TY - ADVS
T1 - Capacity does not explain but cultivates a September garden
T2 - We Are Publication
A2 - Allen, Jonathan
A2 - Cattle, Rachel
A2 - Collins, Jenna
A2 - Eichelmann, Volker
A2 - Hughes, John
A2 - Newby, Christian
A2 - Stokes, Andrea
A2 - Balaskas, Bill
A2 - Bennett, Sarah
A2 - Ulrich, Antonia
A2 - Voigt, Ingo
A2 - Erasmus, Jarrett
A2 - Heymans, Simone
A2 - de Jaeger, Maureen
A2 - Linders, Raphaela
A2 - Michnowska, Paulina
A2 - Omar Elmi, Hodan
A2 - Swaby, Nadia
A2 - Rivas Velásquez, Mónica
A2 - Aerial Waller, Mark
A2 - de Kersaint Giraudeau, Mathew
PY - 2022/6/11
Y1 - 2022/6/11
N2 - Modes of collage have been a central preoccupation for the artists group We Are Publication (WAP). In 2020, its participants set out to cultivate an artwork ‘grown’ from several discreet constituents. To that end, WAP drew on contemporary American poet Rosemarie Waldrop’s recent appellation ‘gap gardening’ to suggest that the placement of words (and plants) generates intermedial zones of transformation and potential. Initially, visual and textual ‘seedlings’ were ‘planted’ in the form of a custom-produced newspaper sent to WAP’s participants during a period of national lockdown. Repeated physical engagement with this newsprint composite gave rise to the ‘September Garden’, a nascent domain that, in its first season, took the form of ‘plots’ comprising collages and textual assemblages. This productive terrain was then replanted, cut back, and otherwise tended to, before being presented online in its second season as the moving-image work Placement does not explain, but cultivates a September garden. For the Whitstable Biennale 2022, WAP’s experiment in jointly conducted research / speculative publishing returns to its newsprint origins as a new paper edition for distribution at horticultural locations around Whitstable, enfolding contributions from the core members of WAP and our extended network.
AB - Modes of collage have been a central preoccupation for the artists group We Are Publication (WAP). In 2020, its participants set out to cultivate an artwork ‘grown’ from several discreet constituents. To that end, WAP drew on contemporary American poet Rosemarie Waldrop’s recent appellation ‘gap gardening’ to suggest that the placement of words (and plants) generates intermedial zones of transformation and potential. Initially, visual and textual ‘seedlings’ were ‘planted’ in the form of a custom-produced newspaper sent to WAP’s participants during a period of national lockdown. Repeated physical engagement with this newsprint composite gave rise to the ‘September Garden’, a nascent domain that, in its first season, took the form of ‘plots’ comprising collages and textual assemblages. This productive terrain was then replanted, cut back, and otherwise tended to, before being presented online in its second season as the moving-image work Placement does not explain, but cultivates a September garden. For the Whitstable Biennale 2022, WAP’s experiment in jointly conducted research / speculative publishing returns to its newsprint origins as a new paper edition for distribution at horticultural locations around Whitstable, enfolding contributions from the core members of WAP and our extended network.
KW - Collage
KW - Rosemary Waldrop
KW - Newspaper
KW - Collaborative reserach
KW - Practice as research
M3 - Artefact
ER -