Cultivated Affects The Artistic Politics of Landscape and Memory in Amman’s Gardens

ABSTRACT This article analyzes two participatory art projects, Plant/Lives and Gardening the Suburbs, which fostered affective encounters with the gardens of Amman, Jordan, for its participants. Building on legacies of spatially exploratory and participatory art in Amman, these projects challenged t...

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Published in:Visual anthropology review 2020-09, Vol.36 (2), p.275-295
Main Author: McLaughlin‐Alcock, Colin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
affect
Consciousness
Gardens & gardening
Geography
landscape and memory
Meaning
Middle East
participatory art
Politics
Segmentation
Social fragmentation
urban space
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Summary:ABSTRACT This article analyzes two participatory art projects, Plant/Lives and Gardening the Suburbs, which fostered affective encounters with the gardens of Amman, Jordan, for its participants. Building on legacies of spatially exploratory and participatory art in Amman, these projects challenged the social fragmentation and historic erasure that characterize Amman’s geography. These artworks provoked a dissensus, or awareness of contradictions inherent in Amman’s urban space, and challenged participants to collectively work through those contradictions. This process mobilized new formations of collectivity, as participants with diverse interests came together to renarrate the gardens as sites of collective meaning.
ISSN:1058-7187
1548-7458
DOI:10.1111/var.12219