City SALTS: Houseplants On Tour
Collective performance by Sergio Rojas Chaves starting in the garden
3 Sep – 4 Sep 2022

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Collective performance in which participants are invited to take a houseplant or a plant provided by the artist on a 1-hour walk through the city. Throughout the performance, participants discuss and reflect on their relationship to the plant they are carrying and the other plants they see in the public space.

Sa, 3 September 2022, 14:00, starting point: City Salts, Hauptstrasse 12, Birsfelden. Destination: Kunsthaus Baselland@TransBona-Halle, Dreispitz
Su, 4 September 2022, 14 Uhr, starting point: Wettsteinplatz, Bücherkasten. Destination: «fleuri», at Kunstmuseum Basel

In Spring 2022, Sergio Rojas Chaves' performance «Houseplant Bonding» was part of How To Be Organic? – A Spring Gathering at Country SALTS: a series of knitted conversations and contributions circulating around the various meanings and imaginaries of the organic from lichens, bioremediation, and permaculture to astrophysics, volcanic landscapes, and the lives of houseplants.

Produced by Kunsttage Basel

In the fall of 2021, Rojas Chaves was part of the group show DAFNA MAIMON & ETHAN HAYES-CHUTE, SERGIO ROJAS CHAVES, KELLY TISSOT at Country SALTS.
In summer 2021, Rojas Chaves contributed the work "Houseplant Portraits" to the Country SALTS guest exhibition on the occasion of the Alexander Clavel Foundation Award to Samuel Leuenberger at Villa Wenkenhof in Riehen/BS.