- Field Recording
- Interview
- Soundscape
- Atmospheric
PLANT STORIES is about human relations to/with plants, why they are political, and how they can be different. It is a current summer programme June – October 2025 at ZK/U (Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik) in Moabit. Wit Plant Stories Radio, we give some space for contexts, backgrounds, learnings, reflections of the projects in the series, and also find out what happens when different artists in the programme are in resonance and conversation with each other. Also, we appreciate a space for sharing and listening to related sounds.
In preparation of our big finissage programme on 4 October, we talk with researcher and writer Sina Ribak (https://www.sinaribak.net/) about her project on natureculture stories of the flax plant (Lein auf deutsch) and what emancipatory politics could mean in the context of human relations to plants. On 4 October, Sina presents "flax friction. Eine Pflanze namens Lein" – a gathering, storytelling, sounds & a flax plant (https://www.zku-berlin.org/timeline/plant-stories-6-flax-friction-eine-pflanze-namens-lein/). We invite Bilge Emine Arslan (https://www.bilgeeminearslan.com/) to reflect on her project "Grapes, Land and Resistance" in July, and share a reading of the letter exchange between two women tending a garden in South-Eastern Turkey and in Berlin respectively. Rooted in ancestral memory and family archive research, the project reflects on the role of women in preserving land-based knowledge through everyday practices, and considers the role of plant relations in resistance struggles. (https://www.zku-berlin.org/timeline/plant-stories-3-grapes-land-and-resistance-letter-based-dialogue/). Hosted by Andrea Goetzke, co-curator of PLANT STORIES.
Plant Stories: https://www.zku-berlin.org/timeline/plant-stories/, https://www.instagram.com/plant.stories_/
Join us on 4 October for our finissage programme at ZK/U, 15:00 til late, with a performative dinner with many different contributions from 19:00.
flax friction with Sina Ribak starts at 15:00.
Image Credit: Stefanie Kulisch
