Installation, Art Hall, Tallinn, Spring Exhibition, 2012
Foto: Meeli Küttim
Visitors could plant a couple of barley seeds in the pots, wish for something, and write out the wish on the wall.
Foto: Meeli Küttim
Foto: Meeli Küttim
Foto: Meeli Küttim
In August, before the harvest feast.
Foto: Marje Taska
Video of a performance by Marje Taska (7:07 m)
The performance was one of the opening events for the international exhibition Re.act.feminism#2 – performing archive, before held in Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark, to be opened in Tallinn Art Hall gallery.
Object "7289 Hibernating Barley Seeds",
Tallinn Art Hall, Spring Exhibition 2013 (a year later)
The Installation was composed of about a hundred flowerpots in line and filled with soil. Visitors could plant a couple of seeds in the pots, wish for something, and write out the wish on the wall. After the end of the exhibition, the plants were taken out and replanted in Tallin's Liberty Square carrying thousands of wishes (5700 visitors at the Spring Exhibition). The Grain and the Chaff, a harvest feast / performance took place there later in August, as part of the exhibition Re.act.feminism#2 at Tallinn Art Hall.