BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:28355@offbeat.amsterdam SUMMARY:I Hate the Plant\, the Plant Hates Me and I Want to Become Her DTSTAMP:20261009T040544Z DTSTART:20261107T180000Z DTEND:20261108T010000Z DESCRIPTION:Imagine a greenhouse where strawberries grow on human blood.\n\ nDrawing from her experience of living with rare and severe allergies\, Ma rgherita\nSoldati stages an impossible relationship between an allergic bo dy and the plant\nit desires but cannot eat. In an attempt to bring the pl ant closer to her own\nbody\, she began growing strawberry plants using he r blood as part of their\nnourishment\, asking whether changing the condit ions in which they grow could\nchange their relationship to her.\n\nPerfor mance times 20:30 - 21:00 22:30 - 23:00\n\nThe work expands this experimen t into a fictional greenhouse\, where the desire\nto control the condition s of an allergic body meets the increasing control\ninvolved in contempora ry food production: regulating light\, temperature\, water\nand nutrients to keep plants growing and productive. Blood\, agriculture and\ndesire bec ome intertwined\, blurring the boundaries between cultivating a plant\,\nt ransforming it and becoming entangled with it.\n\nBy feeding the strawberr y plants with her own blood\, Soldati pushes these logics\nto an extreme\, asking whose bodies\, resources and environments are exhausted in\nthe pu rsuit of productivity and abundance.\n\nEnlarge\n[https://www.mediamatic.n et/image/2026/9/29/2026_i_hate_the_plant_the_plant_hates_me_and_i_want_to_ become_her_credit_anne.jpg%28%29%288B1AAEFEC13989F40817595F021C52B0%29.jpg ]\nhttps://www.mediamatic.net/en/page/393816/i-hate-the-plant-the-plant-ha tes-me-margherita-soldati-gmo-museum\n\nI Hate the Plant\, The Plant Hates Me\, Margherita Soldati\, GMO Museum Night 2026\,\nPhoto Credits Anne Lak ema -\n[https://www.mediamatic.net/image/2026/9/29/2026_i_hate_the_plant_t he_plant_hates_me_and_i_want_to_become_her_credit_anne.jpg%28%29%288B1AAEF EC13989F40817595F021C52B0%29.jpg]\n\n\n\nEnlarge\n[https://www.mediamatic. net/image/2026/9/29/2026_whatever_it_takes_to_keep_her_sweet_emaf_no_credi t.png%28%29%284EFA219FA1F454A53BBCA5312C4CA6ED%29.jpg]\nhttps://www.mediam atic.net/en/page/393815/i-hate-the-plant-margherita-soldati-gmo-museum-nig ht-2026\n\nI Hate the Plant\, Margherita Soldati\, GMO Museum Night 2026 - \n[https://www.mediamatic.net/image/2026/9/29/2026_whatever_it_takes_to_ke ep_her_sweet_emaf_no_credit.png%28%29%284EFA219FA1F454A53BBCA5312C4CA6ED%2 9.jpg]\n\n\n\n\nMARGHERITA SOLDATI\n[https://www.mediamatic.net/en/page/39 3689/margherita-soldati]\n\nHer practice operates at the intersection of e cology\, immunology\, and political\ninfrastructures of care\, treating th e body as a research apparatus where\nenvironmental\, agricultural\, and m edical systems intersect. She explores how\nregimes of optimization\, ster ility\, and control shape organic life and human\nsubjectivity. Working ac ross greenhouses\, laboratories\, and galleries\, she\nengages materials l ike plants\, soil\, and blood as active participants—sustaining\ntensions between care and control\, intimacy and antagonism. Enlarge\n[https://www. mediamatic.net/image/2026/9/1/margherita_soldati_portrait.png%28%29%28A945 43F5ED44FD0B4398E6984F037F31%29.jpg]\nhttps://www.mediamatic.net/en/page/3 93703/margherita-soldati---portrait\n\nMargherita Soldati - Portrait -\n[h ttps://www.mediamatic.net/image/2026/9/1/margherita_soldati_portrait.png%2 8%29%28A94543F5ED44FD0B4398E6984F037F31%29.jpg]\n\n\nINFORMATION\n\nPerfor mance + Installation 7 November Performance times: 20:30 - 21:00 22:30 -\n 23:00 Mediamatic & TestTafel Restaurant\n\nPart of GMO: How far are you wi lling to mutate?\n[https://www.mediamatic.net/en/gmo-how-far-are-you-willi ng-to-mutate] during\nMuseumnight Amsterdam 2026.\n\nFor questions program @mediamatic.nl [workshop@mediamatic.nl]. URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/i-hate-the-plant-the-plant-hates-me-and -i-want-to-become-her GEO:52.3765012;4.9132763 LOCATION:Mediamatic - Dijksgracht 6\, 1019 BS Amsterdam STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:amsterdam-centrum,eastern docklands,ecology,food,performance,pla nts X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Imagine a greenhouse where strawberries grow on human blood.

Drawing from her experience of livi ng with rare and severe allergies, Margherita Soldati stages an impossible relationship between an allergic body and the plant it desires but cannot eat. In an attempt to bring the plant closer to her own body, she began g rowing strawberry plants using her blood as part of their nourishment, ask ing whether changing the conditions in which they grow could change their relationship to her.

Performance times 20:30 - 21:00 22:30 - 23:0 0

The work expands this experiment into a fictional greenhouse, where t he desire to control the conditions of an allergic body meets the increasi ng control involved in contemporary food production: regulating light, tem perature, water and nutrients to keep plants growing and productive. Blood , agriculture and desire become intertwined, blurring the boundaries betwe en cultivating a plant, transforming it and becoming entangled with it.

By feeding the strawberry plants with her own blood, Soldati pushes t hese logics to an extreme, asking whose bodies, resources and environments are exhausted in the pursuit of productivity and abundance.

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I Hate the P lant, The Plant Hates Me, Margherita Soldati, GMO Museum Night 2026, Photo Credits Anne Lakema -

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I Hate the Pl ant, Margherita Soldati, GMO Museum Night 2026 -

Margherita Soldati

Her practice operates at the inter section of ecology, immunology, and political infrastructures of care, tre ating the body as a research apparatus where environmental, agricultural, and medical systems intersect. She explores how regimes of optimization, sterility, and control shape organic life and human subjectivity. Working across greenhouses, laboratories, and galleries, she engages materials lik e plants, soil, and blood as active participants—sustaining tensions betwe en care and control, intimacy and antagonism. Enlarge

Margherita Soldati - Portra it -

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Performance + Installation 7 Novemb er Performance times: 20:30 - 21:00 22:30 - 23:00 Mediamatic & ; TestTafel Restaurant

Part of GMO: Ho w far are you willing to mutate? during Museumnight Amsterdam 202 6.

For questions program@me diamatic.nl.

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