Readings from a selection of fictional gardens
Harun Morrison
Wednesday, 27 May
11:00 - 18:00
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
Intrarea Primăverii 10, Siliștea Snagovului{
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The Cultivators of Life*https://ro.tranzit.org/en/project/0/2025-04-28/cultivators-of-life} programme continues this year with a new series of artist residencies, talks, and workshops. We are delighted to host Harun Morrison in a short residency from 20 May to 31 May.
Over the past few years, Harun has been building an evolving archive of fictional gardens in literature. Some of these descriptions have been recorded as audio readings by friends. For this event, participants are invited to select and read a passage describing a fictional garden of their own choosing. Readings may be presented in any language, though Romanian fictional literature is especially encouraged.
During his time in Bucharest and at the Station, Harun will continue developing field notes and writing in dialogue with the Station’s social and material context. His reflections emerge from observing working processes and the infrastructures that sustain events, gatherings, and forms of coexistence between humans and more-than-human life, engaging concepts such as unfinishedness, maintenance, and interminable work.
Short bio
Harun Morrison is an artist and writer based in London and a former associate artist with Greenpeace UK on the project Bad Taste. Last year Harun showed work in the Brent Biennial 2025: Bones, stones and calling the four elements. He recently presented work in the group show, SOIL: The World at Our Feet. In 2024, he was in the two person show, DONO, at Somerset House Studios project space G31 alongside Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom and the solo show Conjunction at VOLT, Devonshire Collective in Eastbourne . His forthcoming novel, The Escape Artist will be published by Book Works. Recent group exhibitions include Sonic Acts 2024: The Spell of The Sensuous, Amsterdam, Chronic Hunger / Chronic Desire in Timișoara, Romania, BALATORIUM Disturbed Waters, in Veszprém, Hungary as part of the European Capital of Culture 2023 programme and Bamako Biennial, 2020 in Mali. Harun is a Visiting Fellow at Goldsmiths University, London and part of the Art and Ecology Research Centre. He is also part of the faculties of the Dutch Art Institute, MA Art Praxis, Ruskin School of Fine Art, Oxford, Open School East and Conditions in Croydon, London. www.harunmorrison.net / @harunishere
The event is part of the program Cultivators of Life, a multianual project organized by tranzit.ro/Bucharest Association and co-financed by The Administration of the National Cultural Fund. The program continues and supports the activities started in 2021 at the Experimental Research Station for Research on Art and Life in Siliștea Snagovului, focused on conserving biodiversity, testing ecological prototypes, and rethinking the relationship between soils, materials and artistic production. Curated by Adelina Luft, the program proposes the study and formulation of a new lexicon and practices related to an emerging relationship between indigenous/ancestral knowledge, land cultivation and natural sciences, realized through a series of artistic residencies, open events in gardens around Bucharest, applied workshops, conferences with indigenous thinkers and a final group in 2026 at MODEM – Center for Modern and Contemporary Art in Debrecen.
The program does not necessarily represent the official position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN shall not be held liable for the program's content or any use to which the program outcome might be put. These are the sole responsibility of the beneficiary of the funding.
