This talk between the artists and the researcher poet gives insights into themes and methods which inform the exhibition, such as softness as political and artistic strategy, queer ecologies and imagination as a method of worlding. We will drink our favourite teas and visit the beings in the Soft Gardens. In exchange for songs, snacks, poems and gossips they offer what they know about being gardens – in aquatic, amphibian, terrestrial and extraterrestrial worlds.

With their cosmogenic feelers, their crawling through different times and spaces, their resilience and mutability they inspire modes of staying soft which might be helpful, even healing in the tectonics of the present.