Entering the threshold and connecting with the plants in the garden. 

with Julien Boyer, Cinzia di Meglio, Emilio Fantin, Uta Gerullies, Silvia Maglioni, Nikolay Oleynikov, Johannes Pfister, Alessandra Pomarico, Graeme Thomson

Finding a way to greet the plant and to be in relation with them, to explore with our senses and to listen deeply. Exploring this connection in a creative way, lead some of us to draw, paint, assemble earthy collage or fragile rosemary sculptures, sound recording and blind walking. Nikolay set the camera to a 20 seconds frame parameter for each take. Using this simple technique, he captured random sequences that open multiple interpretations of what was happening between people and the garden. Coming back into the house, the group shared their sensations and reflections. The activity was proposed by Uta who invited the participants to find a way to greet the plants and be in relation to them, sensing and listening deeply. Establishing this connection in a creative way, moved us to draw, paint, assemble earthy collage or a fragile rosemary sculpture, record sounds and walk blindly. Uta, who only spoke German, a language not shared by the rest of the group, was able to touch us and communicate with us beyond verbal language. Johannes, provided translation of our conversations sometimes through multiple languages passages, which was also an important tool for establishing different temporalities in our exchange and exercised our capacity of listening. Graeme and Silvia worked with the sounds that Graeme extracted en plein air. They processed the sounds, synthesized them, and edited together with excerpts of a conversation we had, our eyes closed, with local educators, migrants, practitioners sharing their experience of pedagogy*.

We have been sharing a "Glitch"* conversation with guests from the local community of educators. The  conversation was recorded and part of it was later edited with the images filmed during the exercise with the plants, in a sort of ‘chance operation’: the order of speaking was respected while the edited phrases encountered the images by chance.

*talking and listening with eyes closed, introducing themselves in relation to the question of “time” in education, and struggles, desires, challenges, surprises around their work as educators.