Outer Seed Shadow (OSS#VLC)

Outer Seed Shadow (OSS) is a series of public art interventions created by Juanli Carrión that materializes the union between plant and human interaction, using different plant species as representatives of social groups or individuals.  OSS It is an investigation that can happen at different geographic levels—county, city, borough, neighborhood, district, block or building—.

 

The main component of the intervention is the creation of a garden based upon a series of video interviews in which plants are self-identified by specific subjects and then placed according to the interviewees’ real- life physical, political or emotional locations within their community. For several months the installation functions as a community garden hosting weekly workshops made in partnership with local groups and institutions.

 

The outcome of OSS is an informed discussion generated from visitors and participants about local community interactions and the politics of the issues addressed in each specific garden.

 

For its edition in Valencia, OSS will use the city's recent history of immigration as one of its geopolitical boundaries to create the garden that will be installed in the cloister of La Nau in September 2015.

 

For the development of  OSS#VLC Juanli Carrión will interview 19 immigrants residing in the city of Valencia, to learn about their cultural adaptation to the city. Interviewees will choose a plant that will represent them in the garden. The interviews will take place between May 26 and June 25, 2015.