WHAT THE GARDEN BELONGS TO

Growing Home Community Gardens. Photo by Jake Nussbaum

This composition uses recordings made in the ground, water, and air to challenge familiar categories like urban, natural, infrastructural, human and nonhuman, and to prod at our understandings of belonging, place, and nature in the context of the city.

What the Garden Belongs To is a composition of field recordings made at the Growing Home Community Gardens in Philadelphia, PA. The community gardens were started in 2010 and are primarily managed and maintained by Southeast Asian migrants— Nepali, Bhutanese, Burmese Chin, Karen Burmese, and Kachin— who have migrated to South Philadelphia over the past 20 years, many under refugee status. This composition uses recordings made in the ground, water, and air to challenge familiar categories like urban, natural, infrastructural, human and nonhuman, and to prod at our understandings of belonging, place, and nature in the context of the city.

CREATOR:
Jake Nussbaum

AFFILIATION
PhD Candidate in Anthropology University of Pennsylvania

PRACTICE
Jake Nussbaum is a multidisciplinary artist and musician, and PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. He researches creative practices that use improvisation like sculpture, dance, music, and ceremony, and how those practices appear in everyday political life. He is affiliated with the Center for Experimental Ethnography, and a member of the band 7 Count.

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