SAVOIR-VIVRE #6
HERBARIUM WORKSHOP
at ar/ge kunst
with Andreas Hilpold, botanist, Eurac Research, Institute for Alpine Environment, Bolzano and Petra Mair, botanist, Naturmuseum Südtirol, Bozen
curated by BAU
In collaboration with Eurac Research, Institute for Alpine Environment, Bolzano and Naturmuseum Südtirol, Bolzano
The exhibition Brutal Family Roots by Franco-Algerian artist Mohamed Bourouissa visualizes forms of collaboration and dialogue with various subjectivities; besides a psychiatrist and a passer-by he also gives plants a significant voice. Bourouissa is interested in the migratory patterns of plant species, their historical links to colonial expeditions and their divisive separation into indigenous, foreign and invasive species. In the video installation Incomplete Herbarium (2020) Bourouissa supplements an anonymous herbarium found at the public library in Bilda, critically exploring its categorizations and taxonomies.
The flora of Bolzano also consists largely of non-autochthonous plants, a fact that poses questions about origins, belonging, and division into categories. Together with botanist Andreas Hilpold (Institute for Alpine Environment, Eurac Bolzano) and botanist Petra Mair (Naturmuseum Südtirol) workshop participants will learn how to go about compiling a herbarium – collecting, pressing and describing plants.
What is a herbarium entry? What information needs to be documented when collecting a specimen? What does it mean to curate a herbarium?
The Herbarium workshop is part of the workshop series savoir–vivre, which is conceived in parallel to the ar/ge kunst exhibition programme. The title savoir-vivre is based on a re-reading of the terms savoir and pouvoir in the work of Gayatri Spivak, co-founder of postcolonial theory, where knowledge (savoir) is not only linked to power but also to the condition of being able to (pouvoir). This combination of verbs turns the institution into a public space of negotiation and agency where an exploration of different forms of skills and competences produces collective knowledge.
maximum 20 participants
attendance free
language: deu/ita
registration at [email protected]
With the kind support of:
Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano, Ripartizione Cultura
Nuovi Mecenati – Fondazione franco-italiana di sostegno alla creazione contemporanea
Regione Autonoma Trentino Alto Adige
Comune di Bolzano, Ripartizione Cultura
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Bolzano
Dr Schär
