words & weeds

2021

An ongoing live chat between Serbia and Austria, sown in Užice
(Serbia), grown in Vienna (Austria).

chatters / performers: Milica Dukić, Lindsey Nicholson, Lena Violetta Leitner
concept: Lena Violetta Leitner
first part, intervention in Serbia: Lindsey Nicholson, Lena Violetta Leitner

commissioned by: Improper Walls

curation: Ale Zapata

Detail Installation, Improper Walls, Vienna (AT), 2021, (c) LVL

…dies ist nicht die dokumentation einer performance, die in serbien
entstand. dies ist ein gespräch, das wie unkraut wuchert, zwischen
österreich und serbien.  
what does it mean to be a ‘weed’?
vielleicht sind unsere gesprächsfäden unkräuter, lacht milica.
does it mean unwanted, taking resources from the wanted? or does it
mean being resilient, a pioneer, a survivor?
ovo je razgovor koji ne vodi nikuda i ne mora biti od koristi.
weeds do work as well. 
ko odlučuje da li sam korov ili ne?

The project was created after a residency at the Reflector Gallery in Uzice, Serbia.
The results were exhibited at the end of the residency.

The exhibition Hospitable Utopia.vienna.ed showed these works in the rooms of Improper Walls.

(c) Niko Havranek
(c) Niko Havranek
(c) Niko Havranek