The Vegetable Parliament: Mistura

The artist and researcher Marina Guzzo connects bodies with landscapes, fashion with nature, memory with everyday life. As part of The Vegetable Parliament, she leads a multi-day Mistura workshop that fosters alliances between people, clothing, objects, and plants. The workshop begins with the search for fallen leaves, discarded objects, colorful garments, and personal memories. These elements are ritually interwoven and, on the final day, staged as a choreography in the garden of silent green.

Mistura is a participatory performance that proposes a game of transformation. It aims to forge a ritual between humans and plants and to reflect on a choreographic blending. The title plays on a concept by Italian philosopher Emanuele Coccia, who proposes a metaphysics of mixture.

Mistura suggests creating a communal choreography through movement, one that builds alternatives for interspecies, wild, and non-human worlds. It acts as a form of resistance against the Anthropocene/Plantocene/Capitalocene, bringing together perspectives that point toward a cosmopolitics of other ways of being in the world: tribe, roots, sap, leaves, blossoms, and fruits.

Full Programme: www.thevegetableparliament.com

Thursday, July 24
Lawn
Admission free
 

Team
Artistic Director: José Délano
Invited Artist: Marina Guzzo
Costume Design: Lacy Barry
Curator The Growing Sessions: Christian Hiller

“The Vegetable Parliament” is funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds.