Title & Author:

Botanical drift : protagonists of the invasive herbarium / edited by Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll ; chapters by Germaine Greer [and twenty-five others].

Publication:

Berlin : Sternberg Press, [2017]
©2017

Description:

237 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, plans ; 23 cm

Notes:
Title information from cover and colophon.
Contributors: David Edward Allen & Maria Buzhor, Rebecca Anderson, Bergit Arends & Sunoj D, Connie Butler & Hazel Dowling, Caroline Cornish & Mark Nesbitt, Alfred Döblin, Natasha Eaton, Germaine Greer, Kim Berit Heppelmann, Emma Waltraud Howes, Melanie Jackson, Alana Jelinek, Philip Kerrigan, Kay Evelina Lewis-Jones, Claire Loussouarn, Wietske Maas, Natasha Myers, Matteo Pasquinelli, Raqs Media Collective, herman de vries, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll.
"Botanical Drift: Protagonists of the Invasive Herbarium is a series of performances in Kew Botanical Gardens curated with Petra Lange-Berndt and Mark Nesbitt, including 20 other authors and artists such as Germaine Greer and herman de vries in a series of interventions into the Economic Botany collection. The Sternberg anthology I edited will be launched at Motto Berlin with an exhibition of an artists edition of the book. After a conference at UCL we edited all these contributions into a volume for Sternberg Press, which is beautifully illustrated by A Practise for Everyday Life who managed to bring together the cornucopia of materials that include photographs from dance to archives, screen prints, flower presses and all sorts of other things made for the drift. "--Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll website (viewed February 8, 2023).
"Published to follow a workshop held at Kew Gardens in 2014, Botanical Drift explores the notion of economic botany, investigating plant cultivation, diversification and destruction throughout history and around the globe. The book incorporates contributions from a diverse range of feminist, art-historical, and anthropological voices, and interrogates its subject through photo-essays, fiction, documented performance and archival interventions. The design of Botanical Drift makes oblique reference to the book's subject matter: the bespoke lettering on the screen-printed cover was drawn from plant specimen labels found at Kew Gardens, with additional fern-like ornamentation, and the recycled board with which the book is bound is a nod to traditional field guides. Within the book, the varied grid reflects the layout of the Marianne North gallery at Kew,1 and in the running headings, the word 'Drift' drifts back and forth to animate when the pages are flipped. The perforated rear cover flap can be ripped from the book block to create a bookmark."--A Practice for Everyday Life website https://apracticeforeverydaylife.com/projects/botanical-drift-protagonists-of-the-invasive-herbarium/ (viewed February 8, 2023).
Cover title.
Includes bibliographical references.
The Useless and Confusing: Vegetable Philosophies and Performances in the Kew Economic Botany Collection / -- The Life Cycle of a Museum / Caroline Cornish & Mark Nesbitt -- The Swan Plant: Did It Drift or Was It Pushed / Germaine Greer -- Māori Nomenclature and Colonial Classification in the William Colenso Archive / Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll -- Subcutaneous "Ha-has" and the Evolution of Polymorphic Animalcules / Emma Waltraud Howes -- The Making of a Dress / Kim Berit Heppelmann -- Dancing with Nature off the Leash / Claire Loussouarn -- An Anthropologist among Artists in the Gardens / Natasha Myers -- "Plants in their Homes" or the Tendency to Strangle the Other with Anthropomorphism / Philip Kerrigan, Alana Jelinek, & Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll -- On Beautiful Weeds and Invasive Plants: Joseph Henry Maiden's Correspondence with Kew / Rebecca Anderson -- The Subversive Potential of Seeds: A Performance in Three Acts (2010, 2013, 2014) / Bergit Arends & Sunoj D -- A Seed in Stasis: Seed Banking and the Gardening of the Wild / Kay Evelina Lewis-Jones -- An Afternoon Unregistered on the Richter Scale / Raqs Media Collective -- Indigo Drift: Raqs Media Collective and Sepia Blues in the Colonial Archive / Natasha Eaton -- Coco Indécent / Melanie Jackson -- Arbor Inversa: The Intelligence of an Inverted Tree / Matteo Pasquinelli -- "Die Ermordung einer Butterblume," in Der Sturm (September 8, 1910 and September 15, 1910) / Alfred Döblin -- The Murder of a Buttercup / Wietske Maas -- Flora Exotica: A Pteridomanic Performance / Connie Butler & Hazel Dowling -- I AM / herman de vries -- Prunus laurocerasus and Other Species / Alana Jelinek -- Ultra-humanity / David Edward Allen & Maria Buzhor.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Architecture and/for the Environment", 2017-2019, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Summary:

"Botanical Drift explores the hermeneutics, historicization, semiotics, and symbiosis of plant diversification, species cultivation, and destruction--past and present, extant and extinct--around the globe. Plant histories are explored as commodities and colonial as well as decolonial devices by significant and diverse feminist, art-historical, and anthropological voices--from Germaine Greer to herman de vries--bringing new perspectives through photo-essays, fiction, performance, and interventions in ecological, film, and translation archives. Reflecting on experimental ecology--the undiscovered, underestimated, and undesired non-European flora and fauna--it challenges perception and inspires potentialities to bring new understandings of the undergrowth of the Kew Gardens botany collection."-- Publisher's website.

ISBN:

9783956793530 (pbk.)
3956793536

Subject:

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Plants in art.
Botany in art.
Arts, Modern 21st century.
Performance art 21st century.
Arts 21e siècle.
Arts, Modern

Added entries:

Carroll, Khadija von Zinnenburg, 1980- editor.
Greer, Germaine, 1939- writer of supplementary textual content.
Practice for everyday life.

Protagonists of the invasive herbarium

Holdings:

Location: Library main 300620
Call No.: BIB 246818
Status: Available