Botanical Encounters is inviting you for a live projection event outside the 44AD Artspace in Bath on Thursday on 7th April 19.00-20.30. Meet us at 4 Abbey Street, Bath BA11NN. The event is free and open to anyone interested in decolonising the way we imagine plants and green spaces and who wants to share a free drink that is 100% plant-based (such as beer/wine/juice…).
Time of workshop: Thursday 7th April 19.00-20.30
Place: 44AD Artspace, 4 Abbey Street, Bath BA11NN
Contributors: anyone interested in the topic is welcome to submit artwork to our padlet: https://padlet.com/ch970/Bookmarks password: botanical22
Participants: the event is free and open to anyone interested in decolonising the way we imagine plants and green spaces and who wants to share a free drink that is 100% plant-based (such as beer/wine/juice…)
Outcomes: a series of images shared via padlet will be projected on Friday 7th April onto the façade of 44AD.
Aim: Join a creative conversation
This event draws on an online workshop that took place on 21st March 2022 via Zoom and used creativity as a tool to explore botanical encounters between cultures. During and after the workshops, participants were invited to create representations of plants and share their creative work via padlet. We will now project the submitted artworks to the façade of a Georgian building in the centre of Bath, to see our drawings come alive, turning the city’s public space into a temporary open-air gallery. It is still possible to submit creative work via https://padlet.com/ch970/Bookmarks password: botanical22.
The city of Bath, home to Georgian pleasure gardens and museum collections displaying art objects and artefacts representing Old and New World plants has important colonial legacies which we can see in museum collections. Examples include the sugar spoons at Beckford’s Tower, the lavish dinner table packed with sugar-coated sweets at No1 Royal Crescent or the luxurious China teacups and other plant-decorated objects at the Holburne museum, but also the many exogeneous plants growing in the city’s parks and gardens. This project is proposing to critically reflect on the different meanings that local and “exotic” plants have for us. Through a series of talks, walks and creative workshops to engage with legacies, we attempt to deconstruct colonial influences in botanical art and the impact of the Eurocentrism in knowledge production about plants.
If you missed our launch event, you can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx031az_HBA&t=4509s
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