What do they want? What do they mean?
We cannot understand each other fully
We can never share everything.
But we can share time.
(Daniel Slåttnes)

Welcome to the Jungle offers a plant-based listening program, by artists from Australia and Scandinavia from backgrounds including acoustic ecology, installation/visual art, performance and experimental music. Listeners are embedded in purpose-built mini greenhouses as they listen to sounds made by plants, sounds made with plants, and sounds made with plants' listening pleasure in mind. For more on our thoughts on plant consciousness, hearing and voicing plants, and vegetal thinking-speaking-listening, you can read the curatorial essay here.

Curated by Danni Zuvela and Karolin Tampere

MUSIC BY PLANTS

Leah Barclay (AU) Stratification
Margrethe Pettersen (NO) Den levende erfaring
Makiko Yamamoto (AU) Banana a-part; [...]; Onion; In conjunction
Plants and Animalia (Felicity Mangan and Christina Ertl-Shirley) (AU/DE) Live at Errant Sound
Kalle Hamm and Lauri Ainala (FI) Peruna/Rhubarb
Kalle Hamm and Dzamil Kamanger (NO) Garden of invasive alien species
Daniel Slåttnes (NO) Stueplanta feat. DJ Printa / The houseplant feat. DJ Printa

MUSIC FOR PLANTS

Libby Harward (AU) Minyang nyinda yarinya? Minyang nyinda yagay ba? / What are you saying? What are you doing?
Margrethe Pettersen (NO) Empetrum nigrum
Laurie Anderson (US) Love lives of plants
Nathan Gray (AU) The Station
Monica Winther (NO) Playlist for plants; Recording from exhibition lost in paradise
Daniel Slåttnes (NO) Å lære å kjenne en plante / To learn to know a plant

Plants: Adiantum; Alium cepa; Artemisia vulgaris; Avicennia marina; Ceiba pentandra; Chlorophytum Comosum; Clivia; Crassula ovata; Empetrum Nigrum; Fomes fomentarius; Heracleum persicum; Hierochloe odorata; Impatiens glandulifera; Lagarostrobos franklinii; Musa; Notocacteae; Philodendron; Prunus laurocerasus; Rheum rhabarbarum; Rhizophora mangle; Rosa rugosa