Celebrating the opening of the event series, PLANT STORIES starts with a communal dinner gathering conceived by Bethan Hughes, with contributions by Anguezomo Nzé Mba Bikoro, Bethan Hughes, Bilge Emine Arslan, Ece Eldek, Fetewei Tarekegn, Galo E. Rivera, Tang Han, Leslie García, Sina Ribak, T. Rudzinskaitė Memorial Amateur Lichenologists Society (Sumugan Sivanesan and Tessa Zettel), Tlayolan, Umut Azad Akkel.
Around a Tree continues in Guainía, Colombia, with Around the Flor of Inírida, celebrating the region’s unique flora as a legacy of COP16. The Flor of Inírida was the official logo of the COP16 in Cali, representing the message of ‘Peace with Nature’. While this plant endemic to Guainía shows flowers that never die, this metaphor of eternal life should leave aside the threat of extinction. Biodiversity loss and climate change happen right here in Guainía, Colombia, far from the places where Conferences of Parties take place. Become part of this story by watching this video.
Even more a reason from “Around a Tree” led by Más Arte Más Acción (MAMA) to co-create this event with botanical expert Mateo Fernandez. along with partners atbc.
Rapateacea, maroa flowers, southern starlets or flowers of Inírida – who are they?
This collaboration between science and art asks:
With: Mateo Fernandez, botanist and expert on the Inírida flower from the University of Oldenburg, Germany; Rubén Dario Carianil-LIWI; Más Arte Más Acción; Miguel Navas; Andrés Vélez; Magally Ortiz-MCG, James Richardson, Sina Ribak, Mateo Suarez, Juan Posada, Universidad del Rosario.
23th of January 2025 / 18:00
DEPARTMENTAL PUBLIC LIBRARY OF INÍRIDA, COMMUNITY MUSEUM of GUAINIA, Colombia
Almost in every symbiosis plants and their positive relationships are involved. Plants form the structure of ecosystems and ultimately provide food for all other members of the community
Andreas Gigon
Más Arte Más Acción (MAMA) presents an artistic public intervention in the Edinburgh Art Festival in partnership with Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Together with the Colombian cultural foundation MAMA I will host encounters between visitors, artists and scientists co-creating a space to experience and discuss interconnections between humans and plants in times of rapid biodiversity loss.
Did you hear the tuber murmuring? Gathering in the kitchen we get a feeling of textures, smells, processes and relations involving potatoes, perennial herbs and other beings. While peeling potatoes, we work on our alchemic notebook and imagine conversations among tubers, rosemary, insects, herbalists, artists…
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