Office of imaginary landscape
This project by Charlie Jeffery is part of the Blow-up exhibition at Jeu de Paume
Cali, Colombia, Lugar a dudas
The office of imaginary landscape has moved across the atlantic and I find myself in Cali staying at
http://www.lugaradudas.org/exhibiciones.htm, the name means ‘The place of doubts’, and kind of sounds like the lounge of dudes.
This is the viewpoint from the window
Patchouli from Taiwan
courtesy of Sharon Cheng, this plant which she tells me is patchouli or something, now to build
a map of the office plantations around the world
black rectangle, there must be something going on inside
screen shot, facebook officeof imaginarylandscape
on the outer edge
La ronceraie, made by Manuel Irles and Yann le Bail in Le Quartier in Quimper, soon to be streamed
Protocol
The office of imaginary landscape, 2011 Charlie Jeffery
Set aside a space in an office with a light source (sunlight is good/ a window)
Employ a surface or object, or combination of these
Cover or fill with earth Make humid
Find seeds or small plants (any species can be used, some may work better than others)
Embed them in the earth
Place a webcam in front of this arrangement in order to record what may happen
Water the plants and seeds as you see fit.
Continue this as long as you wish.
The video feed from the webcam will be linked to this webpage where it will be placed along side other feeds.
To quote Robert Barryʼs Art work 1970
« It is always changing.
It has order.
It doesnʼt have a specific place.
Its boundaries are not fixed.
It affects other things.
It is affected by other things.
It may be accessible but go unnoticed.
Part of it may also be part of something else.
Some of it is familiar, Some of it is strange.
Knowing of it changes it. »
slow bursts
So it looks like it is going to take forever for this not so much to get off the ground as get out the ground, or out of the furniture. However behind the scenes, or the scene, things are moving. I hope some time soon some of the plants that I have picked up on the streets will begin to grow or recover from being pulled out of the ground and shoved into a chair found also in the street. Some connections are beginning to be made and more gardens are close to being put on line.
