A project that explores ideas of preservation and transformation by reconsidering fragments of the past, forgotten rituals and processes of making. During a one month residency at the monastery garden at the Karmelitinnen-Kloster in Gmunden, this has taken the form of experiments with natural dying and recipe writing that invite multi-sensory understandings of the natural world and the history of the garden. What happens when we embrace organic processes of fading, decay and corrosion, redevelop botanical literacy, or acknowledge that our health is entangled with that of the planet?
Catherine Flood and May Rosenthal Sloan are two British curators and creative practitioners, based in France and Scotland respectively. In 2019 they curated the exhibition ‘Food: Bigger than the plate’ at the V&A in London. Their combined research interests focus on the interconnections of art and design with everyday life and the natural world through themes of food, farming, soil and natural fibres.
Salt Lake Cities
Regional empty spaces as places of experience and meeting points for art: the Capital of Culture 2024 invites young artists from Germany and abroad to research, live and work in these spaces and to activate them with artistic contributions.
More about the project at salzkammergut-2024.at
