MULCH; System Garden Picnic.
Kelp D performance with Benjamin Hancock.
Featuring flowers from the System Garden and edible plants from the artists home garden, Lichen Kelp created an electronic ikebana performance, giving musical agency to plants to respond to Dylan Martorell’s soundtrack of synthesisers, sequencers and samplers. Dancer Benjamin Hancock and the audience were provided with plant vision monocles - providing a photosynthetic, multicellular moire view of the performance.
MULCH also featured Kirlian plant aura photographs and molecular perfumes based on exotic plants found in the System Garden by David Haines, as well as a poetry and Lemon Myrtle tea ceremony by Honeyfingers (urban beekeeper Nic Dowse) in the gardens tower, a durational palm planting performance by Loren Kronemyer (Pony Express) and musical performances by Lisa Lerkenfeldt and Tim Coster.
The garden curator Tim Uebergang led a tour of the System Garden and Jean Pierre Scheerlink gave a talk about the bees and hives that he tends on the university grounds.
MULCH was presented as part of Ian Potters Inside Out series and curated by Lichen Kelp.
More information here;
https://www.forumofsensorymotion.com/mulch-performance-picnic
image by Inez Martorell.
Image by Inez Martorell.
Image by Gregory Lorenzutti, courtesy Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne.
Image by Inez Martorell.
MULCH: Performance Picnic in the System Garden
Curated by Lichen Kelp (Forum of Sensory Motion) for Ian Potter Museums Inside Out Program.
Featuring artists:
Kelp D and Benjamin Hancock
Honeyfingers (Nic Dowse)
Loren Kronemyer
Lisa Lerkenfeldt
David Haines
Tim Coster
Following images are of Kelp D and Benjamin Hancock performance.
More information and documentation from the rest of the MULCH program here
image by Inez Martorell.
Remaining images all by Gregory Lorenzutti, courtesy Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne.
Frozen electronic beetroot instrument by Lichen Kelp.