after eden - cemetery as garden - antiwar - song - circle of life - research based
While taking a course “After Eden: Art With and Against the Garden“ and thinking around the principle of organisation and aim and symbolical meaning of different gardens in Salzburg area, my way to school lead me through cemetery every morning. Can cemetery be considered garden? I bielive so. Its a garden of memories, of ivies and roses, place to remind ourselves of what truly metters and where we all will find ourselfs, no metter of status, gender or nationality. In times of War this gardens can grow significantly to be physical symbols of the cost people pay for greed of they leaders.
Installation was build from materials we reuse from castle drawers and consist of drawings on paper, drawings on textile, bouquets and sound. The style of drawings is connecting “feminine” art of embroidery and “masculine” art of etching. As War equals affects man and woman. The installation has variable size and contains - Pen drawings on paper, textile, animation, sound, possible performance element -collaboration with performance artist, where I will draw on skin) and bouquets.
The sound part of installation is the melody “Where Have All The Flowers Gone”, which were written by Pete Seeger in 1955.
Additional verses were added in May 1960 by Joe Hickerson, Marlene Dietrich performed the song in English, French, and German. The song was first performed in French (as “Qui peut dire où vont les fleurs?”) by Dietrich in 1962 at a UNICEF concert.
She later also recorded the song in English and in German.
The first time I hear this song in my life was during my childhood, it was a cover in russian language....
Given the anti war message of the song, I’ve collect covers in different languages ( song has been recorded and covered well over 200 times across multiple languages and music styles) to show that war as tragedy unite people of different nations.
installation, drawings, sound, textile drawings, Austria, 2026, front and back view
