Insert #7
Edited by Yvonne Volkart
Contributions by Giovanni Aloi and Yvonne Volkart; Noelia Billi; Felipe Castelblanco, Ayênan Johnquinchoa Juajibioy and Nataliauribe Macías; Ursula Damm and Michaela Ott; Matthew Fuller; Julia Mensch; Cate Sandilands; Rasa Smite
A collaboration between Plants_Intelligence. Learning Like a Plant and FSP Cultural Analysis in the Arts/DKV ZHdK
Launch 28 August 2025, 6 pm
Palm House, Old Botanical Garden of the University of Zurich
Karel Miler, Felt by Fresh Grass, 1976, Performance
The seventh issue of the open access publication platform INSERT, entitled Plants_Intelligence: Towards a Vegetal Aesthetics, is edited by Yvonne Volkart. It includes contributions by numerous artists and authors who are looking for adequate artistic representations of plant life: Giovanni Aloi and Yvonne Volkart; Noelia Billi; Felipe Castelblanco, Ayênan Johnquinchoa Juajibioy and Nataliauribe Macías; Ursula Damm and Michaela Ott; Matthew Fuller; Julia Mensch; Cate Sandilands; and Rasa Smite.
The research project Plants_Intelligence. Learning Like a Plant with Yvonne Volkart, Felipe Castelblanco, Julia Mensch, Rasa Smite) is funded by the SNSF and hosted by the Institute Art Gender Nature HGK Basel FHNW. Following studies in Lebanon and Finland, atmospheric scientist Lubna Dada is conducting research at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Villigen. She explores the formation of clouds and the understanding of bioaerosols—such as pollen or tiny particles that form from plant scents in the air—and sees them as one of the ways how plants communicate.