Description
In this event, hosted collaboratively by Bioart Society and Museum of Finnish Architecture, bioartistic approaches, storytelling, and plant cultivation meet the varied themes of the Garden Futures exhibition, with visual artist Lucy Davis' presentation of her project Crocodile Seeds, part of The Migrant Ecologies Project.Crocodile Seeds is an artistic research project that explores a 130-year-old dead crocodile, its history, and its contents. The 4.7 meters tall crocodile was killed in Singapore in 1888 and given to the British colonial Raffles Museum. It was stuffed with straw of yet unknown providence. From this straw, were gleaned cereal grains, and as-yet-unidentified plant and flower seeds. Organic farmer Magnus Selenius and his niece Embla Lindblad from Nyby Gård, Espoo, specialise in older cereal varieties, and are now trying to grow the seeds and cultivate a 'crocodile meadow'.
Another story of the crocodile concerns the historical figure of Pang Limah Ah Chong, a 19th C. Chinese, Taoist mystic and tin mine Triad leader in Colonial Malaya. According to an article in the Straits Times in 1948, his spirit resides in the same crocodile.
How might incongruous materials and beings, hosted by this colonial trophy, seed stories that inspire in a time of climate change?
| Aikajakso | 16 maalisk. 2024 |
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| Pidetty | Bioartsociety, Suomi |
| Tunnustuksen arvo | National |