Cell Project Space invited Yoke and Zoom & N55 to work on a live project from which stemmed an exhibition that ran in the project space for 5 weeks. The purpose of the exhibition was to grow three and four leaf clovers in the gallery, enabling the public to find and pick a lucky clover.
To help produce a large and consistent yield of four-leaf clovers Yoke and Zoom first grew the clovers in a warm geodesic greenhouse environment and then transplanted the clovers into a system designed specifically for the project by Danish / Norwegian Artist Group N55.
The four leaf clover cloning project is an ongoing Yoke + Zoom art work.
Danish / Norwegian artist group N55 were asked by Yoke + Zoom to produce a water feeding growing system for the clovers to grow in. The CLOVERFIELD is equipped with multifunctional units that provide light, water, sound, and space for clovers and people. The system also provides a place to archive your experiences of looking for four leaf clovers, a general archive of four leaf clover information and an honesty box distribution of four leaf clover clone multiples. Yoke and Zoom have collaborated informally with N55 before, in 2001 we donated N55 a box of 1000 four leaf clovers to be distributed from their Spaceframe in Copenhagen Harbour.
Thanks to: Solardome for information on the reconstruction of a geodesic greenhouse. Terry Michaelson Yeates from the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research for advice on growing clover and plant gene information.Roy Vickery from the Natural history Museum for the use of his four leaf clover archive.
CLOVERFIELD was funded by Arts Council England. Update: since this project we have still been finding and distributing for leaf clovers, most recently with house of fairytales at Zoo Art Fair, 2008,London, and at Tate Modern, Long Weekend. May 2009.
On Friday 5th June 2009, we found a four leaf clover growing at the Giardini, Venice biennale
