The garden as a site to cultivate queer anti-racist communities

这项研究将致力于当代艺术实践和城市生态之间的交叉，以扩大对这两种背景的理解和接触的方式，以及由谁来理解和参与。大流行期间发生的事件突显出，艺术和生态迫切需要与更广泛的社会阶层相关。与植物的互动--将有色人种的生活经验和做法与西方公认的排外的生态方法进行对比--使得压制和边缘化的历史成为人们关注的焦点。研究将“花园”作为一个培养不同历史、情感和主观性的空间进行调查，并探索反种族主义社区如何在植物和土地方面告知、激励和维持自己。重要的是，这个CDA将允许我通过在伦敦Barking和Dagenham区开发一个实际的花园来进行这一调查-在那里我的项目的开发将涉及到不同利益相关者(当地社区、员工、档案管理员等)的积极参与。投资了这个网站。创建一个花园作为我与LBBD社区合作和交流并得到委员会专家团队支持的研究的中心组成部分，将使我能够对当前围绕社区主导的艺术园艺实践的辩论和发展做出重大贡献，并探索其伦理层面。我的方法将是全面和包容的，融合和建立在我作为艺术家、学者、策展人、作家和园丁发展起来的现有专业知识的基础上。我的研究将为LBBD的新城文化战略做出贡献，寻求发展替代的表现形式和参与模式。这些将补充LBBD的公共参与战略，因为该行政区正在发展对其居民种族、文化和身份的多样化和复杂构成的更准确理解。

This research will engage in the crossover between contemporary art practice and urban ecology to extend the way both contexts are understood and engaged with, and by whom. There is a pressing need, exposed in sharp relief by events during the pandemic, for art and ecology to be relevant to broader sections of society. Interaction with plants - contrasting lived experience and practices by people of colour with received exclusionary Western approaches to engaging with ecology - allows for histories of suppression and marginalisation to come to the fore.The research investigates 'the garden' as a space to cultivate divergent histories, sensibilities and subjectivities and explores how anti-racist communities inform, inspire and sustain themselves in relation to plants and the land. Importantly, this CDA will allow me to conduct this enquiry 'on the ground' - by developing an actual garden at London Borough of Barking and Dagenham (LBBD)'s East Manor House where the development of my project will involve the active participation of diverse stakeholders (local communities, staff, archivists, etc.) invested in the site. Creating a garden as a central component of my research in collaboration and exchange with LBBD's communities and supported by the council's team of experts will allow me to significantly contribute to current debates around and developments in community-led artistic gardening practice and explore its ethical dimensions. My approach will be holistic and inclusive, fusing and building on my existing expertise developed as an artist, academic, curator, writer, and gardener. Contributing to LBBD's New Town Culture strategy, my research will seek to develop alternate forms of representation and modes of participation. These will complement LBBD's public engagement strategies at time when the Borough is in the process of developing a more accurate understanding of the diverse and complex make-up of its inhabitants' ethnicities, cultures and identities.