A Method for Gathering Leaves

2008

Digital video

No sound

3’06

A short video, showing the artists’ father individually gathering leaves from his garden in the autumn of 2008. The title references 1967 Robert Morris’ essay ‘A Method for Sorting Cows’. The essay is a descriptive text attempting to communicate the complexities of moving cattle. The text vividly demarcates the spaces, orientation and movements required to complete the task, but in doing so presents the inadequacy of writing to disclose the intuitive experiences of the farm-workers.

 

Recognizing Plants as the Bodies of Gods, The One Minutes: Hortus, Nijmegen and Rozenstraat, Rotterdam. Netherlands & Reykjavík International Film Festival

Film Script Dance Walking Tour, ACC Galerie, Weimar. Spring 2012

Photography: Claus Bach

 

Installation view