Between Autumn 2020 and Spring 2021, MADEYOULOOK undertook a remote residency with Primary, continuing their ongoing research into the powerful implications of Black urban gardening.  

Within a South African context, MADEYOULOOK has considered how personal gardens have featured in the lives of ordinary Black people, particularly under the difficult circumstances of forced removals, migration, and the challenges of labour politics. During their residency, MADEYOULOOK interviewed gardeners, activists, artists and writers of colour in Britain and South Africa — including LION’s Josina Calliste — bringing these voices together in the Gardens of Others podcast series. 

Over three episodes, these podcasts explore the ways in which people’s relationships with plant life and the land, serve as a microcosm of not only the concerns of contemporary political life, but also of the ways in which we might learn to live together.