ambrosia / salad

Site-responsive installations + sculpture throughout historic public gardens, opening with an evening of performance and participatory activations across the landscape. A new happening by SSH. 
OPENING NIGHT   |    Saturday, Aug 8th, 5-8pm
EXHIBITION   |    Aug 8 - Sept 19, daylight hours
HASKELL GARDENS   |    787 Shawmut Ave, N.B.
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What to Expect

An evolution of Salad Days (our inaugural 2025 exhibition), ambrosia/salad will emerge from the earth as a new life-form, stretching out of the greenhouses and towards the sun. We’re returning to the site with an expanded exhibition that extends into the surrounding landscape, meandering past rare trees, carved stone wells, spiral gardens, and pollinator meadows. Through the site-responsive works on display and self-guided participatory activities, visitors are invited to experience the gardens as both setting and collaborator, engaging more deeply with the artworks, the land, and one another.

Join us for opening night on Saturday, August 8th from 5-8pm to experience opening activations of performance, dance, wild clay-making and foodscape artistry.

❋ Opening night activations

Banana Split | An edible landscape, meant to be interacted with like a childhood game. Cordero creates multisensory narratives through food and human interaction around the table. Her recent project Queremos Pastel creates edible mini gardens through artist collaborations as well as cakes for all celebrations of life and death.  — Ananda Cordero (Mexico City, MX)

Bug Tag / How to Build a Meadow | An interactive sound installation invites visitors to participate in the creation of a collective sound meadow, by an artist working at the intersection of dance and radio.  — Elizabeth Flood (Chicago, IL)

Dead Bird Dinner Pt I: Wild Claymaking | A participatory activation inspired by Allen Haskell’s beloved peacocks, also bringing attention to birdstrike mortality. The clay pieces will be pit fired the following weekend on the land.  See Dead Bird Dinner Pt II below. — Michael Medeiros (New Bedford, MA)

I’m The Love Of Your Life / Honey | A dance by an artist whose work is grounded in the resiliency practice of falling in love/love/loving as a way of world-building and disarming oppressive systems collectively. — Mikah Simone Akerib (Philadelphia, PA)

Gloaming | Sculptural work inspired by and of the land created by Eva Goodman will be worn/performed by Willa Van Nostrand on opening night. Lasting elements remain on site throughout the exhibition. — Willa Van Nostrand (Tiverton, RI) + Eva Goodman (Providence, RI)


❋ Installation artists

Adrian Almquist (MA)

Carl Simmons (MA)

Ena Kantardžić (MA)

Jason Fiering (MA)

Jillian McEvoy (MA)

Rachel Rushing (MA)

Renée Greenlee (VT)

Saskia Globig (CT)

Siri Burt (NY)

Willa Van Nostrand (RI)

Isabel Mattia (RI)

Eva Goodman (RI)