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35Architecture/Landscape/Political EconomyScapegoat Issue 02 MaterialismScapegoat
upon the present. Exploring the conditions that make representing history possible, the essays in this section try to articulate an account of the shifting role of time in a global scenario defi ned by the logic of the neolib-eral information economy.
Overall, the fi rst issue of No Order makes a compelling case for the need to turn our attention to the conditions of art’s production and display; to art as a place of labour, confl ict, and potential subversion. At the same time, its very size, the range of its coverage, and the star status of several of its contributors beg the question of the role of competitive theoretical overproduction under the current regime of cognitive capitalism—a question, incidentally, that Penzin and Vilensky explicitly raise in their contribution to the fi rst section of the magazine. An additional, related source of uneasiness is the absence of any acknowledge-ment of the fact that some of the essays are reprints. Willats’s text, for one, was originally published in 2003 by Artlab in collaboration with Control Magazine, the pioneering artist magazine published and edited by Willats himself since 1965. Similarly, Penzin and Vilensky’s conversation is illustrated with reproduc-tions of covers (designed by Vilensky) of the magazine Chto Delat?/What is to be done?, but the latter is nowhere acknowledged as the text’s original source (the conversation appeared in the March 2009 issue). Let’s be clear: the issue here is not intellectual owner-ship, but the transparency of networks of cultural production—those very networks whose exposure is so convincingly positioned by No Order as one of the essential functions of art discourse in the present historical moment.
Francesco Gagliardi is an artist based in Toronto.
Notes
1. Hito Steyerl, “Politics of Art: Contemporary Art and the Transition to Post-Democracy,” e-flux journal 21 (Dec. 2010), accessed November 7, 2011, www.e-flux.com/journal/view/181
2. Julieta Aranda, Anton Vidokle, Brian Kuan Wood, eds., Are You Working Too Much? Post- Fordism, Precarity, and the Labor of Art ( Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2011).
Scapegoat Architecture/Landscape/Political Economy Issue 02 Materialsm
The
Jard
in d
e la
Con
nais
sanc
e is
a t
emp
orar
y g
ard
en c
once
ived
for
the
Inte
rnat
iona
l Gar
den
Fe
stiv
al a
t Le
s Ja
rdin
s d
e M
étis
.1 It
con
sist
s of
m
ulti
-col
oure
d w
ood
en b
oard
s, a
num
ber
of
cult
ivat
ed m
ushr
oom
s, a
nd s
ome
40,0
00 b
ooks
th
at f
orm
wal
ls, b
ench
es, a
nd c
arp
ets.
Bas
ed o
n an
op
en c
omp
osit
iona
l pri
ncip
le, t
hese
ele
men
ts
are
asse
mb
led
to
crea
te a
gar
den
sp
ace
that
is
inte
gra
ted
wit
h b
oth
the
site
and
str
uctu
re o
f th
e fo
rest
.C
eleb
ratin
g bo
ok c
ultu
re a
s an
ong
oing
pr
oces
s of
sha
ping
, aes
thet
iciz
ing,
and
dis
trib
ut-
ing
info
rmat
ion,
the
Jar
din
de la
Con
nais
sanc
e (o
r G
ard
en o
f Cog
nitio
n) d
oes
not
illus
trat
e th
e bo
ok’s
“r
etur
n to
nat
ure”
or
atte
mpt
a b
iblic
al re
conc
ilia-
tion.
It d
oes,
how
ever
, eng
age
with
the
myt
hica
l re
latio
n be
twee
n kn
owle
dge
and
natu
re in
tegr
al t
o th
e co
ncep
t of
“pa
radi
se,”
whi
ch h
as b
een
a pr
ima-
ry re
fere
nce
for
the
gard
en t
hrou
ghou
t hi
stor
y. T
he
“tre
e of
kno
wle
dge”
has
tod
ay b
ecom
e a
fore
st:
a pl
enitu
de o
f mul
timed
ia a
nd a
n ov
erw
helm
ing
w
orld
of i
nfor
mat
ion.
By
usin
g bo
oks
as m
ater
ial i
n th
e co
nstr
uctio
n of
the
gar
den,
we
conf
ront
the
se
inst
rum
ents
of k
now
ledg
e w
ith t
he t
empo
ralit
y of
na
ture
. Tra
nsfo
rmat
ion
and
disi
nteg
ratio
n de
stab
i-liz
e th
e su
ppos
ed t
imel
ess
valu
e of
the
boo
k.Th
e co
mpo
sitio
n of
the
boo
k-vo
lum
es is
str
uc-
ture
d w
ith b
right
ly c
olou
red
woo
d pl
ates
, whi
ch
bind
the
indi
vidu
al s
tack
s to
geth
er. O
ver
time,
the
ar
tifi c
ial c
olou
rs o
f the
se e
lem
ents
will
con
tras
t th
e gr
ayin
g to
nes
of t
he e
xpos
ed p
aper
in t
he b
ooks
an
d th
e su
rrou
ndin
g fo
rest
. Ove
rall,
the
ort
hogo
nal
orga
niza
tion
is re
min
isce
nt o
f a t
ypic
al N
eo-P
last
ic
com
posi
tion
from
the
ear
ly 2
0th
cent
ury,
invo
king
an
opt
imis
tic o
rient
atio
n ba
sed
on “
prim
ary”
ele
-m
ents
. And
yet
, thi
s “u
topi
an”
notio
n is
cou
nter
ed
by t
he g
radu
al d
ecom
posi
tion
of t
he p
aper
mat
e-ria
l. W
e ha
ve t
ried
to im
plem
ent
the
conc
ept
of
tran
sfor
mat
ion
as t
he g
arde
n’s
prim
ary
aest
hetic
st
ruct
ure.
Sev
eral
var
ietie
s of
edi
ble
mus
hroo
ms
are
culti
vate
d on
the
boo
ks. T
hese
acc
entu
ate
the
tran
sfor
mat
ive
proc
ess
of t
he li
tera
rily
fi xed
kn
owle
dge,
invo
king
the
sem
antic
s of
cul
tura
l and
na
tura
l wis
dom
. By
visu
aliz
ing
deca
y as
a li
fecy
cle
segm
ent,
kno
wle
dge
is e
xem
plifi
ed a
s a
proc
ess.
Th
e bo
oks
in t
he g
arde
n ar
e su
rplu
s bo
oks,
su
pplie
d by
loca
l pub
lic li
brar
ies
and
scho
ol in
stitu
-tio
ns. T
here
is a
wid
e va
riety
of s
izes
, for
mat
s an
d
genr
es: f
rom
rom
ance
nov
els
to re
ligio
us t
exts
, sc
ienc
e to
edu
catio
n bo
oks,
thr
iller
s, a
nd e
ncyc
lo-
pedi
as. M
ost
of t
he b
ooks
hav
e be
en w
aitin
g as
re
cycl
ing
mat
eria
l in
stor
age
spac
es in
adv
ance
of
an in
crea
se in
pap
er p
ulp
pric
es (w
hich
did
not
tak
e pl
ace)
. The
dis
card
ed a
nd e
xpos
ed b
ooks
rem
ind
th
e vi
sito
r, so
met
imes
sur
pris
ingl
y, s
omet
imes
pai
n-fu
lly, t
hat
both
nat
ural
pro
cess
es a
nd t
he b
ook
as
med
ium
are
sys
tem
s of
repr
oduc
tion.
Kno
wle
dge
is n
ever
to
be h
ad w
ithou
t ef
fort
and
cul
tivat
ion—
it re
quire
s th
e pr
epar
atio
n of
a s
eedi
ng g
roun
d to
ge
nera
te a
nd b
e cr
eate
d an
ew. T
he J
ardi
n de
la
Con
nais
sanc
e co
uld
be s
een
as p
art
of s
uch
culti
va-
tion:
a li
brar
y, a
n in
form
atio
n pl
atfo
rm, a
dyn
amic
re
alm
of k
now
ledg
e, a
sen
sual
and
inte
ract
ive
read
ing
room
. In
the
gar
den’
s se
cond
yea
r th
e bo
oks
have
gra
yed,
and
mol
d no
w r
ival
s th
e cu
ltiva
ted
m
ushr
oom
s. V
isito
rs h
ave
eter
naliz
ed t
hem
selv
es
and
thei
r lo
ves
with
scr
ibbl
es, t
ags,
and
oth
er
mar
ks. “
Mar
cel a
nd A
man
da,”
an
apho
rism
, or
the
enth
usia
sm fo
r a
boy-
band
hav
e be
en s
ubm
itted
to
the
gard
en’s
par
ticul
ar d
estin
y of
tim
e.
Jard
in d
e la
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nnai
ssan
ce10
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haft
sarc
hite
ktur
Thilo
Fo
lker
ts +
Ro
dne
y La
Tour
elle
Thilo Folkerts is a landscape architect who
designs, experiments, and constructs. He also
pursues his interest in the unique language of
gardens as an author, editor, and translator.
He founded the office 100Landschaftsarchitektur
in Berlin in 2007. He has realized tempo-
rary and permanent projects internationally
since 1997.
Rodney LaTourelle is a Canadian artist, writer,
and designer based in Berlin. His artistic
approach is informed by his education in
architecture and landscape architecture. His
site- specific installations have been exhibited
inter nationally, including the National Gallery
of Canada; the University of Quebec, Montreal;
MUDAM, Luxembourg; and Plug In ICA, Winnipeg.
Technical Data
Garden site: ca. 250 m2
ca. 40,000 books = 30-40 tonnes
Building budget: CAD$20,000
Mushrooms: Coprinus comatus (Shaggy Mane),
Grifola frondosa (Hen of the Woods, Maitake),
Pleurotus citrinopileatus (Golden Oyster),
Pleurotus columbinus (Blue Oyster), Pleurotus
djamor (Pink Oyster), Pleurotus ostreatus
(Pearl Oyster), Pleurotus pulmonarius (Phoenix,
Indian Oyster), and Stropharia rugoso-annulata
(Wine Cap).
Collaborators: Laura Strandt, Maike Jungvo-
gel (100land). Realization on site: Johanna
Ballhaus, Elisabeth and Jessica Charbonneau,
Sandrine Perrault.
Note
1. Ranked among the leading garden festivals in
the world, the International Garden Festival
at Les Jardins de Métis/Reford Gardens in
Grand-Métis, Quebec presents temporary gardens
at the cutting edge of garden design, land-
scape, architecture, design, and environmen-
tal art. Launched in 2000, the International
Garden Festival has presented 110 gardens by
more than 200 designers from 15 countries and
has attracted more than 900,000 visitors.
www.refordgardens.com/english/festival/
edition.php