Lisa Hinterreithner: This is not a garden

vegetal encounters

A place to live life at a slower pace, a place where humans are guests and plants are in charge.

No garden, no oasis, no idyllic and lavishly green scenery, but a potentially sensual and strange retreat for humans and plants. In This is not a garden, a human-vegetal utopian vision and dystopian reality seem to overlap. An old dimly lit wood-paneled gym invites us to engage with and embrace that which is vegetal. A place to live life at a slower pace, a place where humans are guests and plants are in charge: sprouting, dry and dead things next to moldy, wet, and living things. The performers lay a trail to new transcorporeal arrangements. Legs connected to flowers, bottoms, leaves, heads, stems, hands, branches. What can happen if we allow ourselves to be intimate with plants? An encounter of a different kind.