eat borders is a sound and dining installation, which invites participants to reflect upon the radical potential of the garden and the practice of gardening in the city.
A table gathers together five stories that are accessible by text, audio, and food. The stories, which are themselves intertwined with personal and political layers, collectively analyse the concept of urban gardening by deconstructing some of the conventional ‘borders’ that are imposed upon gardens and which keep the practice of gardening in a rather dormant state. Such borders deny gardening its potential as a transformative force within the city, and within future cities, for nurturing sustainable, edible, and solidary environments.
Visitors to the garden of Casa Zemstvei are invited to participate in the installation by taking a place at the table and then listening, reading, and even tasting the five stories, thereby addressing the borders that each story overcomes. The table is a representation both of the future we envision and of the radical potential of gardening itself: to bring people together at one table (even strangers), to facilitate exchange between cultures, practice sympathy for one another, reclaim the city for everyday joys, re-envision the garden as a multi-use and resource space, and get over socially constructed boundaries in our heads.
Parking lot cucumbers, Sandu Macrinici
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Garden Escapees, Catherine Greiner
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Cultivating connections the intercultural language of gardening, Iryna Bakhcheva
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The Multi-Energy Garden, Jeremy Knowles
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The garden is still a possibility, Lilia Nenescu
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Menu
Eat borders salad
wild rocket / Diplotaxis tenuifolia (circus urban garden)
dandelion / Taraxacum (circus urban garden)
yarrow / Achillea millefolium (circus urban garden)
prairie fleabane / Erigeron strigosus (foraged from La Izvor park)
viper’s bugloss / Echium vulgare (foraged from La Izvor park)
purple deadnettle / Lamium purpureum (foraged from La Izvor park)
nasturtium leafs (Guguță urban garden)
mix of cherry tomatoes (tanti Maria from Pârâta)
cucumbers (tanti Maria from Pârâta)
cougettes (Sandu’s home garden, Ciorescu)
Eat borders tea
common hop / Humulus lupulus (foraged from Berlin)
fennel / Foeniculum vulgare (foraged from Berlin)
blackberry / Rubus fruticosus (foraged from Berlin)
sunflower (foraged from Berlin)
mellissa (Sandu’s home garden, Ciorescu)
marigold (Sandu’s home garden, Ciorescu)
cornflower (foraged from Chisinau)
raspberry (from Nenea Gheorghe from Grătiești)
