In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ICA Live Art Festival 2022 focused on the idea of consciousness as common to all life and asked questions about intimacy and the continued precariousness of the human being in a still-untransformed South Africa. Kirstenbosch Gardens provided a unique fauna and flora backdrop to these interrogations, unique in its beauty, yet politically contested ground.
About Melanie Boehi
Melanie Boehi is a historian and research associate at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER). Talking Plants was/became the inaugural workshop of the Centre for Plant Interpretation, in which plant interpreters, including artists, scientists, conservationists, healers, anthropologists, designers, historians, writers and scholars of African metaphysics attempted to talk to, interact with and decode the language of plants.
