Anarchy in the Garden™ is a mixture of DIY ingenuity and tried-and-true old timey techniques with a punk attitude. It’s not your grandma’s grandma’s garden. I’m not trying to reinvent the wheel; just give you my perspective, share my techniques, what works and what doesn’t. Most importantly I’ll share my failures so you don’t screw up 160 soil blocks like I did. http://www.anarchyinthegarden.com/
6 giugno 2009 - secondo incontro nazionale di Critical Garden
CriticalGarden è il nome di un movimento, o piuttosto di una rete di movimenti nata circa tre anni fa dal desiderio di alcuni gruppi guerrilla gardening italiani di condividere la loro passione per il “giardinaggio selvaggio” e di arricchire la loro esperienza con le esperienze di altri attivisti che a Milano come a Bologna, a Torino come a Roma, adottano aiuole e terreni abbandonati. A un primo incontro nazionale tenutosi a giugno 2007 presso lo spazio pubblico autogestito XM24 di Bologna, si sono susseguite una serie di relazioni, di scambi e di collaborazioni tra i diversi collettivi che hanno poi continuato, ciascuno nella propria città, a coinvolgere nuovi attivisti, a lanciare nuovi progetti ed eventi, ad organizzare mostre e workshop.
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synopsis: The fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles is the largest of its kind in the United States. Started as a form of healing after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992, the South Central Farmers have since created a miracle in one of the country’s most blighted neighborhoods. Growing their own food. Feeding their families. Creating a community.But now, bulldozers are poised to level their 14-acre oasis.The Garden follows the plight of the farmers, from the tilled soil of this urban farm to the polished marble of City Hall. Mostly immigrants from Latin America, from countries where they feared for their lives if they were to speak out, we watch them organize, fight back, and demand answers:Why was the land sold to a wealthy developer for millions less than fair-market value? Why was the transaction done in a closed-door session of the LA City Council? Why has it never been made public?And the powers-that-be have the same response: “The garden is wonderful, but there is nothing more we can do.”If everyone told you nothing more could be done, would you give up? The Garden has the pulse of verité with the narrative pull of fiction, telling the story of the country’s largest urban farm, backroom deals, land developers, green politics, money, poverty, power, and racial discord. The film explores and exposes the fault lines in American society and raises crucial and challenging questions about liberty, equality, and justice for the poorest and most vulnerable among us.
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“Our garden is a way to fight for a more just society. But it is not just the garden itself, but also the organization that it brings with it, and the way we organise it.”
Nadja, Community Garden, Buenos Aires
In the film series, “Another World is Plantable!”, community gardens in different parts of the world are presented. At the core of the film series are the activists from the community gardens, the gardens themselves, and the visions the activists have of them. They recount how and why their gardens are not just green oases in the middle of the city, but much more than that projects that bring into being ‘another world’. The documentary film series takes up these ideas and connects them to emancipatory projects in different parts of the world.
Nell’ambito della 53a Biennale Arte di Venezia, aMAZElab presenta The Mobile Garden, la prima monografia italiana dedicata all’opera di Lois Weinberger, protagonista con Franziska Weinberger del Padiglione Austria alla rassegna veneziana. Il volume curato da Claudia Zanfi, è pubblicato da Damiani Editore, in italiano + inglese, pagg. 100, 60 foto a colori, contributi critici degli artisti, Catherine David, Tom Trevor, Christoph Bertsch, documenta oltre trent’anni di attività degli artisti viennesi e le loro riflessioni sul rapporto tra arte e natura.
Il libro sarà disponibile presso i due Bookstore della Biennale Arte di Venezia e durante l’opening del Padiglione Austria Venerdì 5 giugno 2009 dalle ore 17.00, alla presenza degli artisti.