172 Classon Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205 USA172 Classon Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205 USA[1] Sheltered Gardens.[2] Aphrodite Psarra.[3] Sasha Velour.[4] Eva Papamargariti.[5] VASCOSS (Vassilis Noulas & Kostas Tzimoulis).[6] Kathleen Hanna & the Julie Ruin.[7] Evan Ifekoya.Participating artists: Margarita Athanasiou, Eleni Bagaki, Michel Delsol, Kathleen Hanna & the Julie Ruin, Evan Ifekoya, Irini Karayannopoulou, Lito Kattou, Chris Kraus, Linder, Polonca Lovshin, Campus Novel, Selina Nwulu, Leda Papaconstantinou, Eva Papamargariti, Aphrodite Psarra , Gloria Steinem, Eva Stefani, Maria Varela, Vasco (Vassilis Noulas & Kostas Tzimoulis), Marina Velisioti, Sasha VelourSheltered Gardens is a hybrid, visual arts exhibition featuring more than 35 international artists, writers and performers.Inspired by HD's poem Sheltered Garden (1916) and taking place in J. & AN Diomedes Botanic Garden, PCAI's new multimedia program includes numerous new commissions and performances.Opening on September 22, Sheltered Gardens will unfold through an online, digital exhibition available at pcai.gr, a limited edition publication, a contemporary art group exhibition and a series of performances at the Diomedes Botanic Garden in Athens.From Sasha Velour's drag performances to Linder's punk photomontage and from Chris Kraus' Super 8 films to Leda Papaconstantinou's poetic narratives, the exhibition sets as a virtual tour among climbing plants, bamboo clusters and she-shed greenhouses.It acquires a physical existence turning into performances, archives and traces of ecosystems and arguments rising within contemporary female gardens.Sheltered Garden (1916), by avant-garde imaginist American HD (Hilda Doolittle), constitutes the exhibition's starting point.A poem on HD's relationship with nature depicting her quests as an early 20th century queer writer.Kinship with mother Earth, as a mythological aspect of cosmogony, the garden as an archetype and gender inequalities have been discussed in many significant works by female writers.Alice Walker's book In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens (1983) expresses the author's own quest on ancestral past, art, and identity as an African-American woman during a challenging period for human rights in the United States.In 1919, Virginia Woolf dedicated one of her first works to Kew Royal Botanic Gardens of London, while her personal reflections on issues such as spatiality and gender were vigorously captured in her renowned essay A Room of One's Own (1929).The Sheltered Gardens exhibition is an original hybrid environment referencing Donna Haraway's (Cyborg Manifesto, 1985) rejection of rigid identity boundaries and spatial-physical restraints and proposing alternative, creative and environmental quests in times of turbulence.Public program From September 22 to 24, a series of live performances, readings and workshops will take place in the Diomedes Botanic Garden.Admission is free and can be booked in advance online at Diomedes-Bg.gr.Find out more about the public program at pcai.gr.Performers: Theodoros Chiotis, Phoebe Giannisi, Ermira Goro, I Broke the Vase, Dimitra Ioannou, Chrysanthi Koumianaki, Leda Papaconstantinou, Aris Papadopoulos & Martha Pasakopoulou, Vassilis Noulas & Kostas Tzimoulis Iria Vrettou.Curated by: Vassilis Noulas & Kostas TzimoulisOpening: Thursday, September 22, 4–7pm Physical exhibition: September 22–October 2, 2022, 4pm-7pm Digital exhibition: September 22–November 30, 2022 via pcai.gr Performances in the Garden: September 22-24, 2022 find out more at pcai.grFree admission, by timed tickets booked in advance via Diomedes-Bg.grFrom September 22 to 24, there will be shuttle transportation from Aghia Marina Metro Station to Diomedes Botanic Garden at 3:50, 4:10, 4:30, 4:50, 5:10, 5:30, 5:50, :10, and 6:30pm.The last departure from DBG to the Metro is at 8pm.The exhibition is organized with the support of the British Council and Flunet Productions.Spread the word and use the hashtags #shelteredgardens #pcai #diomedesbotanicgarden172 Classon Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205 USA172 Classon Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205 USAThank you for your RSVP.PCAI Polygreen Culture & Arts Initiative will be in touch.Thank you for your interest in e-flux.Check your inbox to confirm your subscription.Feel free to subscribe to additional content from the e-flux platform: