22-24 July, 5 – 9 pm
silent green Berlin, Atelier 1
For the Mistura workshop, we are looking for 20 participants with diverse backgrounds, in terms of age, physical and cognitive conditions, cultural origins, sexual orientations and gender identities. The objective of this project is to explore our capacity for transformation and create new emotional alliances.
The Open Call closes on 7 July. Selected participants will be informed by 13 July.
Our milpa consists of flying potatoes, edible flowers, climbing pumpkins, hanging watermelons and different kinds of coloured beans, among others. We travelled here from various Mayan milpas in Southern Mexico – where we had been for centuries, but now we are on different grounds… they call it Berlin. In our ecosystem, resources (water, light, soil) are used in a complementary way, and all participants benefit from each other's presence. We were brought here to slowly weave onto a temporary installation that will become our parliament.
Here, we get together, humans and non-humans, to grow, to connect, to create something new. A place built by feelings, cosmovision, social relations, biodiversity and knowledge. Here, we dream of new realities.
"The Vegetable Parliament" is a public art project in the garden of silent green that explores the milpa as a metaphor for an imaginary more-than-human societal model. At its core is a living inhabitable installation; a speculative parliament for utopian visions and possible futures of local socio-/ecosystems. As it evolves throughout the seasons, each visitor and each activation becomes an intricate part of the milpa.
Visit us, become a part of us.. We invite you to think differently, to leave any preconceived ideas of the possible behind. To play seriously, or as children play – when we play, we believe it.
* an ancient Mayan agrarian practice, a field for growing food crops used throughout Mesoamerica
"The Vegetable Parliament" is funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds.