FEEDING THE CARNIVOROUS PLANTS
Tropism provided the Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam during the 2012 museumnight a 'Feeding the carnivorous plants' act & film.
The performance made the eight a clock news at the NOS national public broadcaster.
Created and performed by Robin Noorda, Bethany de Forest, Paul Godschalk, Alex van Zanten, Menno Schrap, Margot van de Stolpe, Susanne Ohmann and Alfred Marseille.
Extensive press coverage lured the public to the Amsterdam Museum Night in the Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam. Announced was that the Hortus Botanicus had a very special treat. They would present a unique novelty. A living fossil was discovered and exclusivly presented that night: the Sarracenia burpus gigantus (the Giant Burping Pitcher Plant). One could buy food at the entrance for the hungry and loudly burping Giant Pitcher plants. The packages of slaughterhouse waste were very popular and sold out quickly. A blinded and barricaded glasshouse revealed a shadow play of roaring carnivorous plants catching on the fly all kinds of airborne animals.
At set times the feeding act was performed. A moderator announced that due to some accidents where visitors lost some limbs, the feeding of the Giant Pitcher plants will no longer be possible by the visitors and will be performed by a professional. Everyone was requested to hand in the feeding packages to professor Godschalk who cunningly and savely would perform the dangerous feeding of the ferocious carnivores. All would be filmed live and presented on the big screens. So the professor arrived with a wheelbarrow and cameraman and everyone handed over the packages and off they went to the hungry plants. All captured live on the big screens.
The live camera feed then seamlessly dissolved into a absurdist film showing professor Godschalk feeding the really giant Pitcher Plants in a miniature set of the actual Palm glasshouse of the Hortus Botanicus.
The Flora Sonora performance was an other performance also part of the Hortus Botanicus Museum night.
Tropism provided the Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam during the 2012 museumnight a 'Feeding the carnivorous plants' act & film.
The performance made the eight a clock news at the NOS national public broadcaster.
Created and performed by Robin Noorda, Bethany de Forest, Paul Godschalk, Alex van Zanten, Menno Schrap, Margot van de Stolpe, Susanne Ohmann and Alfred Marseille.
Extensive press coverage lured the public to the Amsterdam Museum Night in the Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam. Announced was that the Hortus Botanicus had a very special treat. They would present a unique novelty. A living fossil was discovered and exclusivly presented that night: the Sarracenia burpus gigantus (the Giant Burping Pitcher Plant). One could buy food at the entrance for the hungry and loudly burping Giant Pitcher plants. The packages of slaughterhouse waste were very popular and sold out quickly. A blinded and barricaded glasshouse revealed a shadow play of roaring carnivorous plants catching on the fly all kinds of airborne animals.
At set times the feeding act was performed. A moderator announced that due to some accidents where visitors lost some limbs, the feeding of the Giant Pitcher plants will no longer be possible by the visitors and will be performed by a professional. Everyone was requested to hand in the feeding packages to professor Godschalk who cunningly and savely would perform the dangerous feeding of the ferocious carnivores. All would be filmed live and presented on the big screens. So the professor arrived with a wheelbarrow and cameraman and everyone handed over the packages and off they went to the hungry plants. All captured live on the big screens.
The live camera feed then seamlessly dissolved into a absurdist film showing professor Godschalk feeding the really giant Pitcher Plants in a miniature set of the actual Palm glasshouse of the Hortus Botanicus.
The Flora Sonora performance was an other performance also part of the Hortus Botanicus Museum night.
