A reading event at Zabriskie bookstore, Berlin.
Reading
Reading is as an important part of our programming, we enjoy reading together, alone, silently or aloud. We have held public reading events at the Institute for Contemporary Arts, London with the Of Animacy Reading Group and at Zabriskie bookstore, Berlin.
How Forests think
EDUARDO KOHN
“Recognizing how semiosis is something broader than the symbolic can allow us to see the ways we come to inhabit an ever-emerging world beyond the human.”
through vegetal being
LUCE IRIGARY & MICHAEL MARDER
“A tree can detect an impending earthquake days in advance because of its roots’ attunement to the minute vibrations of the subsoil.”
Oaxaca journal
OLIVER SACKS
“I am on my way to Oaxaca to meet up with some botanical friends for a fern foray. . .”
Book of feral flora
AMANDA ACKERMAN
“Gardening, and the science of weeding, is the study of reality and how it works.”
The invention of nature
ANDREA WULF
“Humboldt ‘read’ plants as others did books - and to him they revealed a global force behind nature, the movements of civilisations as well as landmass.”
DRAW IT WITH YOUR EYES CLOSED
PAPER MONUMENT (ED.)
“You have my permission to fail.”
Unlearning exercises
ART ORGANISATIONS AS SITES FOR UNLEARNING
“. . .our problematic relation with a sense of business arose. 'Feeling busy’ is a psychosomatic state that causes anxiety and frustration.”
Foliage plants for modern living
JANE COLEMAN HELMER
“Relax with foliage plants.”
THE BIOPHILIA EFFECT
CLEMENS G. ARVAY
“Plants communicate directly with our immune system and unconscious without us even needing to touch, much less swallow them.”
the wonder world of strange plants
MAX PARRISH
“The largest flower in the world lives on the roots of another plant.”
The human argument: The writing of agnes denes
AGNES DENES, ED. KLAUS OTTMANN
“A well-conceived work of art can motivate people, unite communities, and affect the future.”
SPACE AND COLOR IN JAPANESE FLOWER ARRANGEMENT
KASUMI TESHIGAWARA
“Even a casual glance around us reveals that plants exist in almost every conceivable form.”
INTO THE FOREST
MINA TABUCHI
“Amid the mist, I float in the forest as if i’m swimming.”
uncertainty & possibility
YOKO AKAMA, SARAH PINK & SHANTI
“Through this work we begin to ask, what if we take uncertainty and put it at the core of our investigatory and change-making practice?”
Dangerous plants
JOHN TAMPION
“Nothing is produced in nature without a reason.”
Trees
FOUNDATION CARTIER POUR CONTEMPORAIN
“Trees are extraordinary beings in every respect. You do not become the primary source of a planet’s life by chance.”
THE BOTANY OF DESIRE
MICHAEL POLLAN
“A psychoactive plant can open a door into a world of archetypal forms, or so they can appear.”
your illustrated guide to becoming one with the universe.
YUMI SAKUGAWA
“Lesson 4: Plant strange seeds and let strange things grow.”
ROOT TO STEM
ALEX LAIRD
“Following a root to stem approach to living is not only good for us but good for the planet too, because we are all interdependent.”
Wabi-sabi
LEONARD KOREN
“Truth comes from the observation of nature.”
SEX IN THE GARDEN
TOM RIKER AND HARVEY ROTTENBERG
“Most gardening books deal with the pragmatic values of gardening, never seem to touch on the inner activity of the garden. . .”
SLOW READER
ANA PAULA PAIS & CAROLYN F. STRAUSS (ED.)
“I consider the body as a starting point.”
My Grandfather’s tree
MAX LAMB
“There have been several significant trees in my life.”
THE OVERSTORY
RICHARD POWERS
“The pine she leans against says: Listen. There’s something you need to hear.”