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Artists
in Dialog: Alex Toland und Myriel Milicevic
- Wunschgarten: Wild Urban Offshoots |
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Art Laboratory Berlin is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition Wunschgarten: Wild Urban Offshoots by the artists Alex Toland and Myriel Milicevic - the second exhibition in our ongoing series Artists in Dialog. Each exhibition in Artists in Dialog takes the form of a discourse between two artists, whose work has a common point of contact (e.g. aesthetics, theme or process). Alex Toland and Myriel Milicevic both work on the border between art and life and environmental sciences. Toland considers the project 'habitat hacking' and Milicevic describes the project as 'reconstructing cross-species life worlds'. Together they have chosen the immediate area around Art Laboratory Berlin (the Soldiner Kiez) as a place to investigate interactions between the local human population and urban flora and fauna. The exhibition space will function as a laboratory for mapping, sketching, modelling and prototyping. |
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Wunschgarten is a series of dialogues: betweenthe artists and the local community, between city dwellers and nature, between urban planning and urban wilderness. As
cities creep further into wild landscapes, the wild moves into cities.
Urban habitats are places where plants and animals take up residence
alongside people. Too often though, space for nature is sealed off
by concrete constructions, resulting in a marked divide between
the space occupied by humans and the rest of the biotic community.
The Wunschgarten is an exploration of the city's wild features
and creatures, and a vision of utopian measures that reach beyond
existing mitigation schemes and municipal green-space planning.
The city becomes a garden of unexpected edible opportunities and
ideas to incubate and explode.
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