PETER KÆRGAARD ANDERSEN
PROJECTS
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ABOUT
A Garden - Lines, Threads and Traces
A speculative mapping of garden communities. Workshops, art/poetry/essay publication and more.
Collaboration with poet and writer Helene Johanne Christensen
The world is not a blank slate. Every place is already filled with lines, threads, and traces of life that continuously shape and reshape the site. When creating a garden, one inevitably disrupts the existing lines of the place and creates new ones. The design of the garden takes place through a collaboration between humans, the non-human inhabitants of the garden, and passing forces such as wind, rain, and sun. Each and every one draws lines in the garden and is a co-creator. In this project we, inspired by Tim Ingold’s book Lines, Jane Bennet’s concept of onto-sympaties and ideas of eros and kinship, depart from the hypothesis that by mapping the lines of the garden—the diversity of threads and traces—we can uncover the intricate community that the garden embodies. Doing this we embedded ourselves in the daily life and work in the Garden of Rønnebæksholm Art Center, and developed a series of speculative mapping techniques, including: Insect stalking, vertical dreaming, plant and gardener croquis, wild-life photography, the method of eroticism and ontosympathy, letter-writing to the inhabitants and garden poetry. Some of these techniques where delevop into workshops with different groups such as; visitors, school students, volunteers and art professionals of the museum.
Images, examples of plant croquis, the wind is playing with two Common Poppies
Images below from top left: workshop equipment (@photo Julie Nymann), an incomplete 3D scan of a compost-specimen, garden mapping in practice(@JN), a love letter to the compost, a letter to the pheasant Ferdinand, poetry readings (@JN), gardener croquis, school student’s vertical dreaming, wild-life photography of a hooded crow, onto-sympathy after Della Porta’s Natural Magic, weeding out.
Collaboration with poet and writer Helene Johanne Christensen
The world is not a blank slate. Every place is already filled with lines, threads, and traces of life that continuously shape and reshape the site. When creating a garden, one inevitably disrupts the existing lines of the place and creates new ones. The design of the garden takes place through a collaboration between humans, the non-human inhabitants of the garden, and passing forces such as wind, rain, and sun. Each and every one draws lines in the garden and is a co-creator. In this project we, inspired by Tim Ingold’s book Lines, Jane Bennet’s concept of onto-sympaties and ideas of eros and kinship, depart from the hypothesis that by mapping the lines of the garden—the diversity of threads and traces—we can uncover the intricate community that the garden embodies. Doing this we embedded ourselves in the daily life and work in the Garden of Rønnebæksholm Art Center, and developed a series of speculative mapping techniques, including: Insect stalking, vertical dreaming, plant and gardener croquis, wild-life photography, the method of eroticism and ontosympathy, letter-writing to the inhabitants and garden poetry. Some of these techniques where delevop into workshops with different groups such as; visitors, school students, volunteers and art professionals of the museum.
Images, examples of plant croquis, the wind is playing with two Common Poppies
Images below from top left: workshop equipment (@photo Julie Nymann), an incomplete 3D scan of a compost-specimen, garden mapping in practice(@JN), a love letter to the compost, a letter to the pheasant Ferdinand, poetry readings (@JN), gardener croquis, school student’s vertical dreaming, wild-life photography of a hooded crow, onto-sympathy after Della Porta’s Natural Magic, weeding out.
Projects
What the World Eats / Rooibooooit Antecessorem
Experimental Video. Future scenario. Art, science, technology collaboration.
# - Food and technology, speculative futures, environment and materiality, robotics and humusities.
Digital Temporalities / Diorama #1
Print - ongoing trajectory. # Media and memory, digital archives, geology and digitalism.
A Garden - Lines, Traces and Threads
Garden Workshops, art/poetry/essay publication and more. # Gardening, fabulation, fieldwork of lines, onto-sympaties, eros and garden-kinships.
Sea Moon Traveller
Video
# Seaside archives and heritages, memory and landscape, tourists and moths, origin stories, water and life.
Botanical Relics
Tapestries / Installation
# Coastal Landscapes, plant, pathway and industries’ archives.
Shell Time
Video
# Cosmicomics, time and finitudes, shells and seasides.
Facsimile
Textiles, photographies & film. # Urban intercultures, fieldwork, repitition and difference.
Selam Selam / When Stranges Move In
Essayistic documentary, workshops.
# Participatory filmmaking, fieldwork, mobiilty, becoming and identity.
Poster Campaigns
Urban interventions, posters, video & performances.
# Social engaged art, fieldwork, participatory design, street vendors, urban space and play.
The People’s Park / African Cup of Nations
Events, posters, video & performance.
# Social engaged art, fieldwork, football, soap opera, streaming, open air cinema.