The publication documents The Commons: Re-Enchanting the World and features colour images of the work and installations of artists, Kelechi Anucha and Carl Gent, Sam Wallman, Sigrid Holmwood, Catherine Morland and Amanda Couch, with texts written by the artists contextualising their response to the Commons and the work’s relationship to The MERL collections.
The book also features introductory texts by the curators, an essay tour of the gallery installations by the curator of MERL Collections, Dr. Ollie Douglas, an essay by Sigrid Holmwood, as well as documentation of the events, workshops and other relationships that formed as part of the project.
ISBN: 978-1-7396992-0-8.
Edited by Catherine Morland and Amanda Couch
Designed by Kristen Fraser
Printed by ExWhyZed.
£12 + £2.50 postage.
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Publication
We launched the publication at the South London Botanical Institute on 2 July 2021. Introductions and short readings from the book by Catherine and Amanda were followed by a song performed by Carl Gent.
To accompany the launch, we invited Elki Guillen, gardener, researcher and former chef from Mexico, who shared how to grow, care for, and eat cacti. He offered us tastes of his seasonal local crop of raw and cooked cacti combined with colourful sauces and tortillas. In Mexico, the use of Opuntias or Nopalli goes back thousands of years. Through Elki’s knowledge, we experienced this taste sensation like the Mexicans, Mayans, Teotihuacans, and Toltecs did a long ago.
