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Sur le Herbe (homage a Dominico and Vincenzo Mancini)

• 0°0°°
• A Brief History of Colonialism
• About a Village
• Almost There
• Along the Coast
• Alves / Durham / Berlin
• An Accounting
• Amatlan
• Angelo Kretã
• Announcement of Attempts to Guarantee the Future Existence of Taiwan
• A Possible Reversal of Missed Opportunities / Uma possível reversão de oportunidades perdidas
• A Question of Aesthetics and Colonization
• ‘As a lexicographer, I am always aware that words are the daughters of earth, but objects are the sons of heaven.’ Samuel Johnson
• Axolotl Poster
• Back to the Water
• Barra / Barre
• B.C.M.O.
• Beyond the Painting
• Borderline
• Bougainvillea
• Brazilian Information Center
• Bruce Lee in the Land of Balzac
• Bruno and The Burning Bush
• Changing of the Guard
• Chico Mendes, Los Anti-Heroes Y La Ley De Gravedad
• Conselho de Seres / The Council of Beings
• Cowboys
• Decolonizing Brazil / Descolonizando o Brasil
• Decolonizing Botany / Jevy Jejapo-pyra Temití-tyre
• Destroy Miramar Resort
• Dicionário Krenak–Português / Português–Krenak
• Dicionário Krenak–Português / Português–Krenak (Special Edition)
• Diothio Dhep
• Direct and Circumstantial. Relevant Evidences in Naples, Butia, Kassel and Ubatuba
• Ehrenbürgerin (Honorary Citizen)
• Eu e os Matarazzos (Me and the Matarazzos)
• Fair Trade Head
• Frozen Ground (the film’s musical score as interpreted for deaf people)
• Garrison Creek
• Gathering of Dismembered Knowledges & Curing Dismembered Knowledges
• Sonance Saturated Stone
• Green Party São Paulo (Partido Verde), Program
• Gris
• Grunewald
• Hail Mary
• I am resigning as moderator…
• Ici
• Il Sole
• Invisible Shadows: Teçâ (Eye), Apigçâ (Ear), Jurû (Mouth)
• Iracema (de Questembert)
• Jimmie as a Flower
• Killing Floor
• Light Intensity Map. Standing on Olympiaberg Facing East/Southeast Munich
• Machine Désirante [Desiring Machine]
• Metaplasmos
• Minus One Dimension: Zinneke Reflections
• Mismisidade del Mismo o Viviendo con Diez Dolares al Mes (The Sameness of the Same or Living on Ten Dollars a Month)
• Monumento aos Bandeirantes
• Museum of European Normality
• Nevermore/Evermore
• Non sono d’accordo / I Don’t Agree
• No soy su madre (I Am Not Your Mother)
• Nowhere
• OIKOVYTERI ITEKO'A MÔINGUEVYA (Decolonisation continues)
• Objective Channel Selection
• Oculesics
• On Remembering for a Future
• On the Importance of Words, a Sacred Mountain (Stolen) and the Ethics of Nations
• Orée
• Part One
• Pedro de las Pedras
• Phantom Pain
• Pira he
• Post-Eldorado Amazonas
• Que Flui
• Recipes for Survival (1983)
• Refuge of Beings at Tafawa Balewa Square
• Rio Doce: Sweet No More
• Rose Marble Table
• Seeds of Change
• Seeds of Change: A Ballast Flora Garden (Utrecht)
• Seeds of Change: A Floating Ballast Seed Garden (Bristol)
• Seeds of Change: A Garden of Ballast Flora (Leuven)
• Seeds of Change: Marseille
• Seeds of Change: New York - A Botany of Colonization
• Seeds of Change: A Ballast Flora Garden (New York)
• Shaushka & Inanna
• Silk, Bricks and the Moabit Prison
• Skjervoy
• Son del Pueblo / Of the People
• Spirit Line
• Statement written for the United Nations Commission on Human Rights - 35th Session
• Still Here…
• Sur le Herbe (homage a Dominico and Vincenzo Mancini)
• Tchám Krai Kytõm Pandã Grét (Male Display Among European Populations)
• The Artist as Bandeirante
• The Contract… (It is unfortunate that we feel ourselves in need of contracts to carry on our work as artists)
• The Flood
• The One That Got Away
• The Rains
• The Return of a Lake
• The Ways They Make War With Worlds
• Thieves and Murderers in Naples: A Brief History on Families, Colonization, Immense Wealth, Land Theft, Art and the Valle de Xico Community Museum in Mexico
• This is not an Apricot
• Through the Fields and into the Woods
• Time, Trade and Surplus Value
• To See the Forest Standing
• Tromsø’s Academy of Contemporary Art workshop on the 30th Anniversary of the Alta Case
• Um Vazio Pleno / A Full Void
• Una proposta di sincretismo (questa volta senza genocidio) / A Proposal for Syncretism (this time without genocide)
• Uncle A.
• Unrejected Wild Flora
• Urban Rituals
• Utopia: A Photo Text
• Venxen ke ve (In Guarani it means, "Already Made”)
• Virginia Veracruz / Veracruz Virginia
• Wake for Berlin
• Wake: Flight of Birds and People / Seed Catcher
• Wake in Guangzhou: The History of the Earth
• Wake: Reintroducing the Obliterated Flora of the Spree Riverbank
• What is the Color of a German Rose?
• "When they come, flee“, said my Grandmother to my Mother. "When they come, flee“, said Mother to Me.
• Why here?
• Windowlight
• Tupã-Y Guaraní (Marçal de Souza)
• A Casa da Maria (Maria’s House)
• You Will Go Away One Day But I Will Not

Sur le Herbe (homage a Dominico and Vincenzo Mancini), 2011

postcard made for the Garden Marathon, Serpentine Gallery London 2011 (organised by Hans-Ulrich Obrist)

Seeds from the town of Picinisco in Italy are included in this give away postcard in homage to immigrant workers in London.