%0 Journal Article
%T Gardens – Monuments of the Anthropocene
%A Salwa, Mateusz
%J Arts & Cultural Studies Review
%V 2022
%R 10.4467/20843860PK.22.018.16315
%N Issue 2 (52) Bio-aktywne rumowisko historii cz. I
%P 253-272
%K monument, paradise, Anthropocene, art, garden
%@ 1895-975X
%D 2022
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przeglad-kulturoznawczy/article/ogrody-pomniki-antropocenu
%X 
	The aim of the article is to analyse the metaphor of the garden as a metaphor which allows one to give an account of the conditions of the Earth subject to human actions and –more importantly –to sketch a utopian project of going beyond the Anthropocene. A new understanding of the garden modifies the traditional view of it as a paradise, where a harmony between humans and nature reigns. Today, gardens are often approached as places of cooperation, negotiation as well as of tensions and conflicts among human beings and other-than-human beings, that is as places where numerous relationships create a human and other-than-human community. The analyses will start with an interpretation of Alan Sonfist’s Time Landscape (1978–), a public park in Manhattan that was conceived of as a reconstruction of the local precolonial landscape and at the same time as its monument. Sonfist’s work is a good illustration of how the metaphor of the garden is nowadays interpreted and –I contend –it may be also seen as a monument of the Anthropocene.