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19-21 febr “The cake of no return”
Supermarket Artfair, Kulturhuset in Stockholm, Sergels torg 3
Baka krokan och kom med dem till Supermarket artfair, Kulturhuset, 19 – 21 feb!
Det är lätt, redan de gamla grekerna kunde;
• Riv mandelmassa grovt
• tillsätt en äggvita per 250 g. mandelmassa
• blanda
• spritsa ut till olika figurer
• grädda i ca 10 min. i 175 º
• Ta med krokanerna till Kulturhuset och
Supermarket artfair 19 – 31 februari, så limmar vi in dem i the Cake of no return!!
Tack så mycket!!
19-21 febr “The cake of no return”
Supermarket Artfair, Kulturhuset in Stockholm, Sergels torg 3
27 febr – 23 may “Lysning”
Kalmar konstmuseum
22 – 24 july “The wedding between art & agriculture”
Kultivator
the Wedding between art and agriculture.
Manifestation for a new relationship
Background: In late 2008, Art foundation Littoral, UK asked Kultivator to arrange one out of three european preparational meetings that aims to programme an EU/international art and agricultur conference in London 2011. As an answer to this, and as a summing up of almost five years of research and activities in the field of art+agriculture, Kultivator intends to host an international meeting that formalizes our network, and manifests publicly the relation and the fertility of this field. The location is our farm in Dyestad, Öland, Sweden, and the conference will take the form of a wedding and follow the rituals and structures of a traditional peasant wedding, lasting for three days.
Marriage or re- marriage?
What we refer to as agriculture, are different human activities of directing natural processes to gain provision more effectively than by simply collecting. Since the emerge of agriculture, ten thousand years ago, these activities to gain food has shaped us and our surrounding to become the landscapes, the bodies and the animals we have around us today. The agriculture has also shaped our religions, rituals, art and mythology. The other way around, culture, that we here call art, has had a big influence back on agriculture in the way that references and experience has been kept and developed within it. One could speak of a co evolution between the two, where each part played a vital role for the growth of the other. Large parts of the population would be involved in, and aware of the methods to produce food and art.
Now the situation has changed. In the (imagined?) information society and with the arise of a global food industri syndicate, a deep clove has been dug between art and contemporary, commercial agriculture. The transiton of production to constantly bigger and more inaccessible units plays a role, as does the cultural intellectual narrow focus on the urban environment and its particular challenges. Agriculture remains in culture and therefore in popular view, nostalgic and surpassed by rest of society. Factually, nothing could be more incorrect. During the last centuries our agriculture has advanced at tremendous speed, considering science and technology for the purpose of short term economical profit. This development has been made in laboratories and engineer offices, by a small amount of people, and supported and directed by an even smaller amount of people in corporate boards. For the large number of people, the strategies and structures of todays farming are unknown, though we are all living with the consequences of it.
A development of this narrow kind is insufficient. It is not a viable strategy if we on time shall create or re- create human structures and systems to gain what we need to survive from nature in a way that also lets nature survive.
Dr Vandana Shiva puts it this way:
traditional knowledge has grown as a tradition that is shared
it has grown cumulatively and collectively, that is what makes it deeply distinct
international property rights are based on the idea of an individual having rights, based on the idea of an individual making innovation,
which is not the way knowledge works
Kultivator is a place, and an idea, but foremost an ambition to put agriculture and art together, ask them to condition themselves to each other and with the marriage go into a steady relationship (again). Cultural involvement in the design of future systems for food production is not about using a few creative minds to improve details of the whole. It is about making food production and farming a part of public awareness and knowledge. It is about sharing and discussing neccessary decisions for the future openly and commonly. It is about enabling people to take active part in building systems and processing experience – through art + agriculture.
In the time we have been active, we have come across a large and diverse group of individuals, groups, organisations and ideastreams that work in this direction, and the objectives of the wedding is to engage as many as possible of them, in different ways, and
Create a formal network and a base for Kultivator´s archive of art and agricultural works.
Exchange experience and future plans between participants
Formulate a common statement/program proposal for the unifying conference in London 2011.
The aim of this project is to create conditions for development of ideas and discourse round human strategies for survival fromout a social, economical and ecological point of view.
Execution:
We will announce the wedding during a three month period of exhibit in Kalmar Konstmuseum, the regional artmuseum, nationally recognized for its experimental and qualitative exhibition activities.
http://www.kalmarkonstmuseum.se/
During the exhibit time both practical and theoretical work will be done to prepare for the actual wedding. The museum space will be transformed to our office, studio and meetingplace. We have divided the show into three parts, which all have one seminar and one or more interventions in the room and outside.
1. The family tree
organic inventory, creating guestlist, kids workshop and exhibition.
The result of an online inquiry, sent out to friends and friends friends is drawn into a great charcoaltree, that depicts their suggestions of individuals, movements, groups and directions within art and agriculture that would be family.
The tree will be constructed roughly around the suggestions from the inquiry, but it will continously grow, organically and non – absolute, objective or scientific, during the exhibitions first month. Artists will be working in the museum with the drawing, taking in suggestions and additional material along the way. It will also be worked on a software to digitalize the charcoaltree, also in the room, and on the net in this period.
Kids workshop: schoolchildren assigned to go out in the park and find “their” tree and draw it.
2. Land reform and open source
Discussing ownership and accessibility, seminar, exhibition and new Land/Source reform. Seminar in Kalmar artmuseum Wednesday 10:th of March 18:00 – 20.30
The seminar (invited speakers and audience) produces a statement about ownership and accessibility.The statement from the seminar is posted on the glasswall of the exhibition room, and on a series of pallets with topsoil. The pallets are mobile gardens that will be planted and worked on during this phase of the exhibition. In the “new land/source reform” the pallets will be given away after the exhibition is over, one pallet to each municipality in the region, and placed where they decide that their statements about ownership and accessability makes sense. (?)
The filmed lectures from the seminar are projected in the room/on the net during this phase.
3. Goes Ornamental
Producing imagery. Work and exhibition, finishing party.
Visual artists works in the room with ornamental studies in preparation for the wedding. The ornamental studies are corresponding to the information collected in the earlier stages of the exhibition, that remains in the room, but are autonomuos as far as function is concerned. The Ornamental studies examines the visual possibilities of the relation, going back to peasant decorative painting and forward to high tech ecosystem installations of today.
In addition, students from different artschools will work in the room. This will alter the officelike room of the two initial phases to a studio space, with several working artists and students, material sketches and ready objects mixed. The Ornamental phase and the whole exhibition closes with a masquerade party with the costumetheme: Ornamental studies for a wedding between art and agriculture, on 22:th of May, 2010.
The different phases of the museumshow will be documented for a publication, that also will contain material from the wedding. Preparation and planning for the publication will be made by Kultivator in the museum “office” during the whole exhibition period, and in the Ornamental phase Floor Wesseling (graphic designer) will work on the graphic profile, and also design an invitationcard for the weddings open day on the 24:th of July.
The wedding itself is set to take place in Dyestad, Öland on the 22 – 24:th of July 2010.
During the first two days, a group of invited organisations are working collaborately with the preparations for the weddings last public day. They prepare together with Kultivator the activities, speakers lists, menu and ornament. To their disposal is the material produced in the artmuseum, the produce and machinery of the farm, the outdoor and indoor kitchens and last but not least an extended crew of Kultivators local friends.
The last day open to public follows largely the set up for a traditional wedding;
Initial welcome and short introduction to the evening, welcome toast.
The ceremony
Dinner with speaches, roleplays, etc.
Final party, dance, performances, etc
(the detailed program is worked out in the first two days of the wedding)
The last day is open for all, but special care will be taken to invite people with own experience, knowledge and or connection to the field.
All guests are asked to bring a wedding gift, which is a presentation of their work or their personal statement in a format fitting for Kultivators art and agricultural archive.
