“Part tutorial, part ritual, this is a spell to welcome a little chaos. To find strength in disorder. To purge the unwanted. Perform this spell on a waning moon. A time to put something to rest. Welcome wildness this season.”

Wingshan guides you through a meditative seasonal ritual to create wild flower seed balls infused with the intention of releasing your troubles. Plant by throwing them into any space where things can grow – your garden, unloved roadsides, alleyways, urban tree pits and so on. Free seed ball materials pack were sent out to participants.

Filled with clips from home movies, old paintings of European markets, and gardens in bloom, Picnic conjures complicated feelings of personal responsibility with messy colonial histories of food and its ‘ordered’ dominion over nature.

Access to zine here.

This project was part of Mansions of the Future’s Lincoln Live programme March – August 2020 (Season extended in response to COVID-19). Departing from Lincoln’s rich entertainment and theatre history, Lincoln Live features new commissions which exist at the intersections of disciplinary boundaries. The season is a celebration of performative ventures that stand resolutely marginal to both the history of English theatre and the often exclusive, disciplinary rhetoric of contemporary performance art.