our garden grew through the gradual development and publication of our own videos and texts. These are an expression of an artistic cross-border and cross-time-zone conversation of the eight artists: from India, Azerbaijan, Iran, Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco, Germany and Wales in Great Britain. The audience also enriched this digital long-term performance with questions, tasks and thoughts. The results are the fruits of the garden, which can be discovered on a stroll through the garden. Take some time and calm for this, as the garden follows different rules and logics in its various places.

A Day In our project, the sun illuminates different realities of life and work in eight different countries, which harbour many different cultures and ways of life. On all these horizons, the artists address questions that concern us all, but each and every one of them under their own very special circumstances. The garden is an attempt to create a new culture of debate through the interplay of new digital and analog forms of artistic dialogue, critical exchange as well as productive shifts and versioning. The garden offers a temporary respite from differences that are constructed by national borders, strict identity features, the rules of the liberal market economy and the dangers of the changing climate. The artists use this open space in the garden to remember their own strength with which they can shape a future worth living together.

Credit

Direction and performance: Youness Atbane (Morocco), Zarif Bakirova (Azerbaijan),

Amitesh Grover (India), Abdalla Daif (Egypt), Lucy Ellinson (Cymru/Wales, UK),

Daniel Hengst (Germany), Azade Shahmiri (Iran), Maya Zbib (Lebanon), Lydia Ziemke (Germany)

Idea and concept: Lydia Ziemke/suite42 and Abdalla Daif

Dramaturgy: Amitesh Grover, Daniel Hengst and Lydia Ziemke

Media art concept and realisation, programming: Daniel Hengst

Programming and hosting: Alex Hof

Dramaturgical translation concept: PANTHEA

Translation work and coordination: Raman Khalaf & Crew (PANTHEA)

Production management: Tammo Walter/suite42

Assistance: Hiba Mehrez, Mahdiyeh Hashemi

Graphics: Afra Nobahar

A production by suite42 in cooperation with Youness Atbane, Zarif Bakirova, Abdalla Daif, Lucy Ellinson, Amitesh Grover, Daniel Hengst, Azade Shahmiri, Maya Zbib and take.V.

The Sun Sets Eight Times A Day is being developed as part of “dive in. Programme for Digital Interactions” of the Federal Cultural Foundation, funded by the Federal Government

Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) in the NEUSTART KULTUR programme.

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