'SAVAGE LAVA JUNGLES' PLB'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE SERPENTINE GALLERY GARDEN MARATHON CURATED BY HUO

Pablo Leon de la Barra presenting Savage Lava Jungles at the Serpentine Gallery's Garden Marathon


Garden Route 1, from Barragan to Xiltila, to Leonora Carrington, to Concrete Jungle, to Pellicer in Tabasco


Garden Route 2, from Barragan to Niemeyer, to Ibirapuera, to Sanaa, to Burle Marx, to Lina Bo-Bardi


Garden Route 3, from Pellicer, to Dr. Atl, to Barragan in el Pedregal, to Goeritz and Escobedo at Espacio Escultorico


Dominique Gonzalez Foerster's Plan for Escape Park at Documenta XI in 2002


Dominique Gonzalez Foerster's Concrete Desert Park in the Tropics in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 2010


PLB, Ballard Park for DGF


Tate Modern under lava, inspired by Dr Atl's volcano paintings of lava covering the village of Paricutin


Gugenheim NY under lava


Lina Bo Bardi's partially covered Casa de Vidrio


Lava Museu, Partially Buried Courtyards


Lava Museum Grotto Gardens Cave Cube


the geodesic tent where the Marathon took place


Julia Peyton Jones presenting the Garden Marathon


Hans Ulrich Obrist presenting the Garden Marathon (photo by Federico Martelli, courtesy Serpentine Gallery)

Garden Marathon by night


tropical plants inside geodesia


shadows of the tropics


Geodesic pavilion at night with Hans Peter Feldman Christmas tree

Press Release:
Serpentine Gallery Garden Marathon
Saturday 15 October 12 noon -- 10 pm Sunday 16 October 11 am -- 9 pm

The Serpentine Gallery Garden Marathon is the sixth in the Gallery’s renowned Marathon series, an ambitious two-day event that takes place in London during Frieze Art Fair week. A live programme of continuous presentations by artists, writers, philosophers, scholars, musicians, architects, designers and scientists will take place in a specially constructed dome outside the Serpentine. The event is directly inspired by the acclaimed Serpentine Gallery Pavilion designed by Peter Zumthor with Piet Oudolf’s garden at its centre.

Marathon participants:
Etel Adnan, Brian Aldiss, Maria Thereza Alves, Rosie Atkins, Yto Barrada and Sean Gullette, Gianfranco Baruchello, Gerry Bibby, Stefano Boeri, John Brockman, Pablo Bronstein, Lizzie Carey-Thomas, Hélène Cixous, Emer Coleman, Pascal Cribier, Adam Curtis, David Deutsch, Elizabeth Diller, Jimmie Durham, Marcus du Sautoy, Brian Eno, Patrick Eyres, Hans-Peter Feldmann, FIELDCLUB, Sophie Fiennes, Adriaan Geuze, Jef Geys, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, Fritz Haeg with Denise Withers, Zarina Hashmi, Will Holder, Jennifer Jacquet, Charles Jencks, Koo Jeong-A, Alison Knowles and Meghan DellaCrosse, Pablo León de la Barra, Jonas Mekas and David Ellis, Catherine Mosbach, muf architecture/art, Christian Philipp Müller, Peter Murray-Rust, Silke Otto-Knapp, Mark Pagel, Philippe Parreno, Giuseppe Penone, Julia Peyton-Jones, Alice Rawsthorn, Carissa Rodriguez and Avena Gallagher, David Rowan, Peter Saville and Anna Blessmann, Rüdiger Schöttle, Richard Sennett, Bas Smets, Paul Smith, Something & Son, Susan Stenger, Corin Sworn, Wolfgang Tillmans, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Günther Vogt, Sophie von Cundale, Alex Waterman, Cerith Wyn Evans, Andrea Zanzotto and Qiu Zhijie.

As well as: The observer’s guide to the Serpentine Gallery Garden Marathon -- compiled in one voice, in the field, by a pool: Paul Becker, Ian Evans, Will Holder, John D. Millar, Francesco Pedraglio, Heather Phillipson, Natasha Soobramienen, Cally Spooner, Nick Thurston and Luke Williams.

Contributions from key figures from multiple disciplines will include explorations of the spatial, urban and scientific importance of gardens to the significance of the garden in our experience of the world as well as cutting- edge research in biodiversity, conservation and genetics. Gardens have been a source of inspiration for artists, writers and poets such as Ian Hamilton Finlay whose permanent installation can be seen in the Gallery’s grounds.

Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects; Sally Tallant, Head of Programmes; Nicola Lees, Public Programmes Curator and Lucia Pietroiusti, Assistant Curator, Serpentine Gallery.

Serpentine Gallery Marathons are a unique series of events that bring together the fields of art, culture, science and technology. Previous Marathons have included last year’s Map Marathon 2010, following on from the Poetry Marathon 2009, Manifesto Marathon 2008, Experiment Marathon 2007 and the Interview Marathon 2006.

Marathon Programme:

SATURDAY 15 OCTOBER 12pm – 5pm
Julia Peyton-Jones Hans Ulrich Obrist
Introductions

Wolfgang Tillmans
Ursuppe and Other Garden Pictures

Rosie Atkins
A History of Garden Design in 20 Minutes

Jef Geys
Quadra Medicinale: Weeds and Biodiversity

Gianfranco Baruchello
The Coefficient – The Garden as a Joint Agent

Hélène Cixous
Un vrai jardin – A Real Garden

Etel Adnan
The Spring Flowers Own

Patrick Eyres
Ian Hamilton Finlay and Little Sparta 

Cerith Wyn Evans
Reading: Poems by Ian Hamilton Finlay

Alice Rawsthorn
Interviews Adriaan Geuze, Something & Son and FIELDCLUB

Adriaan Geuze Something & Son
Born in a Shed

FIELDCLUB
Some Aspects of Neo-Agrosophy

Dan Graham
Museum as Garden/Garden as Museum

5pm – 10pm
Brian Aldiss
Interviewed by Hans Ulrich Obrist 

Rodney Graham
Lobbing Potatoes at a Gong 

Günther Vogt
Reality as Model as Reality

Rüdiger Schöttle
Theatergarden Bestiarium

Alison Knowles and Meghan DellaCrosse
Loose Pages

Pascal Cribier
Garden, Nature or Landscape?

Zarina Hashmi
Invisible Gardens

Elizabeth Diller
Agri-tecture

Fritz Haeg & DeniseWithers
How a Garden can Change Your Life

Christian Philipp Müller
The New World

Muf architecture/art
The Rehearsal

Peter Saville & Anna Blessmann
TV Blumen

Gerry Bibby
No Picnic (A Promenade of the Hearts), performed with Sophie Corin Sworn
Out of Range

Rodney Graham
Lobbing Potatoes at a Gong

Susan Stenger
Ryoanji, by John Cage

SUNDAY 16 OCTOBER
11am – 5pm
Marcus du Sautoy
Exploring the Mathematical Garden

John Brockman
In Conversation with:

Brian Eno

Jennifer Jacquet

Shame Totem v.2.0 

Mark Pagel, 

Cities as Gardens 

Jimmie Durham
Berlin, April 2000

Paul Smith
Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank: Supporting Innovation and Adaptation in Horticulture in a Changing World

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster & Pablo León De La Barra
SAVAGE LAVA JUNGLES

David Rowan, Emer Coleman & Peter Murray-Rust
Walled Gardens vs. Open Spaces: The Tension at the Heart of the Internet

Stefano Boeri
A Planetary Kitchen Garden

Richard Sennett
Open and Closed:How Gardens Serve as Places for Reflection

Catherine Mosbach
Phase Shift Park

Giuseppe Penone
The Garden Begins when a Man Tramples the Soil

Silke Otto-Knapp
“Recollections of a Happy Life, being the Autobiography of Marianne North”, a reading

Charles Jencks
The Universe in the Landscape 

Pablo Bronstein
In Conversation with Lizzie Carey-Thomas

5pm – 8.30pm
Sophie von Cundale
The Garden of Endemol

Jonas Mekas and David Ellis
Orvydas Garden

Adam Curtis
I Am not a Garden. I Am a Machine

Carissa Rodriguez & Avena Gallagher
Wowowee

Philippe Parreno & Bas Smets
CHZ

Mierle Laderman Ukeles
Transfer and Exchange: Proposal for 1 Million Participants to Participate in an Artwork for Freshkills Park, NYC: Public Offerings Made by All Redeemed by All

Yto Barrada
Sean Gullette Reads from Yto Barrada’s “A Guide to Trees for Governors and Gardeners”, with a Slideshow

Sophie Fiennes
3a The Little House

Alex Waterman
Beacons of Ancestorship

With additional contributions by
Maria Thereza Alves
...sur l’herbe (homage à Domenico & Vincenzo Mancini)
David Deutsch
Why Are Flowers Beautiful?
Hans-Peter Feldmann
ChristmasTree
Will Holder
Pool (see back page)
Koo Jeong-A
Undisturbed Pools
Andrea Zanzotto
Reading by Hans Ulrich Obrist
Qiu Zhijie

http://www.serpentinegallery.org

PETER ZUMTHOR'S BLACK PAVILION (IN A PARK) WITH A GARDEN INSIDE, AT THE SERPENTINE GALLERY, LONDON

Serpentine Pavilion, another lovely English summer day...





photo opportunities...









dark corridors before reaching the garden...





english garden wanting to be japanese zen garden inside...







the peacefulness of being surrounded by others...





human flowers...









the forking paths...





finally the Sun comes out!





Maria Berrios, Aleksandra Mir, Ana Maria Millan and Andres Sandoval (and Philippe Parreno by coincidence coming out of the pavilion)





wall texture...





and garden pavilion plan.





Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011

Designed by Peter Zumthor

gardening by Piet Oudolf

1 July – 16 October 2011

http://www.serpentinegallery.org



Hortus conclusus

by Peter Zumthor

Haldenstein, May 2011



We come from nature and we return to nature; we are conceived and born; we live and die; we rot or burn and vanish into the earth. I rarely thought about such things when I was young. Now I do. I see a great cycle and I am part of it. For a little while, I am here. I did not exist before my time and I will no longer exist after my time. But in my time, I belong to the process of life on this planet; for a little while I am part of the organism of human beings, animals and plants that exists on this planet and that passes life on.



Looking back I realise that I have always taken plants for granted; they were part of my surroundings; they were self-evident and I enjoyed them as meadows, gardens or woods. That has changed. I have become more attentive to the plant world even though I never studied it and know only a few plants by name. But I like being with them. To me, their presence is quieting.



Plants embody everything that I like to have around me: presence, personality, character. They are supple and therefore strong, yet softly-spoken and gentle; they are fragrant and delicate; they have movement, colour, structure, scale and proportion. Plants are large in form, tiny in detail and always a single whole. Plants are beautiful in sun and rain, in tropical heat, fighting immortal cold, dancing in the wind, buffeted by storms.



Plants have long been part of the earth’s history. They come from afar. Their beauty is deep and beyond question. It can be overwhelming; their fragrance beguiling. I look at my garden and I see vibrancy, opulence, serenity; I see dignity, playfulness, infinite tenderness, the nodding kindness of Herb Roberti, and in the larger, beautiful picture, I discover small, modest dots of colour that enhance the luxuriant whole.



Landscapes mark the surface of the earth. Billions of plants react to sun, wind and weather, to heat and humidity, to drought and cold, to the nature of the soil in which they grow; they ceaselessly converge to form new plant societies and landscape ensembles. They are infinite in number and variety; they grow naturally and are influenced by us: oases, steppes, forests, wetlands, meadows, moors, landscaped parks. And there are gardens: herb gardens, kitchen gardens, vegetable gardens, flower gardens, rose gardens, pleasure gardens. Every name listed here evokes a distinct image; with each of them I associate specific lighting, smells and sounds, many kinds of rest, and a deep awareness of the earth and its flora.



A garden is the most intimate landscape ensemble I know of. It is close to us. In it we cultivate the plants we need. A garden requires care and protection. And so we encircle it, we defend it and fend for it. We give it shelter. The garden turns into a place.



Enclosed gardens fascinate me. A forerunner of this fascination is my love of the fenced vegetable gardens on farms in the Alps, where farmers’ wives often planted flowers as well. I love the image of these small rectangles cut out of vast alpine meadows, the fence keeping the animals out. There is something else that strikes me in this image of a garden fenced off within the larger landscape around it: something small has found sanctuary within something big.



The hortus conclusus that I dream of is enclosed all around and open to the sky. Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens that I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the façades of buildings – sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time.



The centre of my pavilion is a garden; it invites us to gather around. We will meet in the garden. I am looking forward to the natural energy and beauty of the tableau vivant of grasses, flowers and shrubs that Piet Oudolf has created and will plant for our hortus conclusus. I am looking forward to the colours and shapes, the smell of the soil, the movement of the leaves, the scent of the Bugbane and Joe Pye Weed. Piet tells me that butterflies and bees love their smell.

WOLFGANG TILLMANS AT SERPENTINE GALLERY

Liliana, Benny, Katherine, Ellen


Cecilia


Emilia


Cameron


Jorge and Phillipa


David, Pablo, Jemima, Danny (far right)


Victoria, David, Jemima, Wolfgang





afterwards at the dinner at the Tab centre...


Julia and HUO


Wolfgang and Anders and Wolfgang's parents.

Unfortunately the 'very friendly' security staff at Serpentine very firmly prohibited me of doing any installation photographs at Wolfgang's exhibition at Serpentine, his first institutional show in London since his show at Tate in 2003...

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