Through Konstfrämjandet Öland Kalmar, Kultivator invites Eva Bakkeslett to collaborate with newly arrived around baking as a common cultural activity, and bread as social sculpture. We look at grains and dough in the microscope, listens to the stomach and hear on the dough, ferment together and discover how to cooperate with bacteria. We use our hands and make bread sculptures and share our stories and traditions around bread and baking.
Eva Bakkeslett is an artist, filmmaker and kitchen table activist. Through a combination of films, lectures and social sculpture, she tells stories where timelessness, attention, ecology and collaboration are important elements. By discovering and regaining obsolete knowledge or forgotten meanings of words, concepts and cultures, her work brings our attention and awareness of the relationship between man, nature and culture as a living organism.
Bakkeslett holds an MA in Arts & Ecology from the Dartington College of Arts in England. She has shown her works, projects and films internationally, and has, among other things, curated “Gentle actions” in the Artists’ House in Oslo, and Kjerring Island Land Art Biennial. Eva now lives in Northern Norway.