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All video works were created in close collaboration with Vancouver-based 
​​inter-disciplinary artist Andreas Kahre and Derek Tan.

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 Plants for Rosa - Pflanzen fuer Rosa - 2019

a walk through the exhibition

Gestern, Hier, Morgen - 2019
(with special musical contribution by voice artist Catherine Fern Lewis, singing
composer Hugo Wolf's song  "Auch kleine Dinge können uns entzücken" 
and pianist Alison Nishihara, interpreting Hugo Wolf's score and Alexina Louie's composition "Changes")


Proverbial Botany - 2016
(with special collaborative contributions from 20 adult second language learners,
who agreed to share their knowledge and memory of plant-related idioms,
spoken in both their first language and English)

​​Video Work: gestern, hier, morgen (yesterday, here, tomorrow) - 2019
 

The following video creation "gestern, hier, morgen", in collaboration with Vancouver-based inter-disciplinary artist Andreas Kahre and digital media specialist Derek Tan, is a tribute to the multi-faceted human being Rosa Luxemburg was as a human rights activist, peace activist and even botanist. 

Derek Tan: editor of video files I documented during walks on forest trails and a boat ride on the Landwehr Canal in Berlin, where Rosa Luxemburg found her tragic death, through assassination, on the 15th of January 1919. In synchronicity with Andreas Kahre's soundtrack, Derek also created the design of fonts in the video's script.

Andreas Kahre: compositions of layered sounds from various sources, including recorded spoken voices commenting on Rosa Luxemburg's political activism, which contrast her interest in botany and zoology. Readings from Rosa's letters, as well as poetic and musical contributions were also recorded for this project.

Importance was given to remember and celebrate lesser known aspects of Rosa Luxemburg. As her letters written from prison cells reveal, Rosa was profoundly touched by even the tiniest encounters with nature. I therefor wish for the voices of nature, she may have heard and found comfort in, to still resonate in concordia, "with (one) heart", with that of speaking and listening humans today. 
 
My gratitude goes to all contributors, including the ones I have not named here.
 
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Rosa Luxemburg - gestern, hier, morgen...
Video work: Proverbial Botany – 2016

"Proverbial Botany" is a further collaboration with Andreas Kahre and Derek Tan. With it, I attempt to integrate my experience as an ESL teacher at MOSAIC and to create opportunity for outreach into Vancouver's community of "new Canadians"; providing, at the same time, a space of 'inclusion'  for adult ESL students to participate in contemporary art-culture. It offered ESL learners a different kind of meaningful local language-based learning  experience.

My heartfelt thanks and appreciation still goes to the 20 ESL students from diverse cultural backgrounds, who agreed to participate in having their "proverbial botany" knowledge recorded for this project. 
 

Proverbial Botany
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  • recent exhibitions: 2020 and 2019
    • Exhibition 2019 >
      • Articles
  • Botany Scrolls
  • Woodcut-Intaglio Grasses Series
  • Scripted Works
  • earlier works
  • Video and Media Works
  • my fellow artist collaborators
    • publications
  • Home
  • my journey into botanical literacy
  • about
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Contact