plants as a site of knowledge
Film screening (in person and online), billboards and workshop
Billboards presentation: 24.05.2023 / 19:30 Uhr Film screening: 24.05.2023 / 20:00 Uhr Botanical walk: 25.05.2023 / 17:30 Uhr Online film screening: 25.05.-01.06.2023 / 20:00-21:35 Uhr
Flucc Wienhttps://href.li/?https://www.fluc.at, Praterstern 5, 1020 Vienna
Online film screening: https://streaming.goldenpixelcoop.comhttps://href.li/?https://streaming.goldenpixelcoop.com
Films by: Patricia Esquivias, Hanna Rullmannhttps://href.li/?http://www.hanna-rullmann.com & Faiza Ahmad Khan, Shireen Senohttps://shireenseno.tumblr.com, Tin Wilkehttps://href.li/?https://tinwilke.xyz & Miguel Goyahttps://href.li/?http://bucovinacine.com Billboards by: Pille-Riin Jaikhttps://href.li/?https://pilleriinjaik.com Botanical walk by: Birgit Lahnerhttps://href.li/?http://www.birgitlahner.at Curated by: Enar de Dios Rodríguez and Marlies Pöschl, The Golden Pixel Cooperative
The film programme plants as a site of knowledge collects stories about the relationship between plants and memory, accounts that inform about the socio-political and economic entanglements present in ecosystems’ histories. What kind of memory do plants carry with them? To what extent are they part of cultural memory? Can time be turned back in ecosystems and if so, what are the (political) implications? The films that will be presented during this screening reflect on how plants have been separated from their environment in the service of colonial representation or economic interests in order to circulate or be grown in another place.
Besides the screening, which will happen at flucc and will be available online via the GPC Online Screenhttps://href.li/?https://streaming.goldenpixelcoop.com for a week, there will be also a “botanical walk” around the flucc area lead by Birgit Lahner, and artworks by GPC member Pille-Riin Jaik will be presented on the flucc billboards.
FILM PROGRAMME
* Shireen Senohttps://shireenseno.tumblr.com/: To Pick a Flower, 2021, 17 min. * Patricia Esquivias: Cardón cardinal, 2020, 38:37 min. * Hanna Rullmannhttps://href.li/?http://www.hanna-rullmann.com & Faiza Ahmad Khan: Habitat 2190, 2019, 16:34 min. * Tin Wilkehttps://href.li/?https://tinwilke.xyz/ & Miguel Goyahttps://href.li/?http://bucovinacine.com/: Las Flores, 2022, 19 min.
BILLBOARDS Pille-Riin Jaikhttps://href.li/?https://pilleriinjaik.com/: Communal Weeds, 2023, intervention on billboards Weeds like to thrive on disturbed lands. Their favourite locations being next to train stations and roadsides. They adapt with ease to rather cruel conditions and enrich the damaged soils during transitory phases. Where there is a need, there’s weed. Deemed quite often unuseful and of disturbance by the pragmatists, weeds have developed various forms of counteractions and elaborate skills of perseverance. Like a many-headed monster, if it’s plucked out, a new, more-headed version will appear.
WORKSHOP Birgit Lahnerhttps://href.li/?http://www.birgitlahner.at: Botanical walk around the Flucc Past, present and future from a plant perspective The diversity of urban plants, especially the fragmented floodplain landscape in the 2nd district, but also the inconspicuous flora of the city’s wastelands and pavement cracks, often perceived at best as a backdrop, gradually come to the fore on this walk. This new view of urban vegetation allows us to recognise the manifold interrelationships between humans and plants and to marvel at their adaptability.
Max. 15 participants, registration at office@birgitlahner.atmailto:office@birgitlahner.at Please wear appropriate clothing, the walk will also take place in the event of rain.
Marlies Poeschl m.poeschl@akbild.ac.atmailto:m.poeschl@akbild.ac.at