Artists in Dialog

Alex Toland: Personal Dispersal Mechanisms.
An Interactive Urban Exploration.

Sunday, August 30, 2009,




gallery installation







interactive urban exploration



urban plants are 'adopted' by participants



a polaroid of human and plant is taken



back at Art Laboratory Berlin

Natural distribution mechanisms of plant species are often severely obstructed in the city. Tree sponsorship is a popular and effective way of re-greening city parks and streets. Individual sponsors become personally linked to individual trees while beautifying the neighborhood and creating new habitats for birds, mammals and insects.

Artist Alex Toland takes this idea a step further by creating species partnerships for a day and encouraging personal interspecies relationships as a potential distribution mechanism. As part of the series Artists in Dialog at ART LABORATORY BERLIN the artist will realize a collaborative walk and installation project by leading a group of Berlin residents through part of the green corridor along the Panke and make personal introductions between individual people and plants. (more information)

Artists in Dialog

Alex Toland: Personal Dispersal Mechanisms.
An Interactive Urban Exploration.

Sunday, August 30, 2009, 4pm
(starting at Art Laboratory Berlin)





The US-American Environmental Artist Alex Toland creates artistic works at the borderline of art and ecology, ethnobotany, and urban architecture.

For Art Laboratory Berlin on August 30, 2009, she will lead a group of Berlin residents through part of the green corridor along the river Panke and make personal introductions between individual people and plants. Along the walk each participant will “adopt” a species for the day, which will hopefully lead to a longer friendship between man and weed, future recognition of the species and further interest and communication with others about the value of urban nature.

At the end of the walk the human portraits will be installed alongside the plant receptacles and descriptions at ART LABORATORY BERLIN, visually linking human diversity to plant biodiversity as a cultural asset.

For more information see http://artlaboratory-berlin.org/
and http://artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-event-5.htm

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Opening of the exhibition
Art and Law III
Seized - Critical Art Ensemble
& Institute for Applied Autonomy



More information to follow shortly