Nils Norman Radical Gardening Trailer
Nils Norman
The Gerrard Winstanley Radical Gardening Space Reclamation Mobile Field Center and Weather Station (European Chapter)Concept and design by Nils Norman Built by Doepner / Cummerow // f18, Hamburg 2000 Produced and assited by the Galerie für Landschaftskunst Supported by Anne Marie and Sören Mygind |
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It has been designed to travel between community gardens / allotments, town fairs, protest camps, and schools, where it is opened up and made ready for action. When stationary the bike trailer opened up reveals a small xerox machine, a library of books available for xeroxing, a weather station and a small working desk. Ontop is a solar panel which collects solar energy whenever the sun is out. The library consists of a unique collection of books, some quite rare, on experimental urban gardening / farming, horticulture, weather, D. I. Y. (do it yourself) culture, alternative city design and city gentrification. The bike is named after Gerrard Winstanley, the leader and Spokeperson for “the Diggers”, a group of 17th century indigent peasants who tried to defy the enclosure of common land by private interests; occupying it in en masse, digging it up, cultivating it for food and squatting. Nils Norman |
In der Ausstellung KÜHLLABOR/REGIONALE12, Graz, 2012 Photo: Wolfgang_Thaler
Video, 31 Minuten.
Fahrt mit Nils Normans "Gerrard Winstanley Radical Gardening Space Reclamation Mobile Field Center" von Hamburg über Radbruch,
Kunstraum der Universität Lüneburg, Transvaal und Wolfsburg nach Braunschweig.
Mit Texten aus der Radical-Gardening-Bibliothek des Anhängers, gelesen von Nils Norman und Trine Skraastad.
Fahrer: Till Krause. Kamera: Florian Hüttner. Editiert von Jan Christian Wiemann.
Herausgegeben vom Kunstraum der Universität Lüneburg und der GFLK Galerie für Landschaftskunst, 2000.
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