Ignota
Ignota, Memory Garden, 2022. Commissioned by Biennale Gherdëina ∞. Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Ignota (Sarah Shin and Ben Vickers) describe themselves as “an experiment in techniques of awakening”. For Biennale Gherdëina ∞, Ignota presents Memory Garden and Seeds, respectively a garden installation in Castel Gardena/Fischburg and a publication project. Memory Garden is conceived as a seed containing the possibility of worlds within worlds within worlds: a fairy tale in a garden in a valley; a temple that is also a mountain; a ritual for healing in the shape of a circle. Drawing from mnemotechnics, or ars memoriae, the Garden is associated with the moon’s cycle of life and death and the songs of plants attuned to the planets. Memory – the timeless river of consciousness that connects myth, form and viriditas – is grown collectively by plants, minerals, animal and human visitors from a variety of seed: biological, ritual and textual. Memory Garden explores the intimacy between language and ecology for healing – the deep and implicit memory of simultaneous, interconnected and enfolded realities in an inherently relational universe. Seeds, accompanying the visitor’s passage through the Gate and into the medicinal and magical Garden, contains plant rituals that show the way to the Mountain and the Oracle through the work of dreaming, releasing, planting and expanding.
Memory Garden Ritual, performance by Ignota. Opening of Biennale Gherdëina ∞, 21.05.2022. Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Ignota, Memory Garden, 2022. Commissioned by Biennale Gherdëina ∞. Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
“Once upon a time, a traveller came to this garden seeking a remedy. She drank of the plants and when she woke, it was into a dream: a ubiquitous greenness that was light and heat and matter and sound. The greenness was at the same time everywhere and a garden in a dome and the architecture of the dream, too. In this dome, the plants were words, signifying. One opened to show itself to her, and its body spelled love…”
Ignota
Ignota, Memory Garden, 2022. Commissioned by Biennale Gherdëina ∞. Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Ignota (Sarah Shin and Ben Vickers) describe themselves as “an experiment in techniques of awakening”. For Biennale Gherdëina ∞, Ignota presents Memory Garden and Seeds, respectively a garden installation in Castel Gardena/Fischburg and a publication project. Memory Garden is conceived as a seed containing the possibility of worlds within worlds within worlds: a fairy tale in a garden in a valley; a temple that is also a mountain; a ritual for healing in the shape of a circle. Drawing from mnemotechnics, or ars memoriae, the Garden is associated with the moon’s cycle of life and death and the songs of plants attuned to the planets. Memory – the timeless river of consciousness that connects myth, form and viriditas – is grown collectively by plants, minerals, animal and human visitors from a variety of seed: biological, ritual and textual. Memory Garden explores the intimacy between language and ecology for healing – the deep and implicit memory of simultaneous, interconnected and enfolded realities in an inherently relational universe. Seeds, accompanying the visitor’s passage through the Gate and into the medicinal and magical Garden, contains plant rituals that show the way to the Mountain and the Oracle through the work of dreaming, releasing, planting and expanding.
Memory Garden Ritual, performance by Ignota. Opening of Biennale Gherdëina ∞, 21.05.2022. Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Ignota, Memory Garden, 2022. Commissioned by Biennale Gherdëina ∞. Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
“Once upon a time, a traveller came to this garden seeking a remedy. She drank of the plants and when she woke, it was into a dream: a ubiquitous greenness that was light and heat and matter and sound. The greenness was at the same time everywhere and a garden in a dome and the architecture of the dream, too. In this dome, the plants were words, signifying. One opened to show itself to her, and its body spelled love…”