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 |
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Links: Erste Ausstellung und Ausgangspunkt für die Reisen: Galerie für Landschaftskunst, Hamburg, 2000.
Rechts: Kunstverein Braunschweig, 2000
Links: Auf dem Campus der Universität Lüneburg mit Dan Petermans & Galerie für Landschaftskunsts "Extended Falster Video/Greenhouse", 2000.
Rechts: Kunstverein Wolfsburg, 2000
Links: in der Ausstellung "out of space", Schnitt Ausstellungsraum im Kölnischen Kunstverein, 2000. Foto: Kölnischer Kunstverein.
Rechts: Tate Britain, London, 2004. Foto: Tate Britain
In der Ausstellung und Symposium KÜHLLABOR, Krakauebene, Österreich, 2012. Fotos: Wolfgang Thaler