EVE GANNEAU
INTERSTICES - Gardens becoming
Participatory and choreographic card game for community gardens
Concept and invitation : Eve Ganneau
Design of the cards : in collaboration with visual artist Eve Garemi
In collaboration with artists Andrès Garcia Martinez,
Marine Giraudet and Raphaël Caillens
In collaboration with participants in Jardins de Beaudésert,
Jardins de la Frat'Belle de Mai, Jardins du 3bisF,
Duncan Dance Research Center gardens,
and the dancers of Orjan Andersson Dance
A multi-disciplinary team of artists and participants gardeners in four different community urban gardens.
This artistic research took the form of a deck of cards. The cards were developed during periods of immersive research in conversation with garden sites and participants. This research addresses the underlying themes of social and environmental ecology.
The pack of cards unfolded into different games played in community garden spaces. It is a playful call for sharing time, vernacular knowledge, stories and choreographic tools. These cards mobilize participants' senses, bodies and imagination.
A giant collective map was fabricated in each of these gardens, recording the experience of the participants.
To read more about the cards and the project
INTERSTICES was developed as part of the FAI-AR Creation in Public Space advanced training course. The research, conducted as a living laboratory, was shared with local residents and gardeners.
This immersion/conversation enabled us to reflect on these spaces and their usage, and to create and experiment with this artistic object in the form of workshops. We've developed a range of unique mediation tools that we can adapt to different contexts, always in touch with reality and living environments, in discussion with the partner organisations.
