Kultivating M
Kultivating m<Other tongues” Kultivating m<Other tongues” Pre – conference for the Multispecies storytelling conference at the Linnueaus University and Växjö konsthall, Växjö, Sweden. Curated by Ida Bencke, in collaboration with Karin Bolender. READ...
VILLAGE DRAWING TABLE
VILLAGE DRAWING TABLE 20/20 – 20 år och 20 konstnärer, http://www.virserumskonsthall.com/
You have two cows
02/12 - 28/01 2018Kalmar konstmuseumWe all know what a cow is.She functions as a bridge.There is a similarity between agricultural farms and museums. Both can at times create a feeling of insecurity for those who have not visited a similar place before. Why are the...
Unknown planet/Okänd planet
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Public assignment from municipality of Eskilstuna, as part of a programme to activate recreation area of Vilsta,
and to engage with children from nearby housing areas.
Popup Folkhögskola
On invitation from Kalmar artmuseum, Kultivator opened a pop-up folk high school as an interactive sculpture/happening at the “Ljus på Kultur” Festival. Background The purpose was to activate the Berga-Norrliden area. Kalmar municipality invited Kalmar Art Museum to...
New Horse Cultures
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New horse cultures, study circle
A study circle is a small group of people who meet multiple times to discuss an issue. Study circles may be formed to discuss anything from politics to religion to hobbies. They are differentiated from clubs by their focus on exploring an issue or topic rather than on...
Table of plenty
Table of plenty by Kultivator A part of the alternative education programme “Everything Under The Sun”, that merges the fields of food and art under the issues of climate change through an interdisciplinary, experimental approach. Curated by Ece Pazarbasi and...
Kitchen table activism with Eva Bakkeslett
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.
People making spaces
18-21 September 2015 - Yaroslavl, Russia. Organized by the team «TEXTIL» and TYP Kulturkapital. An international conference with the design sessions with the participation of Russian and European experts in the field of culture and urban development. The...
Presenting at Y Gallery
Y Gallery, Minsk, Belarus http://en.ygallery.by updating...
Farmfest, 10 years Kultivator
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Oscar Guermouche at Kultivator
Oscar Guermouche, Tredje generationen http://www.guermouche.com/root/tredje-generationen/ updating... [AFG_gallery id='99']
Ernest Truely and Nastja Säde Rönkkö in residence
Nastja Säde Rönkkö, http://nastjar.com/take-me-anywhere/ Ernest Truely, http://errorists.weebly.com/ernest-truely.html updating... [AFG_gallery id='100']
Monument of migration
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Dinner with cows 2
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Feeding the backyard
Feeding the backyard, people and creatures. Kultivator and students at ANA, May 2015 Kultivator and a group of students from Ölands folkhögskola enter the atelier and backyard of Astrid Noack, Norrebro, Copenhagen. During one week, they activate the place...
Jag och djuret
One week workshop with art and filmstudents from Ölands Folkhögskola collaborating with the animals: Bea, Barney, Micko, Räkan, Cow crew, birds of the forest, Rabbit kids, Sheep crew and flies. Assignment: Make a piece of work - in collaboration...
Geophagia. Cake and debate with Sweden´s minister of culture
Geophagia, the deliberate consumption of earth, soil, or clay All the concepts of geophagia—as psychiatric disorder, culturally sanctioned practice or sequel to famine—fall short of a satisfying explanation (…) Might it be an atavistic mode of...
Castelvenere – a nicer version of home
Residence at Castelvenere. Organised by Strade di Vini, curated by Leandro Pisano. We travelled by car from our rural home in Dyestad, Sweden crossing Europe to the rural place Castelvenere. For 5 days we worked here wih a group of...
Return ticket
For the Creative Time Summit we supplied some of the ingredients, like milk for cheese and kalvdans (dessert), beans, onion, pumpkin, hard bread and sea Buckthorn (berries), for the dinner at the the Moderna Museet, Stockholm During the dinner we offered return...
Can a toilet become a humus kitchen?
Humus kitchen, Kultivator/Open cargo For the New biennale of art and architecture, Botkyrka konsthal, Fittja, Swedish art and agriculture collective Kultivator together with Stuart Wright, South Africa and Adam Nyandikila Nkelanza, Tanzania, gave a Humus kitchen...
Urban Horse soil action, Riot re-framed
Rotundan, Kalmar [AFG_gallery id='84'] URBAN HORSE SOIL ACTION, Riot Re-framed In April this year, Kultivator build a warm-compost adjacent to the art institution ANA in Nørrebro, Copenhagen....
Soil site plan
Fittja Pavilion, 14th Venice Architecture Biennale. The Soil site plan for residencys in Fittja and Redhill is a sketch made by art and farming collective Kultivator, visualizing a future infrastructure of small independent but connected residencys situated in...
Toilet Obscura
Our contribution to the Nørrekær Biennale 2014 by Anna Lindvall and Alexandre Chapus
Retopia and Reading
Welcome to the Opening of Kultivators un-plugged camp Retopia, and the presentation and reading of the author and midwife Ruth Ehrhardt, South Africa, from her book The little green statue. Introduction by Joanna Sandell, Botkyrka konsthall. Soup by Leila Perikala....
Land Reform
Gislaveds konsthall [AFG_gallery id='83']
Urban horse soil action
Urban horse soil action The project investigated waste management, play, communality and re-introduction of animal power, with the intervention of two working horses, Sarah and Dalton, who joined us perform a...
Dream animal workshop
In the Informal settlement Red Hill, Cape Town. [AFG_gallery id='79'] We did a workshop with kids from the area, asking them to imagine and draw animals from their dreams. [AFG_gallery id='80']...
Chicken coop intervention at !Khwa ttu
Kultivator works one day at !Khwa ttu, the San Education and Culture Centre, 70 km north-west of Cape Town [AFG_gallery id='78'] In cooperation with Botkyrka konsthall, with support from
Context in Flux: workshop
Context in flux symposium 2 Visby The Swedish Exhibition Agency, Baltic Art Center, Nida Art Colony and Art Lab Gnesta collaborate to produce the second symposium for invited participants. Galleri Syster, Kultivator, GKU, Livia Pancu. The aim is to develop tools...
Urban Horse Soil Action step 1
Kultivator at a residence at Astrid Noacks atelier: http://astrid-noack.dk/english. In April 2014, Kultivator wants to build a warm-compost adjacent to the ANA in Copenhagen. The compost will be designed as a possible meeting place for people in the...
Guest researcher: Julia Ramírez Blanco
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Workshops with Ölands Folk Highschool
Documentation of different workshops with students from Ölands Folk Highschool at Kultivator [AFG_gallery id='75']
Yak Yak
Yak Yak is a curatorial project that features newly commissioned and existing works by artists whose practices address rural contexts as particular sites for art making and cultural production. Artists and art/farming/architecture assemblages and collectives from...
Guerilla Composting Ny Ork
Curated by Eva Bakkeslet New Ork is an arena to get inspired by sustainability and green thinking and practice initiatiated by Osebakken Green Neighborhood in Porsgrunn in collaboration with Grenland Artgallery (Norway). The goal is to see how new knowledge and...
Elder’s Hill model
a cooperation with Kalmar Konstmuseum and The M12 Collective
Glupsk
We exhibited at Glupsk på Dalsland at Not Quite. And tried to make an apple press with Karl Hallberg. [AFG_gallery id='73']
In residence: Ernest Truely
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Barn Party
Cows Art and rock 'n' roll. A building site is something that would engage our surrounding (and ourselves) and give direct opportunity for exchange of knowledge. People would come and...
Elder’s Hill
Elder’s Hill is a collaborative project by M12 (USA) and Kultivator (SE), made site-specifically in
Öland Sweden. Elder’s Hill is a part of a much larger and on-going project initiated
by M12 and Kultivator in 2011, titled Gran’s University.
The Bloomshed
A bike shed with a green roof. In cooperation with Brett Alton Bloom, Bonnie Fortune and Trish Roan more info on this great site "The Mythological Quarter" [AFG_gallery id='69'] With thanks to Trish...
Digital culture/Friendfarm workshop
http://cumuluskalmar2013.org/workshop/digitalculture Workshop leader: Robert Ek 6 and 7 June 08.30 Bus from Kalmar Theatre to Dyestad on Öland 09.00-15.00 Workshop, coffee break and lunch included 15.00 Bus back to Kalmar Theatre. Adress: Dyestad, Bygata 7,...
Gran’s University with M12
A cooperation with M12 (http://m12studio.org/) Last Chance, Colorado and Dyestad, Sweden Gran’s University is an artwork inspired by Mrs. Vendana Shiva who in 2003 started the Grandmothers University in Navdanya, North India. The aim of the Grandmothers...
Composted mind
Jana Fröberg has spent this spring with Kultivator, working out compost and cultivation plans. She has studied art as well as gardening. In a close collaboration between human and microorganisms, materials can slowly be processed into something very valuable....
FriendFarm public brainstorm
15-17 Februari, Kulturhuset in Stockholm [AFG_gallery id='65']
Friendfarm
see the site for more info http://www.friendfarm.org/blog/ Friend connections between farms Micro-cooperations for the global cultural Future of the rural! The new multinationals As a visionary, critical project Friendfarm want to question the structures of...
Cartographies Of Hope
we were one of the exhibitors of Cartographies Of Hope: Change Narratives http://www.dox.cz/en/ "It's not the story of the battle; it's the battle of the story!" Patrick Reinsborough In the last few years we have witnessed how the...
Guerilla composting, Feed-back Belgrade
Belgrade Artfair On the stone planet Earth, a layer has been added since the beginning of life, 3.9 billion years ago: our between 5 and 20 cm thick layer of top-soil. In this thin layer, the major part of all biological activity of Earth is going on....
Urban chicken coop
does it choose this instead
Guerilla composting, Feed-back Berlin
Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien 1st September to 28th October 2012 Opening: Friday, 31st August 2012, from 7 pm Hungry City. Agriculture in contemporary art more info On the stone planet Earth,...
Time banking at ANA
Kultivator at a residence atANA, Astrid Noacks atelier: http://astrid-noack.dk/english. In this time we will present and perform time banking, a form of alternative economy.We hereby invite all who would like to work/exchange time to improve the...
Gnestopia
Future Policy “Gnestopia” A policy is a governing document with the overall intentions for the area the policy covers. The review provides guidelines to facilitate development. Kultivator has in spring 2012 worked in a creative school project with children...
Top-Soil
Top-soil tombola on the stone planet. Life makes soil. ↓ ↑ and the soil makes life. On the stone planet Earth, a layer has been added since the beginning of life, 3.9 billion years ago: our between 5 and 20 cm thick layer of topsoil. In this thin...
Gran’s University # 1
28/4 – 20/5 Cirkulationscentralen, Malmö “Gran´s University, ornaments of knowledge” The inspiration for Grans´ University, comes from the initiative of Mrs Vendana Shiva, India, that started up her Grandmothers university in...
Tribute toilet
Tribute toilet 1 and 2 For Artlab Gnesta We decorated the toilet of the artbuilding in honour of Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak, founder of the many times awarded Sulabh Sanitation Movement in India. His work is an example of a single individual’s...
Barents Cross-Cultural Coffee Cheese
Barents spektakel 2012, Kirkenes feb 8-12, organised by: Pikene på Broen For Barents Spektakel the Swedish group Kultivator will try to process a cheese with mixed milk from the four...
post (r)evolutionary exercises
The post (r)evolutionary exercises are the outcome of a meeting/friendship/project that started in summer 2010, when we took part in "Goings on" seminar in Beirut, Lebanon. In this seminar, curated by Cecilia Andersson, Scandinavian and Middle east art...
Lunch with cows
Lunch with cows 28th August in Tammenpää milk farm in western coast of Finland. The framework of the event is Halikonlahti Green Art -project, an initiative of artist and curator Tuula Nikulainen and Sunny Future association. The exhibition,...
The Camp
WORKSHOP ”The camp” -A cross cultural workshop in rum46 with the artist groups from the first Goings On – a seminar organized by Cecilia Andersson that took place in 98weeks project space in Beirut Lebanon from the 24-27 June 2010. Goings On...
m.a.r.i.n
We hosted part of Camp 5 organised by M.A.R.I.N.: http://marin.cc/ facilitates research and collaboration between arts and sciences with a focus on environmental computing and marine ecologies. m.a.r.i.n blog: http://camp.marin.cc/ Links to some of the works...
Imagine Farm
Århus kunstbygning July 2 - August 17 2011 Info slidesimagine Instruction video digital version of exhibition Imagine farm – ground for cultivating thoughts exhibition concept for summer exhibition at Århus Kunstbygning by...
Radical art practises
RADICAL ART PRACTISES GALLERI 21, MALMÖ 7/5 - 29/5 – 2011 YNKB (DK) - THE LEARNING SITE, (DK) & (S) – TEMPORARY SERVICES, BRETT BLOOM & BONNIE FORTUNE (US) - SARAH LEWISON (US) - KULTIVATOR (S) - NANCE KLEHM (US) – OUTDOOR LIBRARY (S)...
Crosscultural Nomadic Cheese nr 2
Supermarket artfair 2011, Kulturhuset, Stockholm A Cross cultural Nomadic Cheese in our boot at Supermarket. 10 litre of milk will be brought from Kultivators farm om Öland, and during the art fair it will be processed into à cheese. This cheese is the...
Processing manifest
An opinionresearch. This installation examines the popularity of statements from the manifest of the European Arts and Agriculture network, agri-culture.eu. This network was established in connection to Kultivators “Wedding between Art and Agriculture” in...
Inland art, agricultures&countryside
Presentation at The Campo Adentro International Conference campo adentro: http://www.campoadentro.es/en/conferencia_internacional The conference lasted for five days (from October 20 to 24, closure day) during which there was an exchange of experiences and...
Crosscultural Nomadic Cheese nr 1
Kultivator residency in Rum 46 Århus, Denmark 18th of October until 31st of October 2010 Most authorities consider that cheese was first made in the Middle East. The earliest type was a form of sour milk which came into being when it was discovered...
Harvestfeast 2010
Cow promise film Harvestfeast 2010 presenting Wedding vow film Wedding scenery Mehdi Chafik Ole Brolin [AFG_gallery id='25'] .
Ditch it
info film (see it big) The International Gallery18 September – 2 October Liverpool Biennial 2010 Curated by James Brady and Janette Porter (http://www.hightideuk.org/) Ditch it Environmental activism by play, art, and small and large animals, coordinated by...
The wedding between art and agriculture
info slides film (by Thomas Gunnar Bagge) ....UNDER CONSTRUCTION..... The Wedding Between Art and Agriculture, in Dyestad, Öland 22 – 24th July 2010 Two ancient human activities will solemnly marry during a three-day wedding in the farm of Kultivator...
Goings On Beirut
Werk in collaboration with 98weeks Project Space presents Goings On A meeting of international independent art spaces taking place in Beirut Public presentations at 98weeks Project Space: Friday June 25 at 6pm ”Space makers Beirut” Cesar Nammour (Recto...
Herbologies/Foraging Networks
Initiators/Organisers: Andrew Gryf Paterson (SCO/FI), Ulla Taipale / Capsula (FI/ES) and Signe Pucena / SERDE(LV). expedition to rural Kurzeme, Western Latvia The Herbologies/Foraging Networks programme of events, focused in Helsinki...
Banns of marriage
Info slides 1. The family tree the interactive family tree the office/timeline 2. Land reform and open source? seminar films mobile plantations 3. Goes Ornamental Gijs Frieling: Outdoor kitchen Erik Sjödin: Super Meal Floor Wesseling: Wedding invitation Marlene...
Wedding cake of no return
Supermarket Artfair 2010, Kulturhuset, Stockholm. We made a wedding cake, announcing the wedding between art and agriculture, for visitors to eat Recipe Supermarket eating film
Organized Networks
. . . Organisers: RIXC, the Center for New Media Culture in cooperation with Association for Contemporary Culture NGOs (Latvia) and international partners. More info see the website ABOUT...
Harvestfeast 2009
At the harvestfeast of 2009 we were honoured with works of: Music and Art Centre “ Yellowbox” who made a living jukebox with singer songwriter John Leo Carter. The artist Jonas Rahm, The photographer Simon Johansson, The artist Marlene...
Cowdown – Seed up
For European union agricultural minister meeting in Växjö, Sweden invitation by Växjö arthall Seed up ! Is a campaign to support the Belgian project seeds for food, initiated by prof. Willem van Cotthem. The project objective is to collect seeds...
Art and Renewable Technologies
Symposium is organised by RIXC, The center for new media culture with the support of Nordic Culture Fund, and Nordic Culture Point ABOUT SYMPOSIUM The 4-day symposium gathering together artists, activists, technologists, scientists and researchers, to share their...
Glocal guide
Info Go to Glocal guide website See the map Glocal guide is an ongoing Kultivator project. Sustainability using open source / information approaches: in art and grassroots culture, ecology, architecture and environmental design Sustainability using Open source...
Interfaces
info Land, art in the Zeeland Wilhelminapolder presents an exhibition in art station Hongersdijk focussing on man in relation to the surrounding landscape. The occasion for the exhibition is the 200th anniversary of the Royal Wilhelmina Polder Society (De KMWP). Works...
Beyond organic
Supermarket 2009 artfair where we showed artist Nick May and Farmer Oloph Fritzén [AFG_gallery id='17']
Open Sauces
Participation Synaesthetic dinner over the future of food. Foam, Brussels, Belgium download the electronic edition of the "Open Sauces" cookbook in pdf format.
Kultivars Beyond Land Art
artist as farmers, and artists’ cultivation projects. Residency and conference at The Elterwater Merz Barn by foundation Littoral, UK.
The Groeneveld forum
Linking Culture and agriculture as a strategy for a meaningful countryside. more info . . . . . . . . . Castle Groeneveld, Baarn, The Netherlands The Groeneveld Forum 2008 is a two-day symposium to explore whether it is...
Chickenhouse
Öland folkhögskola students built a chickenhouse at school film
Harvestfeast 2008
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Up cycled Dinner tables
Students of Capellagården collect and recycle porcelain into 2 dinner tables in three days film
Sentimentala kärl, post peak oil production
Malin Lindmark Vrijman Ett experiment att framställa brukskärl genom odling. Genom frön, mylla, sol, vatten och tid kan kärl tillverkas till mycket låg energi kostnad. För att återknyta till historien och göra...
Mobile chickenhouse
Ölands folkhögskola, form and design students make a mobile chickenhouse film
Rapeseed oil press
Rapeseed oilpress installation at the Verbeke foundation . Rapeseed oilpress installation at the Verbeke foundation
Right to farm the land
info Right to farm the land Cooperation between Plan3/Octava, Kultivator and Public globality gardens, with land from Råbelövs gods. In Swedish language, the expression ”farm the land” can be read both as the right to actually farm, thus grow...
Law of conservation of energy
film oil installation Film/Installation for the group exhibition ±Plus/Minus by SKART at our dear friends place “Yellow Box”. We cut trees, chopped wood from our local forest and placed the wood in the living room of Yellow Box. Projecting at...
Making new friends
info making new friends is a stategy for survival by enlarging kultivators group of friends It was performed at "Supermarket" art fair in Stockholm, and culture week Nybro. Visitors could choose from a selection of vegetables seeds from the seedbank of...
När Stureplan blev bonnigt
info animation (bigger) Open discussion: How can culture, ecologi and economy meet How to get the innercity of Stockholm sustainable Mossutställningar, Birger Jarlsgatan 18A 4tr. Moderatorer: Malin Lindmark Vrijman och Mathieu Vrijman, Kultivator. Panel:...
Tower of power
Tower of Power` Marlene Lindmark and Malin L. Vrijman. From the exhibition Between Reality and Fairytales in Högsby, Sweden 2007, a collaboration...
Supermodel
Exhibition in W139, Amsterdam 'Das Bild muß die funktion der Kartoffel übernehmen ' Jörg Immendorf On December 2005 my family and I moved from Haarlem to a newly-built estate in the country to the north of Nijmegen. Five days later W139 called...
Urgent secret
Keity Anjoure info film URGENT SECRET! This video-performance has been realised in the forest of Dyestad (Sweden) during a residency in the Guest Atelier of Kultivator. In terms of this new collaboration, Keity Anjoure wishes to question the intimacy between voice and...
Earthworks 2007
info Earthworks 2007 Environmental arts and agriculture experiment on site Site – specific - locally produced? We consider this direction within contemporary artpractice to be the far most relevant at the moment, and we recognize that its resting on long...
Ölands souvenir 2007
Ölands Souvenir 2007 - for memory) is an object a traveler brings home for the memories associated with it. Souvenirs include clothing such as T-shirts or hats, and household items such as mugs and bowls, ashtrays, egg timers, spoons and notepads. They may be...
Roadkill
Installation/film at local food market, Kalmar. About the travel of our daily food. film