Battlefield

r/e projects

BattlefieldAuthor(s): Gabriella Hirst\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: r/e projects, Germany\nImprint: r/e projects\nISBN-13: 9783000787010, 978-3000787010\nSynopsis\nBattlefieldis an artwork by Gabriella Hirst, a garden of plants whose officially registered cultivar names reference theatres of war, armed conflict and the military. The plant varieties were bred and given these names over the last 500 years by various nurseries and individual breeders, for example, Peony Victoire de la Marne (registered and named in 1919), Rosa polyantha Dunkerque [tel], Rosa floribunda Atombombe [tel]. Hirst has been researching, assembling and tending to these plants since 2014 in the community gardens of the Tempelhofer Feld, Berlin, as part of a durational project questioning how the cultural memory of violent events is gardened. The histories represented in the Battlefield garden are weedy, overgrowing, and rhizomatic. As a long-term project requiring constant pruning, winter-care, pricking-out, so.