Intelligente Allmende

The garden house, the so-called Orangerie, is a walk-in installation from June 30 to August 13 and part of the project Intelligente Allmende. For the installation, the artists Sebastian Altermatt, Fabian Raith, Leoni Voegelin and Franziska Winkler have combined various thematic areas and are exploring connections between humans, nature and technology, between objects made of ceramics, sensor technology, machines, poetry by Droste-Hülshoff and new poetry.

Outside, video screens show poetry by hearing and deaf artists. Based on the poem Im Moose by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Rafael-Evitan Grombelka, Anna Hetzer, Tim Holland and Kassandra Wedel have created new poems and translated them into text and sign language poetry. The poems tell of encounters between nature and technology. The poetries are juxtaposed with images of plants. They are the result of an image-generating machine learning algorithm. Based on images of nature from Droste-Hülshoff's library, plants of the future are generated and the fusion of nature and technology is made clear.

The interior of the Orangerie houses an artificial garden and becomes a walk-in neural network. The plant-like objects made of silicone and ceramic react to movement with sensors. When you enter the little house, you change the rhythm of the installation. Water starts to bubble, the house begins to breathe and the tempo of the machine-generated plants changes on the video screens.

What does the garden of the future look like? How can intelligence be understood as a property of a connection between humans, nature and technology? What knowledge emerges in these processes of connecting? How is it stored and distributed?

Artistic Direction
Fabian Raith, Franziska Winkler, Leoni Voegelin

Artistic Garden
Friends of Random Objects
(Leoni Voegelin & Sebastian Altermatt)

Support Structure Installation
constructlab (Jan Stricker)

Curation Poetry
Handpicked (Franziska Winkler)

Lyricists Poetry
Kassandra Wedel, Anna Hetzer, Rafael Grombelka, Tim Holland

Poetry films
Urs Mader

Creative Coding AI
Fabian Raith and Zeno Gries

Graphics
Kruse & Müller