Another Planting Performance
The Allotment Plot thickens with another Planting Performance in the Garden at MERL (18/03/2010). The weather conditions were good for planting again. The day was pleasantly warm with the Spring...
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Planting Performance (3) 22/04/2010 took place on a bright, warm, sunny day, with not an April shower in sight. Tiny companion-planting seedlings were delicately transplanted from their pots in the...
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Ella Montt journeyed East from London to a specific Place, (for now an undisclosed location). Fields were traversed, conversations and images recorded as part of the Ella Montt’s methodology. The tree,...
View ArticleTolhurst Stockfree Organic Vegetables – March 2007 to February 2008
Kate Corder’s film Tolhurst Stockfree Organic Vegetables – March 2007 to February 2008 is currently on view at the Museum of English Rural Life until July 16th 2010. The film documents the growing...
View ArticlePlanting and Weeding
Planting Performance (4) occurred on 13/05/2010. The weather conditions were warm and sunny. For several days prior to the Planting event, it had looked like it may rain, the previous evening dark...
View ArticleGarlic Harvest Event at Allotment Plot
Allotment (1) Thursday 8th July 11am – 2pm at Allotment Plot in the garden at MERL. Garlic harvesting and Art conversation, bring your own lunch.
View ArticleGarlic Harvest a Performance
Allotment (1) took place on 8 July 2010 at Allotment Plot @MERLReading; the Garlic and Radar Onions were harvested. Please note this action was filmed as a Performance and will be shown in exhibition...
View ArticleTransplants
11th May 2011 – In the studio, the cultivation of Comfrey and Sweet Potato plants in glass jars continues. The Sweet Potato’s rhizomatic roots were accumulating in to an amazing mass at one end of the...
View ArticlePlanting Harvesting Drought Rain
25th May 2011 – At Allotment Plot 326, the first Garlic harvest of the year (2011) happened, (more to follow). Garlic Harvest = 5oz = 120g. Plants were transplanted from the fixed up greenhouse to...
View ArticleCultivation Field – Call for Papers and Proposals
Cultivation Field – Postgraduate Symposium – 28th September 2011 Exhibition – 28th September to 6th October 2011 University of Reading The premise for this Symposium and accompanying Exhibition is that...
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