\u201cPlants have so much to give us, all we have to do is ask\u201d \u2014Mary Siisip Geniusz<\/p>\n
Yours, mine, ours: Community Garden explores possibilities for growth, nourishment, collective power, and connection to the interdependent lineages of land stewardship, foraging, and care of plant allies across the globe, from Turtle Island to Palestine.<\/p>\n
The garden encourages relationships between plants indigenous to this continent, European-introduced \u201csettler\u201d plants, and more recently arrived \u201cinvasive\u201d species, many of which originated in Asia. This social sculpture centers on the cultivation of a cross-cultural (un)learning garden made of medicinal plants, interwoven with a series of facilitated walks, conversations, and rituals. These activations invite neighbors to engage with the land by learning from and making medicine with prolific non-native plants such as mugwort and multiflora rose. Programs take place around culturally and ecologically significant days\u2014including the summer solstice and vernal equinox\u2014and are created in collaboration with community knowledge keepers, with an emphasis on herbal medicine from the Asian diasporas that these plants call home. With this project, Chou Tsun An asks, \u201cwhat are the ways we already know how to feed ourselves and free ourselves and each other?\u201d
\nRelated Events
\n https:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/programevent\/apothecary-fridays\/” Apothecary Fridays
\nwith Kimberly Chou Tsun An
\n October 11, 18, 25, 2024 | 3-5pm<\/p>\n
Herbal medicine was made in community, with facilitation from Artist Fellow https:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/artist\/kimberly-chou-tsun-an\/” Kimberly Chou Tsun An. Learning from plants integrated in her work https:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/artwork\/yours-mine-ours-community-garden\/” Yours, Mine, Ours: Community Garden \u2014 and throughout the park \u2014 participants shared collective plant knowledge and folk traditions while preserving the year\u2019s harvest as simple, soothing, and energizing tea blends for future community care.
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\nKimberly Chou Tsun An discusses her work\u00a0 Yours, mine, ours: Community Garden in https:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/exhibition\/the-socrates-annual-2024\/” The Socrates Annual 2024.<\/p>\n