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ianbrooks:

Totem by Wolf Vostell

Located at the Vostell Museum in Malpartida de Cáceres, Spain, Wolf’s symbolic totem pole combines the holy powers of technology and transportation (and birds, apparently… definitely the triumvirate).

Photo 1: evelivesey / Photo 2: minube / Photo 3: woophy

Source: ianbrooks

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architizer:

A ‘Floating Field’ By Numen/For Use

Sometimes you just want to be a groundhog.

Architizer’s post on this says: “Created for Zagreb’s D-Day festival this past June, the ‘Field Zagreb‘ is a grass-on-cloth carpet that transforms the interior of old unused slaughterhouse.” <—- A garden (well, lawn) in an unexpected place, for sure!

Source: architizer

For his installation titled &#8220;Giardinetta&#8221;, artist Manuel Felisi transformed an old Bianchina automobile into a germinator of blossoming new life. The rooftop of the abandoned car functions as a hanging plant rack complete with glass test tubes, while inside the car, and underneath the flowers, rain falls within the compartment and creates a damp, moist world for bacteria and organisms to grow. (via Junkculture)
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For his installation titled “Giardinetta”, artist Manuel Felisi transformed an old Bianchina automobile into a germinator of blossoming new life. The rooftop of the abandoned car functions as a hanging plant rack complete with glass test tubes, while inside the car, and underneath the flowers, rain falls within the compartment and creates a damp, moist world for bacteria and organisms to grow.

(via Junkculture)

Source: junk-culture.com

hyperallergic: Stevie Famulari’s new Green Line series — currently on view at the Plains Art Museum in Fargo, North Dakota — has fashioned five “elegant” garments (an opera gown, an asymmetrical gown, a lawn coat, a wedding gown and a laced gown) that are seeded with living plants and will grow, change and reseed themselves over the course of their lifetimes. The garments are lined with waterproof material and are completely wearable. This is another great addition to both the wearable gardens and art categories of Gardens in Unexpected Places.
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hyperallergic:

Stevie Famulari’s new Green Line series — currently on view at the Plains Art Museum in Fargo, North Dakota — has fashioned five “elegant” garments (an opera gown, an asymmetrical gown, a lawn coat, a wedding gown and a laced gown) that are seeded with living plants and will grow, change and reseed themselves over the course of their lifetimes.

The garments are lined with waterproof material and are completely wearable.

This is another great addition to both the wearable gardens and art categories of Gardens in Unexpected Places.

utnereader: (via Designboom) Argentinian-born and German-based artist Tomás Saraceno’s “Cloud Cities” installation is currently on display at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin… . These inflated, bubble and spider web-like gardens form communal ground between the earth and sky, aiding in the reorientation of physical representation of environmental influence.
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utnereader:

(via Designboom)

Argentinian-born and German-based artist Tomás Saraceno’s “Cloud Cities” installation is currently on display at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin… . These inflated, bubble and spider web-like gardens form communal ground between the earth and sky, aiding in the reorientation of physical representation of environmental influence.

Lee Mingwei&#8217;s &#8220;The Moving Garden,&#8221; on view at the Brooklyn Museum through January 22, 2012: The Moving Garden comprises a forty-five-foot-long granite table with one hundred freshly cut flowers that appear to grow out of a channel running down its middle. Created by New York–based artist Lee Mingwei, the interactive installation also includes single blossoms arranged around the channel, which visitors are invited to take when they leave the Museum, on the condition that they make a detour on the way to their next destination and give the flower to a stranger as a gift. As the day wears on, the flowers on the table disappear, one by one. The next day, they are replaced, and the cycle begins again. Lee’s piece was inspired by his reading of Lewis Hyde’s The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property, which explores the beneficial effects of gifts on both those who give them and those who receive. Another inspiration came on a spring day, when the artist was sitting along the banks of the Rhône River in Lyon and saw hundreds of flowers inexplicably floating downstream. This 2009 piece is one of many participatory works of art that Lee has been creating since the late 1990s. (via Brooklyn Museum: Lee Mingwei: &#8220;The Moving Garden&#8221;) Related: I also like Lee Mingwei&#8217;s &#8220;The Mending Project,&#8221; posted here (on Unconsumption), which has a similar community-minded spirit to it.
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Lee Mingwei’s “The Moving Garden,” on view at the Brooklyn Museum through January 22, 2012:

The Moving Garden comprises a forty-five-foot-long granite table with one hundred freshly cut flowers that appear to grow out of a channel running down its middle. Created by New York–based artist Lee Mingwei, the interactive installation also includes single blossoms arranged around the channel, which visitors are invited to take when they leave the Museum, on the condition that they make a detour on the way to their next destination and give the flower to a stranger as a gift. As the day wears on, the flowers on the table disappear, one by one. The next day, they are replaced, and the cycle begins again.

Lee’s piece was inspired by his reading of Lewis Hyde’s The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property, which explores the beneficial effects of gifts on both those who give them and those who receive. Another inspiration came on a spring day, when the artist was sitting along the banks of the Rhône River in Lyon and saw hundreds of flowers inexplicably floating downstream. This 2009 piece is one of many participatory works of art that Lee has been creating since the late 1990s.

(via Brooklyn Museum: Lee Mingwei: “The Moving Garden”)

Related: I also like Lee Mingwei’s “The Mending Project,” posted here (on Unconsumption), which has a similar community-minded spirit to it.

Source: brooklynmuseum.org

Via unconsumption: Upcycled bicycles Caroline Macfarlane and Vanessa Nicholas, from Toronto’s OCAD University, gave a bright face-lift to an abandoned Raleigh as a work of art, and part of the Good Bike Project. They hope to make it a city-wide phenomenon. (via guardian.co.uk) Also in Toronto: Bicyclists have turned bike posts into mini-gardens, with plants planted in empty plastic bottles. (A Gardens in Unexpected Places post about it is here.)
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Via unconsumption:

Upcycled bicycles

Caroline Macfarlane and Vanessa Nicholas, from Toronto’s OCAD University, gave a bright face-lift to an abandoned Raleigh as a work of art, and part of the Good Bike Project. They hope to make it a city-wide phenomenon.

(via guardian.co.uk)

Also in Toronto: Bicyclists have turned bike posts into mini-gardens, with plants planted in empty plastic bottles. (A Gardens in Unexpected Places post about it is here.)