BOTANICAL ANIMAL was a two-part event that consisted of an ARTIST TALK on November 30th and a TOMATO CANNING EVENT on December 1st, 2012.
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BOTANICAL
ANIMAL is a
two-part event that consists of an ARTIST TALK on November 30th and a TOMATO
CANNING EVENT on December 1st.
BOTANICAL ANIMAL features the work of Toronto-based multimedia artist Amanda Marya White, whose work explores the
relationships between people, cities and ecology. In her artist talk,
Amanda will introduce her body of work in a range of media from drawing to
performance and interventions, with a special focus on food-related projects.
This will provide a context for the TOMATO CANNING EVENT to take place
the following day.
During the
TOMATO CANNING EVENT, participants will be invited to can tomatoes together
while experiencing a multimedia installation by Amanda, including drawings,
photographic documentation and plants. This installation emerges from an
ongoing project in which Amanda develops a closed-loop system for growing her
own tomatoes. In her description of this process, she says: “I attempt
communication with plants by revisiting a mutual and biological relationship
that exists between mammals and their food plants. To do this, I incorporate
the natural cycle of a fruit-eating mammal (frugivore) and the principals of
seed dispersal into the human process of food crop cultivation.
I grow plants from the seeds of
cherry tomatoes that I first purchased from the grocery store, then ate, and
deposited in my waste. The seeds were then harvested from my waste, planted and
grown into fruiting plants. I am now continuing the cycle by eating and growing
further generations of the tomatoes. [This] is an ongoing project,
existing in my garden, and as a gallery installation.”
Participants will take home the
fruits of their labour in the form of a jar of very special tomatoes whose
origins surely won’t go unconsidered.
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