<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Hi Johannes,<br><br></div>I will try to answer your question about performance and documentation in relation to my Frugivore project. <br></div>Working with plants in this case is both private and a public in some ways. When I am working on this project, I am engaged in a very intimate relationship with the tomato plants, I'm trying not to say that anthropomorphically, but quite literally in that what I consider to be the performance in this case, is when the seeds are traveling through my digestive system, which prepares them for germination. In this way, the work is a meditation on this mutual, biological, symbiotic relationship. While I am personally aware of the process, and the seeds (and later plants) are participating in it as well it is not visible to an audience. Documentation is therefore problematic without simply illustrating the process through a didactic or diagram. I was able to use microscopic images to document the seeds before and after, and i created botanical drawings that illustrated this relationship and documented the various plants in lieu of a text didactic, however the major documentation of the work is the plants themselves. When I show this work, I show the plants, and always with some edible component, whether it be fruiting plants in a greenhouse installation or garden, prepared sun-dried fruits, or a workshop using the tomatoes to cook. Using these stretegies allows anyone who wished to experience the work first-hand access by eating the fruit, they can consider its history, and choose whether to participate in this relationship as well. The audience may react with disgust or interest but are able to visualize the process through eating. I am also always amazed at the mass of plants that can by produced via this process, that the combination of these seeds and my simple bodily processes can generate rooms full of enormous edible plants.<br><br><br><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Murat Nemet-Nejat <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:muratnn@gmail.com" target="_blank">muratnn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><a href="http://amandamarya.com" target="_blank">amandawhite.com</a><br></div>
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