Herbarium

Project Herbarium consists of performative walks, to which we invite people who relate to the questions of precarious work in their practice or as workers. We talk about specific themes within this field, like gender bias in regards to precarity, lack of free time, body strain in flexible working conditions... While walking and talking we pick plants to be used as documentation of event. The conversations are not recorded, but are afterwords put into short indexical textual forms within the prescribed space on the herbarium sheets where normally one would find botanical information. One image of the location of the walk is taken without protagonists in them. The project Herbarium is a sort of re-enactment of the walks described by Jean Jacques Rousseau in his book, Reveries of a Solitary Walker, a sort of praise to the slow pace, loneliness and leisure.

Details

technical info: performative walks documented as plant herbarium & slide projection of location + photographs of sections from a book / dimensions variable / 2014-ongoing
exhibition view: Pipe Dream, Kunsthalle Exnergasse (opens in a new tab), Vienna
A Taste for Work (opens in a new tab), Ljubljana
Photo Credits: Fokus Grupa, Wolfgang Thaler, Boris Beja