hey, I felt right at home in the the geodesic dome that the Serpentine erected just for the Garden Marathon, and interviewing Denise Withers, resident gardener at the London Edible Estate

…(part of a series of annual talks, performances, and interviews masterminded by the indefatigable Hans Ulrich Obrist at the Serpentine Gallery in London’s Kensington Gardens which has previously taken on maps, interviews, poetry, experiments, and manifestos – for which I contributed a London: A Manifesto from your Animals  in 2008 – with today’s line-up highlights including Elizabeth Diller, Gianfranco Baruchello, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, Wolfgang Tillmans, Cerith Wyn Evans, FIELDCLUB, Alice Rawsthorn, Something & Son, and muf architecture) – began with the reading of a short autobiographical garden story (read the text here), followed by an interview with Denise Withers – the Brookwood Estate resident, who has been the resident gardening force at Edible Estate #4: London (at the corner of Lancaster and Weber in the Southwark neighborhood south of the Thames) for the past 4 and a half years since it was planted.