Melanie Bonajo

Night Soil – Nocturnal Gardening & Manimal

  • Film
English / 

Visual artist Melanie Bonajo’s work is shaped by her critical stance towards capitalism and her ambivalence regarding the blind celebration of progress. “Night Soil – Nocturnal Gardening” draws portraits of four women who have created communities in which they enter into intimate and sustainable relationships with their environments. They do not simply articulate a pessimist critique of civilization, but seek to establish new agreements between humans, animals, and nature. To achieve this goal, they take cues from social movements and structures of self-organization. It is for this reason that “Manimal” also bespeaks the desire for an intimate relationship with the environment.

Dates

Past
  • Thu 28.9.2017, 18:00 / HAU2
  • Fri 29.9.2017, 18:00 / HAU2
  • Sat 30.9.2017, 18:00 / HAU2
  • Thu 5.10.2017, 17:00 / HAU2
  • Fri 6.10.2017, 17:00 / HAU2
  • Sun 8.10.2017, 17:00 / HAU2

Credits

Supported by the Federal Agency for Civic Education. Courtesy of AKINCI & the artist.

Location

HAU2
Hallesches Ufer 34, 10963 Berlin

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