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The Traveling Plant: Preparatory Logbook

People were asked, in a caring hosting tradition, to tell the plant what it could expect to experience and to discover along its journey, what and whom (humans and other than humans) it may encounter. Choose a contributor in the menu (v) or browse by following the arrows < >

Haris Garouniatis & Ana Čavić

Fiori Musicali

Haris Garouniatis (text), Ana Čavić (visual)
Athens, Greece ; Ljubljana, Slovenia
Ana Čavić: artist, PhD student; Winchester School of Art (Winchester, UK) as part of University of Southampton (Southampton, UK)
Haris Garouniatis: poet

Fiori Musicali, paper-cut poem, Ana Čavić

Everyone knows that classical music was not written for people. Because of the cologne you gave me, every year on my birthday I jump into my armchair like a plant in a pot, listening to Frescobaldi on full blast and smelling wonderfully.

Translated into English by Ana Čavić and Haris Garouniatis

Όλοι ξέρουν πως η κλασική μουσική δεν γράφτηκε για τους ανθρώπους. Με βάση την κολόνια που μου χάρισες, κάθε χρόνο στα γενέθλιά μου χώνομαι στην πολυθρόνα μου όπως σ’ ένα κασπώ, ακούγοντας στο τέρμα Φρεσκομπάλντι και μυρίζοντας υπέροχα.

Partners

The Traveling Plant is a collective project created in 2020 by Annick Bureaud, Tatiana Kourochkina, Marta de Menezes, Claudia Schnugg and Robertina Šebjanič, and further developed with the following seed organisations Leonardo/Olats (Paris), Quo Artis (Barcelona and Treviso), Cultivamos Cultura (Lisbon), Sektor Institute (Ljubljana) and the initial support of the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation.