Here is a recommendation for an exhibition in the Berlin Gropius Bauwhere I will be talking about balcony gardening on four different dates:
Down to Earth
August 13 to September 13, 2020
“Down to Earth” is an exhibition and at the same time a Unplugged program with daily changing live offers, which explores the question of how the agenda of a climate policy turnaround affects our own “operating system”. How can we sustainably change the way we work, eat, travel or exhibit?
This horticultural performance particularly appealed to me: Brandenburg soil with a very high sand content is mixed with Berlin aggregate waste materials and cultivated. Anyone who wants to can take a bag of the mixed/cultivated soil home with them. I will probably grow Asian lettuce on it.
The description reads as follows: Together with the “cultivators” of his installation, Asad Raza mixes waste materials from the museum and the city to create a space consisting of 20 tons of fertile soil that you can take home for your own projects.
I found it very exciting. Then I became part of this great exhibition. The balcony box with chard, kale, sunflowers, French cabbage, Asian lettuce and pictures of the organic balcony took center stage. My biotope on the balcony. Experience nature and harvest happiness in the middle of the city.
The curator approached me — enthusiastic about the lively, exemplary lecture. He even wanted to tend my balcony box on the roof terrace. I gladly accepted this special invitation.
Magic with goldfinches and sunflowers
Here, too, the sunflower seeds attract goldfinches. When the sunflower seeds ripen and become milky, the goldfinches notice this. They fly in and feed on the seeds. This little miracle of nature works even in the middle of the city, on a roof terrace built into a block of houses, and I am always amazed by it.
A mobile garden is being created on the south side.
Let’s go to the Gropius Bau Berlin. I can speak again on Sunday, August 23rd at 1 and 2 pm. I will be traveling again with a balcony box.
“Down to Earth“Our summer at the Gropius Bau: four weeks without electricity, loudspeakers, videos, screens, air travel, spotlights, but with daylight, heat, recycling, analog music, dance, talks with experts on change, exhibits on the ocean, Gaia, puddles of water, living earth, a sawn-up Porsche, modern rituals, in the spirit of Latour, Margulis, Lovelocks and the Shipibo — 14 rooms, different every day.
DOWN TO EARTH
Climate Art Discourse — Climate Art Discourse
unplugged
13.8. — 13.9.20
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