A Garden of Prosthesis
2022-2024Performance, Project
A garden exists as a configuration of various placed objects—stones, plants, and topography. The act of gardening is to involve and chain new objects into a field that transforms each time a single element is placed. These arranged objects bind together, forming a structure that exists as a bundle of fluctuating relationships between them. A garden, then, is the arrangement of objects that remains as a result of this chain of events. [*]
In this performance, the "garden" involves not only stones and trees but also tools, machines, AI, virtual objects, and the human body as equivalent entities. As these elements interlink and mingle, they begin to fuse, each treating the other as an extension of its own flesh—a "prosthesis." Through this process, the performance attempts to generate a "Garden of Prosthesis": a space where boundaries between the organic and the inorganic dissolve.
*Adapted from Tomoki Yamauchi, When the Form of a Garden is Born: The Poetics of Gardens and the Wisdom of Gardeners (Film Art, Inc., 2023).
