Plantas Parlantes.

The installation Plantas Parlantes (2010) is a collaborative work between the artists Gilberto Esparza (MX), Javier Busturia (ES), Jigni Wang (CN), Ricardo O’Nascimento (BR) and Jelle Dekker (NL).

Dordrecht (Netherlands), April 2010.

After an initial investigation on local water planning in a context so rich and fragile as the Dutch one, the group discussed the creation of a system capable of establishing relations between the human world and the vegetable world, building a sonic sculpture formed by plants and electronic circuits where the contact between man and plant triggers sounds and poetically embodies this relationship.

The installation was presented as a public workshop where people could bring their plants and discover what sounds they would make.