ROT is an editorial and curatorial project that fosters a diversity of artistic gestures and processes.
Inspired by techniques of fermentation and later on by the world of fungi, it digs into the relationship between live arts and living cultures.
Inspired by techniques of fermentation and later on by the world of fungi, it digs into the relationship between live arts and living cultures.
ROT MAGAZINERot magazine is a research as well as a book of recipes. Intended as a performance between literary genres and disciplines, it plays between the serious and the banal. Rot magazine functions as a catalogue linking the artists invited to the Rot Gardens editions of 2023 and 2024.
After the Issue Zero, the second issue of ROT, ROT One, is dedicated to the theme of IMMUNITY understood in a broad sense. “Considering art as a form of life, a form of transition, how do we assemble, but also how do we decompose? How are we affected, contaminated and infected? Art as a viral transmission to which we are certainly not immune, how do we intimate with its rotting, decaying and dying?” |
ROT GARDENSRot Garden is an invitation to hang out in a space where things with different durations and intensities become public. A garden is a place to contemplate, wander, spend time on one's own, or experience nature in a dedicated way. The events in the ROT Gardens unfold from the magazine ROT, a catalogue and a catalyst for programmes different in each venue.
Nyon, 11-13/08/23 ROT GARDEN, far festival Brussels, 18/10-11/11 RUINED & ROT n0dine + rile* launch Brussels, 3-4/5 ROT GARDEN Kaaistudio's Kortrijk , 21-22/6 ROT GARDEN BUDA Mushrooming as a way of working by Jessica Gysel, HART NR. 235, 21 JUNI 2023 |
Image credits:
concept by Sara Manente from projects in collaboration with AD=Adrijana Gvozdenovic IK=Inju Kaboom DR=Deborah Robbiano GE=Günbike Erdemir ST=Sébastien Tripod JR=Jennifer Russo KM=Katja Mater Image treatment by Deborah Robbiano
1 Nail art affects theory, for a.pass Not in the Mood, Brussels, with AG 2 Kombucha skin, first batch, at Fahrenheit 451 House, Catskill, with IK 3 Nail art affects theory leftovers growing inside kombucha skin, WIELS, Brussels 4 Nails and clay sculpture for ROT GARDEN, BUDA , Kortrijk 5 Nail art affects theory publication, WPZimmer, Antwerp, with AG 6 Dried corn cob infected with Huitlacoche (corn smut, latin: Ustilago maydis), WIELS, Brussels 7 Nail art affects theory, for a.pass Not in the Mood, Brussels, with AG 8 Pictures of LomaLab basketry workshop, Brussels 9 Midjourney AI bot interpretation of an image of a sculpture made of wax, straw and dried Pink Oyster mushrooms, for MOLD SPILLOVERS, Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, by DR
concept by Sara Manente from projects in collaboration with AD=Adrijana Gvozdenovic IK=Inju Kaboom DR=Deborah Robbiano GE=Günbike Erdemir ST=Sébastien Tripod JR=Jennifer Russo KM=Katja Mater Image treatment by Deborah Robbiano
1 Nail art affects theory, for a.pass Not in the Mood, Brussels, with AG 2 Kombucha skin, first batch, at Fahrenheit 451 House, Catskill, with IK 3 Nail art affects theory leftovers growing inside kombucha skin, WIELS, Brussels 4 Nails and clay sculpture for ROT GARDEN, BUDA , Kortrijk 5 Nail art affects theory publication, WPZimmer, Antwerp, with AG 6 Dried corn cob infected with Huitlacoche (corn smut, latin: Ustilago maydis), WIELS, Brussels 7 Nail art affects theory, for a.pass Not in the Mood, Brussels, with AG 8 Pictures of LomaLab basketry workshop, Brussels 9 Midjourney AI bot interpretation of an image of a sculpture made of wax, straw and dried Pink Oyster mushrooms, for MOLD SPILLOVERS, Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, by DR