Jared Gradinger und Angela Schubot: “The Opposite of a Shadowland”

Radically physical, while at the same time exploring delicate situations of intense intimacy, the works of Jared Gradinger and Angela Schubot examine the question: how can we co-exist? Gradinger and Schubot extend this question to include non-human agents and invite other creatures to contribute to their work as co-devisers, collaborators and partners – in an effort to find new and ever more vital forms of cohabitation. As part of the ritual “The Opposite of a Shadowland”, they will create a self-sustaining garden that celebrates the arrival of the seasons: a renaturing project that invites the institution to abandon its customary mode of property maintenance in order to establish a more conscious relationship with soil and nature in public spaces. With this garden, Gradinger and Schubot are extending their work on decentralising the human in performative and regenerative situations: it is intended to be a wild field requiring little to no maintenance and offering an undisturbed site in an urban location for native seasonal flowers. How can we initiate things lovingly and deliberately without wanting to own them and simply allowing them to be themselves?