Sarah van Lamsweerde, Esther Mugambi, and Raoul Carrer will be back for a sequel of their “Sore Spots” project:
During WW I and II, civilians were encouraged to create victory gardens: vegetable, fruit, and herb gardens planted at private residences and public parks to reduce the pressure on food supply brought on by the war effort. The victory gardens were a type of propaganda, showing an enemy the resilience of people: even a bomb crater can be turned into something productive and beautiful.
Agripuncture / Sore Spot Songs takes the crater garden as a metaphor and applies it to the urban present: what are the sore spots in our cities and how can we collectively care for them?