Using
methods which exist in the public domain and in the proprietary
and commercial scientific research domains, the cultivation
lab illustrates the discourse into the open and closed systems
of language and knowledge in the two binary areas of the domestic
and the scientific.
The cultivation
lab takes cuttings of edible plantae from allotments, gardens,
windowsills and roadsides to clone and grow the ‘explant’
material through in-vitro micropropagation techniques. Oscillating
through an autonomous ‘wild’ space of ecology,
domestic knowledge and culture through to a controlled, contained
semi-asceptic scientific space, the lab re-uses and re-cycles
old idea’s from open and closed systems of authorship
and knowledge as the ‘cut & paste’ merger
of disciplines, domains and debate, creating on-going and
living feedback loops.
