Planting bed voids
Garden Game
Kortrijk, Belgium
At the 2009 Secret Gardens Festival in Belgium, BAM (Beijing) experiments with how to make a garden remotely. Instructions for how to play A Garden Game are emailed to Belgium and the game is played by local collaborators in the backyard of Broelmuseum in Kortrijk. Rolling dice generates a chaotic maze of tectonic hedge walls. Dancers (Passerelle) locate 35 planting beds using dice, a hand-made dial, string, and stakes; then garden builders (Tuinarchitectuur-Tuinaanleg) use dice and the dial to prepare and plant the beds with either leylandii, fagus, or bamboo. The game is documented by video artist Koen Moerman. The Chaotic Rise and Fall of the White Masked Man and Other Common Acts is a video installation which views the garden as a stage for living, and is a work-in-progress now on exhibit at the Broelmuseum.
