Bart Vandeput (Bartaku)
Baroa belaobara: berryapple
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This monograph speaks
about an art practice that addresses a plant while following signals from a
plantation in Latvia. Through five passages the reader is becoming part of a growing-in-making mixing of bacteria, breath, bone china, ether, soil, linen, light, anthocyanins, brain reader, electricity, pH, plant(ation), presence, and mulberry paper.
An enquiry into the
renaming of the plantation plant into Baroa belaobara crystalizes
into a taxonomic breath-wording protocol. Experiments in creating a new shape
for the dominant botanical name touch upon photobiological,
gene-editing and hidden plantation protocols. Plant colorants as
light-to-electric agency in a glass solar panel painting entangle with JMW Turner´s Snow
Storm. Performative happening protocols reveal hidden designs of a brain reader
that transform into ceramic sculptures. They describe as well ways to create
gifts for a crocodilian wheat grain and a prime minister of a country turned
into a plantation.
In BerryBabe detailed descriptions of experimentations,
interventions, collaborative making-thinking processes sliding through art,
science, craft and philosophy, provide an insight in how plant signals – when
taken seriously – play into poetic commenting on the big, the small and the in
between.