August 5, 2012, 12:00 Kassel, DE<\/p>\n
As part of Critical Art Ensemble’s<\/a> (CAE) project at Documenta 13, Winning Hearts and Minds<\/a>, I discussed the Hortus Malabaricus<\/em> in anno 2012. This 17th century\u00c2\u00a012-volume\u00c2\u00a0work magnificently illustrates around 740 indigenous plants from the Malabar coast in India and explains their medicinal\u00c2\u00a0properties, with captions in 4 different languages. The performance\/lecture took place at a house at the far end of the Hauptbahnhof, close to the railway tracks, as part of CAE’s daily lecture series at 12:00. Keeping in spirit of Documenta13, with its manifold presentations of plants and ‘life’ organisms, I spoke out about the preservation of traditional knowledge and its contemporary usage in preventative medicine. I also presented my exhibitions The Unwanted Land<\/em> at Museum Beelden aan Zee in 2010-2011 and The Wanted Land<\/em> from 2012 in David Hall, Fort Cochin, India. These exhibitions are comprised of video installations and indigenous plants that bring the content of the Hortus Malabaricus<\/em> into the contemporary. I also introduced the online pl As part of Critical Art Ensemble’s (CAE) project at Documenta 13, Winning Hearts and Minds, I discussed the Hortus Malabaricus in anno 2012. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[7,36,33,34,35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reneeridgway.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reneeridgway.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reneeridgway.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reneeridgway.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reneeridgway.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/reneeridgway.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"https:\/\/reneeridgway.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reneeridgway.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reneeridgway.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reneeridgway.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reneeridgway.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/reneeridgway.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Vandana10.jpg\" "\\"Vandana10\\"")
atform hortusmalabaricus.net<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0that is not only focused on the\u00c2\u00a0Hortus Malabaricus<\/em> but on its artistic, botanical, medical and political importance in 2012. Lastly I screened my interview with Vandana Shiva, in which she discusses the potency of traditional knowledge, such as the register Hortus Malabaricus<\/em>. Shiva, a physicist, environmental activist, and eco feminist, based in Delhi, concurs with its usage as a ‘prior art’ in combating the bio-patent industry and furthermore spells out her own research: The importance of preventing the monopolization of seeds is articulated in her Documenta publication, The Corporate Control of Life<\/a><\/em>, No. 012 in 100 Notes-100 Thoughts.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/reneeridgway.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/ViewofKassel.jpg\" "\\"ViewofKassel\\"")
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