Anna Ridler

Displayed on the BIX façade is the latest iteration Anna Ridler’s ongoing Circadian Bloom project, translating the work into a text-based version for night-time. The work draws inspiration from Carl Linnaeus’s eighteenth-century concept of a “flower clock” – a garden designed to mark the hours through the natural opening and closing rhythms of plants. Here at the façade of Kunsthaus Graz, handwritten annotations move across the screen, noting that most flowers are closed and that only the night-blooming cactuses are in flower. It Is Night, It Is Dark, Most Of The Flowers Are Asleep , it says, reinforcing the work’s connection to observation and record-keeping. The work thus exists simultaneously at a multitude of a scales and in a multitude of ways: on the outside of Kunsthaus Graz, as a screen-based installation in the foyer as part of the 30% Dandelion exhibition and as a Circadian Bloom app. The app features a newly commissioned generative score by composer William Marsey.