KinderGarden
Meaning kinship garden, KinderGarden embodies its essence as a medium where humans learn from ecological elders and reflect on caring ways in collaboration with non-human entities. It looks at a garden as a place of experimentation and a meaning-making ritual that not only constructs our connections with nature but also prompts a heightened awareness of one's surroundings and geographically dispersed communities.
Collectively, KinderGardeners transformed the gallery space into a symbiotic complex, crafting multimedia installations that integrated living matter such as lichen, moss, and mycelium. These parallel gardens continually evolved, responding to the gentle motions of light and wind, as well as human labor expressed through impromptu dance movements. Exhibited internally and publicly with support from NYU Tisch Initiative for Creative Research, KinderGarden challenged audiences to reframe their relationship with natural ecosystems, probing the tension between humanity's growing independence from nature and nature's dependence on interconnectedness.
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