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COLLECTING, SHOWING AND

STAGING PLANTS 


A FILMIC ANALYSIS OF THE BOTANICAL GARDEN BERLIN-DAHLEM:

• HISTORIES AND PROJECTIONS IN CONTEMPORANEITY 

• BARBARA MARCEL

BARBARA MARCEL

• Supervisors:
• Prof. Prof. Dr. phil Michael Lüthy - Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
• Prof. Dr. Livia Flores – Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ-EBA
• Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Ph.D. of Fine – Artistic Research (2nd semester)
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• ABSTRACT

ABSTRACT

Historiography as a contemporary art practice.

• The Botanical Garden Berlin-Dahlem as an image.
• Essayfilm and multi-perspective video installation.

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• I. A CULTURAL HISTORY OF GARDENS

The Garden - since ancient times, it has been perceived as a place of refuge from the everyday chaos of the City, an ideal scenario for the culture of free thinking, a space of isolated and controlled Nature.

• First Botanical Gardens - From the 16th century onwards, space for empirical
• bservation and scientific research.
• Michel Foucault Heterotopic Spaces. Typical modern spaces: library, museum,

botanical gardens.

• The Botanical Garden Berlin-Dahlem - Built between 1897-1910 by Adolf Engler

as a Research Centre of a Colonial Flora.

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SUBJECTS SUBJECTS

Landscape project of Adolf Engler for the new Botanical Garden in Berlin-Dahlem, 1904th.

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• How can we observe the garden beyond an ideal retreat space for the city, or as

a closed universe in itself?

• What other stories can be created and perceived from the multi-geographical

and multi-historical plant collection of the Botanical Garden Berlin-Dahlem?

• How is it possible to actively bring it into relation with the theme of the perishable

and finite nature of the contemporary world?

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RESEARCH QUESTIONS RESEARCH QUESTIONS

• Essayfilm – Concept of Christina Scherer (2001).
• References: Trinh T. Minh-ha, Agnès Varda, Chris Marker, Harun Farocki.
• Thinking through Images and with Images (montage).
• Fragmented narratives, non-linear stories.
• II. ESSAYFILM AS A HISTORIOGRAPHICAL MEDIUM

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SUBJECTS SUBJECTS

„Der Essay ist eine Möglichkeit zur Neuanordnung der Bereiche des Ästhetischen und Epistemologischen, welche die herrschende Arbeitsteilung zwischen Wissenschaft und Kunst unterläuft.“

• Theodor Adorno: Der Essay als Form.

Theodor Adorno: Der Essay als Form. In: In: Ders

• Ders. : Noten zur Literatur.

. : Noten zur Literatur. Hrsg.: Rolf Hrsg.: Rolf Teidemann

• Teidemann. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Mai 1988, (1958).

. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Mai 1988, (1958).

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Still from the video: „Victoria Amazonica“. Barbara Marcel, 2015/2016.

Empirical analysis.

• Investigation in Archives and in the Museum of the Botanical Garden.
• Walter Benjamin – Historical Materialism.
• Stories with postcolonial focus (Tropical flora of the garden).
• Connections to the current era of the Anthropocene.
• METHODOLOGY

METHODOLOGY

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Library of education and practical knowledge for military contender, Volume I, 1905. German publisher Bong & Co Berlin * Leipzig * Wien * Stuttgart.

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CURRENT BIBLIOGRAPHY CURRENT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Cultural history of the Botanical Garden Berlin and some of ist plants.

• Theories of historiography (de Certeau, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Foucault, Kosellek).
• Post- and decolonial theories (Chakravorty Spivak, Júlia Almeida, Walter Mignolo, Anibal

Quijano, Enrique Dussel).

• Theories of modernity / Anthropocene era (Donna Haraway, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro,

Bruno Latour, Suely Rolnik).

• Theories of space (Bachelard, Foucault, Pápay, Schivelbusch, Schroer ).
• Art and Politics: politics of images and the aesthetic regime of art with Jacques

Rancière.

THEORY

ARTISTIC RESEARCH

Victoria Amazonica, 22 min.

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FIRST WORKS FIRST WORKS

• FIRST WORKS

FIRST WORKS

ARTISTIC RESEARCH

“The Ever-Garden Effect”, 45 min. Omonoia Athens Biennale 2016.

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• THANK YOU
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