On Planting a Native was first performed in 1976 at the Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide, Australia. The original performance was a response to the removal of a Tony Coleling sculpture from the Adelaide Arts Festival.
In this 2014 re-performance Jim Allen uses a chainsaw to dismember a native tree placed in a Terracotta pot. Allen reassembles the tree, taping up the stem, branches and leaves to the white wall of the gallery.
On Planting a Native (2014)
Other works by Jim Allen
Jim Allen
Uncertain Propositions (2011)
Jim Allen speaks a series of cut up phrases extracted from early European texts.
Jim Allen
Hanging by a thread (2000)
The making of a sculpture and its documentation exist simultaneously.