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，以扩展这两种背景的理解和参与方式，以及由谁。在疫情期间发生的事件中，艺术和生态与更广泛的社会阶层相关的迫切需要得到了极大的缓解。与植物的互动--将有色人种的生活经验和实践与西方排斥性的生态学方法进行对比--让压迫和边缘化的历史脱颖而出。研究调查了“花园”作为培养不同历史、情感和主体性的空间，并探索了反种族主义社区如何告知，在植物和土地上激发和维持自己。重要的是，这个CDA将允许我进行“实地”调查-通过在伦敦巴金自治市和达格纳姆（LBBD）的东庄园开发一个实际的花园，我的项目的开发将涉及不同利益相关者（当地社区，工作人员，档案管理员等）的积极参与。投资在网站上。创建一个花园作为我的研究的核心组成部分，与LBBD的社区合作和交流，并由理事会的专家团队支持，将使我能够为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，并探索其道德层面。我的方法将是全面和包容的，融合和建立在我作为艺术家，学术，策展人，作家和园丁发展的现有专业知识。为LBBD的新城文化战略做出贡献，我的研究将寻求发展替代形式的代表和参与模式。这些将补充LBBD的公众参与战略的时候，自治市正在制定一个更准确的理解其居民的种族，文化和身份的多样性和复杂的构成的过程。

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.