Occasionally, one picks flowers by the wayside… If you do this on a faraway continent like Australia, the outcome is somewhat surprising. I’ll leave the “real” names of those plants to the botanists, this is a more of a roadside diary…
This one is the first, 22 will follow.
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Travelling with plants: The Australian radio and sound artist Sophea Lerner travels with a suitcase fitted for the transport of garden plants.
A moveable feast, Porticulture grows where you go. A nomadic community garden for a nomadic community. By packing a garden into a suitcase I hoped to unpack some of the tensions between living a very mobile life and the necessity of grounding in place a garden usually requires.
Porticulture mobile garden was planted during Time Place Space Nomad residency New South Wales, Australia, 2014.
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Sophea Lerner is an Australian sonic media artist/researcher & broadcaster. She combines personal, mechanical, edible, spatial, digital and telephonic networks into dynamic, flexible & open architectures exploring sound in public space & shared listening.
Sandfly, Tasmania. 27. Nov. I am guest in the house of Julia Drouhin and Arjan Kok. The livingroom is full with music instruments, the kitchen full with shiny, brown bottles. Arjan explains how his home brew is done. Earlier this morning, the whole family has been exercising at the drums, hence the combination…
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Lautstrom/reboot fm – presented by Anna Bromley
Datscha-Radio – presented by Gabi Schaffner
Das Radio ist nicht Sibirien – Performance by Rafael Jové
Discussion with participants, moderation: Antje Vowinckel
Errant Bodies Sound Art SpaceKollwitzstrasse 9710435 Berlin
Railton would be a town that no one’d ever heard of – if it wasn’t for Neil Hurley. In 1999, he came, saw… and got his scissors out. Before, he says, “there was no reason you could think of to stop here (Number of inhabitants in 2009: 900) ” Now Railton “is put on the map” and people come from far and wide to admire theis miracle. Even the BBC visited and did an interview with him in his Magic Fibre Optics shop (That’s where the music in the background of our talks stems from).
More then 50 topiaries sit in Neils backyard, more than 600 decorate the streets and gardens of the town. Scrubbily or crew-cut, they sit, lie, lean or stand along the buildings and walks.
The interview is here on soundcloud. And the plant used for these beauties is mostly the Box Honeysuckle (Lonicea nitida).
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Beer tastes good! But will you really spend 8-10 Dollars on a glass/small bottle of Australian craft beer? The answer to this are home brewery kits! Look forward to an interview with a knowledgeable home brewer in Sandfly, Tasmania :)
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This weekend the cabin owners are expected back in Bogong village. The community’s sole gardener Marty is in charge for everthing here: Planting, cutting, clearing, weeding and even carpenter work. But he also knows about the history of the village, once the home of the dam builders of the Kiewa hydro scheme.
Enjoy:)
Here’s the link to soundcloud!
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