The Precarious Greenhouse: Plunder and place-less-ness (part of doing together 24)

The Precarious Greenhouse - Plunder and place-less-ness

Workshop with Claire Loder and John Taylor as part of doing together 24

Thursday 4 April 2024

Exploring ideas of separability, control, microcosms and colonialism, this session is focused on the construction of a precarious glasshouse as a device for framing conversations around our (dis)entanglements with plants, the seasons and the soil.   

The session focused on some practical and artful methods of working with treelings and seedlings, and focused on a building exercise to construct an ad hoc greenhouse and 'glaze’ the structure with images that will be printed/created during the session. Once the greenhouse was constructed, participants to met the plants.  

doing together 24
doing together is a yearly two-day making and sharing practice symposium at Locksbrook Campus, hosted by the Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries in collaboration with Bath School of Art, Film and Media and Bath School of Music and Performing Arts.

Workshops, delivered by staff and postgraduate students from across the University, share practice-based research methods and a broad range of approaches to practice. doing together is proposed as a generous space to make/do/share and discuss practice with colleagues from a range of different Schools.

Throughout the symposium, facilitators – alongside participants – test out ways of doing together in an effort to make their practice-based research explicit, rather than simply describe it.