Anne Diestelkamp
cultural programmer, artistic researcher/ editor and translator
Collective Reading, Talks and Workshops
Zone2Source, Shadow Garden, Amstelpark
Amsterdam
2026
On the night before the full moon, we gathered in the Shadow Garden at Amstelpark cared for and hosted by artist collective the Onkruidenier for a program dedicated to nocturnal ecologies. What happens in the garden after dark? How does the moon influence the soil and the life it sustains?
The evening began with a collective reading. As the sun was setting, we read texts by Anaïs Tondeur, Germain Meulemans, and Beatrice Zerbato that explored the complex relationships between soil and atmosphere, darkness and the underground. The reading was followed by a a food intervention by Chen Zou, who engaged participants in her artistic research on darkness and the invisible underground. As night fell, Jonmar van Vlijmen (de Onkruidenier) and I invited participants into a discussion about the garden at night and shared our explorations on nocturnal gardening. The conversation gradually transitioned into a hands-on workshop on night pollination. Together, we developped a map of night-blooming plants and sources of nectar for moths and other nocturnal pollinators.