Anna-Sofia Nylund with working group: The Garden

The site-specific performance Trädgården (The Garden) studies the power relationship between humans and plants. The performance challenges the presumption that humans have a right to use nature for our own pleasure, but also nature’s persuasive attempts to bewilder itself. In the end, who has power over whom?

“A woman snips off a leaf from a mint plant and mixes it in a cup of cold water. She sits down and looks out over the garden. In the back of the garden a gardener is weeding. The robotic lawn mower Bob runs around in circles. An undefinable invasive species is hovering in the periphery. Erecta – virens – Lupinus polyphyllus.”