Barbara Marcel Paper

COLLECTING, SHOWING AND
!STAGING PLANTS! !
A FILMIC ANALYSIS OF THE BOTANICAL GARDEN BERLIN-DAHLEM:
!HISTORIES AND PROJECTIONS IN CONTEMPORANEITY !
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!BARBARA MARCEL "
Supervisors: "
Prof. Prof. Dr. phil Michael Lüthy - Bauhaus-Universität Weimar"
Prof. Dr. Livia Flores – Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ-EBA"
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Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Ph.D. of Fine – Artistic Research (2nd semester)"
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ABSTRACT"
Historiography as a contemporary art practice."
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The Botanical Garden Berlin-Dahlem as an image. "
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Essayfilm and multi-perspective video installation. "
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SUBJECTS
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I. A CULTURAL HISTORY OF GARDENS"
The Garden - since ancient times, it has been perceived as a place of refuge from
the everyday chaos of the City, an ideal scenario for the culture of free thinking, a
space of isolated and controlled Nature. "
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First Botanical Gardens - From the 16th century onwards, space for empirical
observation and scientific research. "
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Michel Foucault Heterotopic Spaces. Typical modern spaces: library, museum,
botanical gardens. "
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The Botanical Garden Berlin-Dahlem - Built between 1897-1910 by Adolf Engler
as a Research Centre of a Colonial Flora.!
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Landscape project of Adolf Engler for the new Botanical Garden in Berlin-Dahlem, 1904th."
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RESEARCH QUESTIONS
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How can we observe the garden beyond an ideal retreat space for the city, or as
a closed universe in itself?"
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What other stories can be created and perceived from the multi-geographical
and multi-historical plant collection of the Botanical Garden Berlin-Dahlem?"
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How is it possible to actively bring it into relation with the theme of the perishable
and finite nature of the contemporary world? "
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SUBJECTS
II. ESSAYFILM AS A HISTORIOGRAPHICAL MEDIUM"
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Essayfilm – Concept of Christina Scherer (2001)."
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References: Trinh T. Minh-ha, Agnès Varda, Chris Marker, Harun Farocki."
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Thinking through Images and with Images (montage)."
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Fragmented narratives, non-linear stories."
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„Der Essay ist eine Möglichkeit zur Neuanordnung der
Bereiche des Ästhetischen und Epistemologischen,
welche die herrschende Arbeitsteilung zwischen
Wissenschaft und Kunst unterläuft.“ !
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Theodor Adorno: Der Essay als Form."
In: Ders. : Noten zur Literatur. "
Hrsg.: Rolf Teidemann. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Mai 1988, (1958)."
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Still from the video: „Victoria Amazonica“. Barbara Marcel, 2015/2016."
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METHODOLOGY"
Empirical analysis. "
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Investigation in Archives and in the Museum of the Botanical Garden."
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Walter Benjamin – Historical Materialism.!
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Stories with postcolonial focus (Tropical flora of the garden)."
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Connections to the current era of the Anthropocene."
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Library of education and practical knowledge for military contender, Volume I, 1905. German publisher Bong & Co Berlin * Leipzig * Wien * Stuttgart."
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CURRENT BIBLIOGRAPHY
THEORY"
Cultural history of the Botanical Garden Berlin and some of ist plants."
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Theories of historiography (de Certeau, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Foucault, Kosellek). "
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Post- and decolonial theories (Chakravorty Spivak, Júlia Almeida, Walter Mignolo, Anibal
Quijano, Enrique Dussel)."
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Theories of modernity / Anthropocene era (Donna Haraway, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro,
Bruno Latour, Suely Rolnik)."
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Theories of space (Bachelard, Foucault, Pápay, Schivelbusch, Schroer ). "
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Art and Politics: politics of images and the aesthetic regime of art with Jacques
Rancière. "
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FIRST WORKS
ARTISTIC RESEARCH"
Victoria Amazonica, 22 min. "
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FIRST WORKS
ARTISTIC RESEARCH"
“The Ever-Garden Effect”, 45 min. Omonoia Athens Biennale 2016. 18"
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THANK
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