paintings, installations, films and performances are underpinned by his references to architectural styles and motifs ranging from the Baroque to the postmodern. While his architectural interventions play with notions of power and economy as they are manifested in architectural form, his performances, often working with groups of dancers, delineate both physical and social spaces through gesture and choreographed movement. Recent solo exhibitions include Sketches for Regency Living, ICA, London (2011); Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2011); Pablo Bronstein at the Met, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2009); and Garden à la Mode, Art Now Sculpture Commission, Tate Britain.
SOPHIE VON CUNDALE THE GARDEN OF ENDEMOL
Sophie von Cundale (born in 1987) lives and works in Peckham and studies at the Slade School of Fine Art. Her video and performance work has been shown in London at Sketch, Serpentine Gallery's Serpentine Cinema programme, South London Galley, the ICA, and published in The White Review. She exhibits as part of the art group S P A C E C R A F T, makes television with artists Kerri Meehan and Alex Ressel and is collaborating with writer Benjamin Eastham, filmmaker James Spinney and artists Levin Haegele and Patrick Cole on her current project, The Garden of Endemol. The Garden of Endemol credits: Written by Sophie von Cundale and Benjamin Eastham. Narrated by Nicholas Audsley. Music composed by James Spinney. Performed by Christopher Belson, Ben Brown, Flora Curzon, Jack Holloway, Flora Lait and James Spinney.
JONAS MEKAS AND DAVID ELLIS ORVYDAS GARDEN
Jonas Mekas was born in 1922 in Semeniškiai, Lithuania and currently lives in New York City. A filmmaker, poet, curator, editor, distributor, archivist and artist, Mekas is one of the leading figures of independent and avant-garde cinema. His film and video work is screened and exhibited extensively worldwide including venues such as MoMA, New York; Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris; documenta, Kassel; and the Venice Biennale. His poetry and diaries have been published internationally and translated into over 12 languages. Jonas Mekas has received numerous grants and awards, including from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
David Ellis (born 1955 in London) eschews the term artist, preferring to describe himself as a 'rogue enthusiast', a writer, performer-actor for TV/Film, a curator and occasional journalist. Ellis is the founder of Puzzleclub (1994-97), the London-based platform for convergent art (with Hattie Naylor). In 1993, Ellis began his on-going incursions into Lithuania, acting as an advocate for Lithuanian filmmakers. He was the producer of Silent Key (BBC Radio 3, 2001), a 45-minute audio-diary on the history of shortwave radio. A regular collaborator/documenteur with artist Simon Tyszko, he is currently recording their 'conversationals' at The Wellcome Library and the Getty Archives for Resonance FM.
ADAM CURTIS I AM NOT A GARDEN, I AM A MACHINE
Adam Curtis (born 1955) is a documentary filmmaker and writer. Curtis makes political and historical documentary films for the BBC, including The Mayfair Set (1999), on the rise of business and the decline of political power; The Century of the Self (2002), on the Freud dynasty and the management strategies of mass consumerism; The Power of Nightmares (2004), on the politics of fear; The Trap - What Happened to our Dream of Freedom (2007), on the modern concept of freedom; and All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011), on how computers have led us into a simplified machine-vision of the world. His films have won numerous awards, including six BAFTAs.
CARISSA RODRIGUEZ & AVENA GALLAGHER WOWOWEE
Carissa Rodriguez was born in New York City, where she currently lives and works. Her work has been exhibited in group exhibitions at Kunstraum Luneburg; Bortolami, New York; Kunsthalle Zurich; Chantal Crousel; Paris; and The Swiss Institute, New York. Solo exhibitions include New Jersey, Basel; House of Gaga, Mexico City; and a forthcoming solo exhibition at Karma International, Zurich. Alongside her art practice, Rodriguez is a gallerist at Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, which she co-directs with Emily Sundblad and John Kelsey. In December 2011, Rodriguez will present new work for Art Positions at Art Basel Miami, represented by Karma International, Zurich.
Avena Gallagher is an observer and stylist living and working in New York City. Her work skirts the line between art and fashion, her interests lying in the function of dress in social space as a mode of expression, concealment and accident. She has collaborated with a number of artists including Richard Kern, David Bowie, Kembra Pfahler. A book of her 'Remote Photos' project - in which clothes and cameras were sent to subjects who dressed and photographed themselves - was published by Janvier/Léo Scheer. She has shown in group shows at participant inc.; Gavin Brown's enterprise; The Kitchen, New York; and Art Dubai. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
PHILIPPE PARRENO & BAS SMETS CHZ
Philippe Parreno was born 1964 in Oran, Algeria. He rose to prominence in the 1990s earning critical acclaim for his work that employs a diversity of media including film, sculpture, performance and text. In June 2006, Parreno's and Douglas Gordon's feature-length documentary, Zidane, A 21st Century Portrait, premiered at the 2006 Cannes film Festival. Most recently, Parreno has presented a series of related but distinct retrospectives at Kunsthalle Zurich; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (both 2009); the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2009-10); the Centre for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York (2009-10); and the Serpentine Gallery, London (2010-2011). Parreno lives and works in Paris.
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
Mierle Laderman Ukeles, artist, is madly in love with the public domain and public culture seen as 'The area where everyone, truly everyone, can be inside the picture.' Her Manifesto for Maintenance Art, 1969! is still operative today. Since 1977, when she became the official, unsalaried artist-in-residence at the New York City Department of Sanitation - a position she still holds - Ukeles has created art that deals with the endless maintenance and service workers that 'keep the city alive', holistic urban waste flows, and our power to transform degraded land and water into healthy public places. Ukeles is represented by the Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York.
YTO BARRADA & SEAN GULLETTE SEAN GULETTE READS FROM YTO BARRADA'S "A GUIDE TO TREES FOR GOVERNORS AND GARDENERS", WITH A SLIDESHOW
Yto Barrada (born 1971 in Paris) lives and works in Tangier, Morocco. Recent photography and film exhibitions include MoMA, New York (2011); Witte de With, Rotterdam (2004); SFMOMA, San Francisco (2009); The Kitchen, New York (2011) and 52nd and 54th Venice Biennale (2007, 2011). Books include A Life Full of Holes - The Strait Project (2005). Barrada is the 2011 Deutsche Bank artist of the year. Her exhibition Riffs premiered at Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, and is currently at WIELS, Brussels (travelling to Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zürich and the Renaissance Society, Chicago). She is the cofounder and director of the Cinémathèque de Tanger.
SOPHIE FIENNES 3a THE LITTLE HOUSE
Following a foundation course in painting at Chelsea School of Art, Sophie Fiennes worked with director Peter Greenaway from 1987 to 1992. She managed the UK-based dance company, Michael Clark Company from 1992 to 1994, and began making films in 1998. Fiennes is known for unconventional feature documentaries on disparate subjects, such as a Pentecostal church in Los Angeles (Hoover Street Revival, 2002) and the philosopher Slavoj Žižek (The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, 2006). Her most recent film, Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow, an exploration of the art of Anselm Kiefer, premiered in the official selection of the Cannes Film Festival in 2010.
ALEX WATERMAN BEACONS OF ANCESTORSHIP
Alex Waterman's practice centres on music as the 'social body sounding'. He is active as a cellist, composer, interpreter, musicologist, teacher, and writer. He is a founding member of the Plus-Minus Ensemble in London and Brussels, Either/Or Ensemble in New York and also founded the record label and publishing company, D.S. al Coda, with Dexter Sinister. He has collaborated with Beatrice Gibson and Will Holder, among others, to produce books, films and compositions. In December 2011, he will direct a new Spanish version of Robert Ashley's television opera, Perfect Lives, at the Irondale Theatre in Brooklyn.
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MARIA THEREZA ALVES ...SUR L'HERBE (HOMAGE A DOMENICO & VINCENZO MANCINI)
Download Maria Thereza Alves's printed contribution to the Garden Marathon.
Maria Thereza Alves, a Brazilian artist living in Europe, researches social and cultural phenomena, working particularly with situations which question social circumstances about what we think we know and who we think we are, to look instead at where and how we actually are at this time. Alves will participate in documenta 13 (2012), and has exhibited at the 29th São Paulo Biennial; 10th Biennale de Lyon; 3rd Guangzhou Triennial; Manifesta 7; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (all 2008); Basel Kunsthalle (2010); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2008); Berlinale (2008); San Francisco Art Institute (2007), NBK, Berlin (2005) and the Liverpool Biennial (2004).
DAVID DEUTSCH WHY ARE FLOWERS BEAUTIFUL?
Born in Haifa, Israel, David Deutsch was educated at Cambridge and Oxford universities. After several years at the University of Texas at Austin, he returned to Oxford, where he now lives and works. Since 1999, he has been a non-stipendiary Visiting Professor of Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation at the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University. Recognition of his work has included the Institute of Physics' Paul Dirac Prize and Medal, and the International Award on Quantum Communication, and he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2008. He is the author of two books: The Fabric of Reality (1997), and the recently-published The Beginning of Infinity (2011).
HANS-PETER FELDMANN CHRISTMAS TREE
Hans-Peter Feldmann, born 1941, lives in Düsseldorf.
WILL HOLDER POOL (SEE BACK PAGE)
Typographer Will Holder makes books with artists, using conversation as tool and model for publishing conditions - whereby roles of commissioner, author, subject, editor, and designer are improvised and shared. Holder is editor of F.R.DAVID, a journal concerned with reading and writing in the arts (published by de Appel, Amsterdam). In May 2009, he co-curated TalkShow at the ICA - an exhibition/events programme dealing with speech and accountability. He is currently editing (with Alex Waterman) a bio-graphy of American composer Robert Ashley, for four or more voices (forthcoming); and rewriting William Morris's News from Nowhere (1876) into a serially published guide for design education and practice - set in 2135.
KOO JEONG-A UNDISTURBED POOLS
Koo Jeong-A was born in 1967 in Seoul. Recent solo exhibitions include E opened his eyes He is now walking, CCA Kitakyushu (2011); Koo Jeong-A: Constellation Congress, Dia at Hispanic Society of America, New York (2010) and Oussseux, Centre international d'art et du paysage de l'île de Vassivière (2007). Group exhibitions include the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009); elles@centrepompidou, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2009); T2 Torino Triennale (2008) and everstill/ siempretodavía, Federico García Lorca Museum, Huerta de San Vicente, Granada (2007-8). In 2004, she was invited, along with Urs Fischer, to create an inaugural installation at the Centre Pompidou's Espace 315 gallery.
ANDREA ZANZOTTO READING BY HANS ULRICH OBRIST
Andrea Zanzotto was born in 1921 in Pieve di Soligo, near Venice, and died on 18 October 2011. His ample poetic production, as well as his body essays and fiction, began in the 1940s and continue to this day. A thematic coherence and a constant experimentation with language give Zanzotto's work particular longevity. The silence of Nature, the violence of History, order and disorder, science, the sacred, human knowledge, the landscape and the literary tradition, as well as day-to-day speech: Zanzotto's poetic work and linguistic innovation traverse the great questions of Western society, and translate them into a message of hope and an ode to reality.
Qiu Zhijie was born in the Fujian Province of China in 1969, and graduated from China Academy of Art, Printmaking department, Hangzhou, in 1992. He currently lives and works in Beijing and Hangzhou as an educator and artist. As an artist, Qiu is known for his calligraphy, photography and video-installation works. He had showed his works around the world, including in Inside Out: New Chinese Art, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; SFMOMA; Beijing in London, ICA, London; Translated Acts, Haus Der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin and the 25th São Paulo Biennial. He is a professor at the China Academy of Art, and a Co-Director of the Visual Culture Centre in the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou.
Etel Adnan
Maria Thereza Alves
Rosie Atkins
Yto Barrada
Gianfranco Baruchello
Gerry Bibby
Anna Blessmann
Stefano Boeri
John Brockman
Pablo Bronstein
Hélène Cixous
Emer Coleman
Pascal Cribier
Adam Curtis
Meghan DellaCrosse
David Deutsch
Elizabeth Diller
Jimmie Durham
Marcus du Sautoy
David Ellis
Brian Eno
Patrick Eyres
Hans-Peter Feldmann
FIELDCLUB
Sophie Fiennes
Avena Gallagher
Adriaan Geuze
Jef Geys
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Dan Graham
Rodney Graham
Sean Gullette
Fritz Haeg
Zarina Hashmi
Will Holder
Jennifer Jacquet
Charles Jencks
Koo Jeong-A
Alison Knowles
Pablo León De La Barra
Jonas Mekas
Catherine Mosbach
muf architecture/art
Christian Philipp Müller
Peter Murray-Rust
Silke Otto-Knapp
Mark Pagel
Philippe Parreno
Giuseppe Penone
Alice Rawsthorn
Carissa Rodriguez
David Rowan
Peter Saville
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
Denise Withers
Andrea Zanzotto
Qiu Zhijie
