Meeting Gardens. Practicing the rural through art and care for sustainable and inclusive perspectives

curated by ife collective as part and with the support of the European Solidarity Corp
2023, Vicenza

Let's meet among juicy gardens and imperfect spaces where gentle voices await us to dance together rural choreographies of multispecies coexistence, becoming nourishment for relationships and decentralized practices.

Meeting Gardens. Practicing the rural through art and care for sustainable and inclusive perspectives is a hybrid and itinerant annual project that moves between gardens and orchards. Meeting Gardens aims to collectively imagine sustainable and inclusive alternatives for being and acting in and with the land through interaction with local rural experiences and realities in the Vicenza area. Meeting Gardens is a collective poetic-critical effort, a practical and theoretical research project to investigate the sought-after and possible connection between art and rurality. Meeting Gardens alternative program community, the first phase of the project, is brought to life through an open call and by conducting meetings and site visits within rural realities. It gains access to skills, abilities, and knowledge in contact with the land and the languages of art, developing proposals for activities and anti-nostalgic visions related to rurality. Meeting Gardens Festival. Meleagra is a three-day multidisciplinary event in September, designed to connect cultivation-culture practices between the orchards and gardens of the city and bring different communities closer to new ways of creating the world, through projections, workshops, presentations, and the collective exhibition Uraura. Ci sono ancora semi da raccogliere e spazio nella sacca delle stelle. The project concludes with a collective publication, created from reflections, pathways, and unpublished materials based on the themes of the project.

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Meeting Gardens festival. Meleagra

The exhibition Uraura. Ci sono ancora semi da raccogliere e spazio nella sacca delle stelle

Artists of Uraura. Ci sono ancora semi da raccogliere e spazio nella sacca delle stelle: Vittoria Assembri, Gabriele Biondi, Juri Bizzotto, Marina Cavadini, Giulia Deganello, Margherita Ferrari, Riccardo Fichera, Giulia Gaffo, Link Hg, Antonio Irre, Mirko Marcolin, Chiara Prodi, Tiziano Signorato, Marta Valpiana and I-Chen Zuffellato.

Guests of Meeting Gardens alternative program and Meeting Gardens Festival. Meleagra: Giovanna Repetto, Margherita Ferrari from Oddkin, Nicola Zengiaro, Carlo Concato, the creatures of I-Chen Zuffellato, Francesca Bertin, Claire Chassot, Colectivo Los Ingravidos, Ulisse Schiavo, Nina Baietta, Max_ine Simonetto (naturaviolenta), Ilaria Rilievo, Elena Benetti, DOM-, Chiara Spadaro, Martina Camani, Martina Pittarello and Lenizak.

Meeting Gardens network currently includes: 100 orti, Apicoltura La Girosa, Azienda Agricola Lisiera, Biblioteca La Vigna, Bosco di Cà Alte and Lanerossi, Bosco e Cascina Carpaneda/Comunità Vicentina per l'Agroecologia, Casa di Cultura Popolare, Caracol Olol Jackson, Ceramic Pavillion/Le Nove Hotel, Cooperativa Insieme, Corte Bertesina, Indomiti wines, I frutti di Marta, La Campagnola, Oddkin Flower Farm & Studio, Pan Ti Voglio, Porto Burci, veloCittà, Villa Angaran San Giuseppe.

Photos by Marta Braggio
Graphics by Supernulla Studio