COMPOST GROUP
discourse (reading groups, exhibition visits), workshops & compost care
dates always Friday 2–5 pm
location yard of Angewandte at Oskar Kokoschka Platz 2, studio at Heiligenkreuzerhof and more

The compost group is like the central artistic subject of the Garten für Alle. We take care of our compost in the physical, organic but also metaphorical sense. The compost heap in the courtyard of the Angewandte at Oskar Kokoschka Platz, built in the fall, is the first sculptural expression in this process. Inspired by Senegalese artist Issa Samb, we will playfully formulate, build, and assemble our ideas as objects during the summer semester.

Composting is a ritual of gathering, acknowledging, and transforming, and becomes a metaphor for all life processes.
By learning to see and recognize nutrient cycles, and through practices of caring, careful nurturing, and intentional togetherness, we give meaning and dignity to everyday waste. Soil organisms and oxygen are not the only things that help create nourishing humus. Our encounters, conversations, and friendships advance in shared learning and work what we later scatter in the social terrains.
This group is about ways of acting, thinking, and being, and allowing questions to emerge that generate new questions. We include reflecting colonial history in our thinking about the garden as well as contemporary urbanity and attempts at community across diverse lifes. We bring together, mix and transform disparate forms of knowledge. Come compost with us!

We are humus, not homo, not anthropos; we are compost, not posthuman. (Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble)

Dates spring/summer 2023

Friday May 19, 2023, 2pm–5pm
compost group #20
COMPOST CARE, COMPOST OBJECTS, COMPOST SOUNDS
with Andrea Lumplecker, Brishty Alam
Location Yard of Angewandte, Oskar Kokoschka Platz 2

Friday May 26, 2023, 2–5pm
compost group #21
COMPOST CARE, COMPOST OBJECTS, COMPOST SOUNDS
with Andrea Lumplecker; Brishty Alam
Location Yard of Angewandte, Oskar Kokoschka Platz 2

Tuesday May 30,  2023, 4–7 pm
compost group #extra
COMPOST SOUNDS RECORDING WORKSHOP
with Paul Ebhart (DJ Ebhardy)
Location Studio at Heiligenkreuzerhof
(limited space, regsitration only!)

Friday June 2,  2023, 11am–2pm
compost group #22
COMPOST SOUNDS EDITING WORKSHOP
with Paul Ebhart (DJ Ebhardy)
Location Atelier at Heiligenkreuzerhof
(limited space, regsitration only!)

Friday June 16, 2023, 2–5pm
compost group #23
COMPOST CARE & COMPOST READING
with Andrea Lumplecker + Brishty Alam
Location Yard of Angewandte, Oskar Kokoschka Platz 2

Friday June 30, 2023, 2–5pm
compost group #24
COMPOST CARE & CONVERSATIONS
with Andrea Lumplecker, Brishty Alam
Location Yard OKP & Yard HKH

ARCHIVE SPRING/SUMMER 2023

Friday May 12, 2023, 2pm–5pm
compost group #19
COMPOST CARE, COMPOST OBJECTS, READING SESSION
with Andrea Lumplecker, Brishty Alam
Location Yard of Angewandte, Oskar Kokoschka Platz 2

Friday May 5, 2023, 2–5 pm
compost group # 18
COMPOST OBJCETS, COMPOST CARE
with Andrea Lumplecker
Location Hof der Angewandten am Oskar Kokoschka Platz 2

Friday April 28, 2023, 2–5 pm
compost group # 17
COMPOST ARTIST #3: KARRABING FILM COLLECTIVE
Exhibition visit at Secession
with Brishty Alam + Secession curator Bettina Spörr
Meeting point Secession

Friday April 21, 2023, 2–5 pm
compost group # 16
COMPOST READING+ WRITING
+ compost care
with Bristhy + Andrea
Location Hof der Angewandten am Oskar Kokoschka Platz 2

Friday March 31, 2023, 2–5 pm
compost group # 15
COMPOST ARTIST: ISSA SAMB
introduced by Brishty Alam
Details presentation, discussion + a small practical exercise
+ compost care group
with Brishty Alam + Andrea Lumplecker
Ort meeting point Studio at Heiligenkreuzerhof

Friday March 24, 2023, 2–5 pm
compost group # 15
compost reading #2: Maria Puig de la Bellacasa: Ecological struggles and the sciences of soil, and Vandana Shiva: Soil not Oil
praxis: compost heap enlargement, humus box, photographic high bed
with COMPOST CARE GROUP
Location Yard at Oskar Kokoschka Platz 2

Friday March 17, 2023, 2–4 pm
compost group # 14
COMPOST ARTIST #2: SANDRA MUCHINGA
Exhibition visit at Galerie Croy Nielsen
with Andrea Lumplecker
Meeting point Hof der Angewandten am Oskar Kokoschka Platz 2

Friday March 10, 2023, 2–5 pm
compost group # 13
compost reading #1: Eva von Redeker, Revolution für das Leben. Philosophie der neuen Protestformen – Einleitung
+ compost care, mapping & planning
with compost care group
Location Hof der Angewandte at Oskar Kokoschka Platz 2

Friday March 3, 2023, 2–5 pm
compost group # 12
compost artist #1: introducing Issa Samb (Conversation with Antje Majewski)
+ compost care, mapping & planning
+ planting of Artemisia annua
with compost care group
Location Hof der Angewandte at Oskar Kokoschka Platz 2

ARCHIVE FALL/WINTER 2022/23

Friday January 20, 2023, 3–5 pm
MIXED UP WITH OTHERS BEFORE WE EVEN BEGIN
exhibition visit at mumok, wien
compost group # 11
with Andrea Lumplecker
Location mumok

The exhibition mixed up with others before we even begin investigates models of thinking and working that reconcile different, sometimes contradictory entities within contemporary visual culture. Current artistic positions enter into a dialogue with selected works from the mumok collection and objects from the collections of the Natural History Museum Vienna to foreground the hybrid as an effective tenet, not only in artistic but also societal and political realms.
Sounds like composting!
mixed up with others before we even begin celebrates the historical-cultural processes of creolization as a mode of world-making that has always been there. It encompasses moments of encounter and friendly gathering as well as those of collision, too. The exhibition features works that open perspectives to postcolonial histories of diversity, to satirical transliteration, queer folklore, and collective feminist rituals, to the molecular borders of the human body and its entanglements with science and technology.
Artists: Leilah Babirye, Mariana Castillo Deball, Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkáčová, Nilbar Güreş, Nicolás Lamas, Slavs and Tatars

Friday January 13  2023, 3–5 pm
compost group # 10
books about gardening – a tour at the angewandte library
with a focus on garden-artists books
with Elisabeth Pinter
location Angewandte Library, Vordere Zollamtstraße 7, 1030 Wien (meeting point: Foyer of the library, DG)

Reading together is an important part of compost group.
Elisabeth Pinter gave us an introduction and a short tour through the library of the Angewandte, which is open to all. She then introduced us to selected garden artist books. And finally we were searching for relevant titles in the garden book section, browsing, and reading to each other.

Freitag 23. Dezember 2022, 15–17 Uhr
compost group #9
aus schafgarbe bier brauen (workshop teil II)
mit Salma Shaka
Ort Atelier im Heiligenkreuzerhof

Samstag 10. Dezember 2022, 14–18 Uhr
compost group #8
aus schafgarbe bier brauen (workshop teil I)
mit Salma Shaka
Ort Atelier im Heiligenkreuzerhof
Fee € 25 (für beide Teile des workshops) – Stipendien sind auf Anfrage möglich!

Freitag 25. November 2022, 14–16 Uhr
compost group #7
obstbäume fürs überwintern pflanzen
Ort KOMPOSTHÜGEL im Hof der Angewandten, Oskar Kokoschka Platz 2, 1010 Wien, Heiligenkreuzerhof

Fünf Obstbäume für die Stadt: Bevor wir bis zum Frühling einen endgültigen Standort für sie finden werden, pflanzen wir sie in gute Nachbarschaft direkt neben unseren Kompost.

Freitag 18. November 2022, 15–17 Uhr
compost group #6
lesen, denken + zusammen schreiben
+ vortrag Kristina Feldhammer über kompost als entwickler:in in der analogen fotografie
Ort Atelier im Heiligenkreuzerhof + rotlicht Festival im Semper Depot

Freitag 11. November 2022, 14–15 Uhr
compost group #5
compost care + obstbäume betreuen
Ort KOMPOSTHÜGEL im Hof der Angewandten, Oskar Kokoschka Platz 2

Freitag 4. November 2022, 15–17 Uhr
compost group #4
ausstellungsbesuch TAMPAN TULIPS by Jennifer Tee, Secession
+ anschließend compost care (Kompostmiete hinter der Secession)
Ort Secession, Friedrichstraße 12, 1010 Wien

Freitag 28. Oktober 2022, 15–17 Uhr
compost group #3
re-building the compost heap
Ort KOMPOSTHÜGEL im Hof der Angewandten, Oskar Kokoschka Platz 2

Freitag 21. Oktober 2022, 15–17 Uhr
compost group #2
reading session
Ort beim KOMPOSTHÜGEL im Hof der Angewandten, OKP

Mit Texten aus: Donna Haraway, Staying with the trouble; Ursula K. Le Guin, The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction; Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass; T.J. Demos, Against the Anthropocene; Bruno Latour, Facing Gaia; Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the end of the world u.m.

Freitag 7. Oktober 2022, 15 Uhr
compost group #1
gemeinsames errichten der komposthügels
Ort Hof im Hauptgebäude der Angewandten, Oskar Kokoschka Platz 2, 1010