m.a.r.i.n

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 made at our farm

http://boskoi.org/reports/view/773

http://ecoarte.info/marinetime/category/trips/sweden/

http://niki.xarch.at/wordpress/?p=251762905

http://www.memelab.ca/kultivator-vegetables-art/    

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Imagine Farm

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 Kultivator

Much of today’s focus is laying on what kind of future we don’t want, or are afraid of… On what we must not do, or must not have. The critical analysis of what is destructive, non sustainable systems occupies great space in relation to the creative imagination of the sustainable, pleasant and wanted ones. The desired future must be imagined in order to be possible.

To meet this need, Kultivator and Århus kunstbygning will settle the Imagine farm, for and by children. A farm is an area designated to growth and cultivation, in this case of imaginations of future systems to live.

In the basement of Århus Kunstbyggning, Kultivator will build up the Imagine farm. It will serve as a working space where desired future systems for food production, social work, energy production, waste management, housing, etc. are visualized and tested. The material for this is imagined and described by children, and represented in objects and animated film sequences by the artists and farmers of Kultivator. This translation of the children´s imagination into objects and films constitutes the first step in the settling of Imagine farm.

Step Two is the use of the farm, when visiting children (and parents) are asked to interact with the systems and rearrange them, try other ways, and document their imagined scenarios. The Imagine farm will thus be in constant change, and photos and texts of arrangements made along the way will be a growing collection of imagined futures. Here we will try to use a technology to let visitors file their photos and written comments into small animations, so that new, other films appear. Alternatively, the photos and text will be printed and made accessible to visitors in the exhibition. Or both.

Since all objects can and will be moved around, and to stress the representative character of the objects, the material we use will be papier mache´. This is a low cost, bio degradable material that is light to handle and fairly easily breaks. It is also a material and technique that is well – known for most children. No new objects will be made within the exhibition, but we will set up a repair workshop, where repairs and small adjustments can be made to the objects that are already there. To repair broken objects is another, meaningful way to interact in Imagine farm.

One event/workshop will be held, where the Imagine farm receives grown up users; preferably local politicians, or other groups that should be particularly interested in the view and interests of children for future society. The invited grown ups can take part of the information collected, and self use the farm to visualize and test thoughts.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

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Radical art practises

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) & SPECIAL GUEST: GODNATTSAGOR INIFRÅN, MALMÖ CITY LIBRARY (S)
 
RADICAL ART PRACTISES is a project about artists working with art practises at prisons, schools, public spaces and war zones. Radical Art Practises wants to show unusual practises used in contemporary art context, and artists directly acting in processes in societies and collaboration with ethical purposes. Artists within this field works crossover, crossing traditional borders of collaborations and professions. Radical Art Practises has a purpose to connect art practises to The Rio-convention and Agenda 21, the goals to relate artists work with collective action for a sustainable society on social/cultural, environmental and economical level.
International artist/ groups from US, Denmark and Sweden are invited to present their activities and projects. Radical Art Practices is built on participation and dialogue.
Radical Art Practises is an artist-run project by OUTDOOR LIBRARY, Christel Lundberg, in collaboration with Galleri 21, an artist run gallery.
Supported by: Statens Konstråd, Region Skåne, Malmö Stad, Roos Neon & Mediaverkstaden Skåne

more info,… Svenska,

 


 

 

Crosscultural Nomadic Cheese nr 2

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 second one in à series of cheese made in cultural institutions. Micro cultures in the non- pasteurised milk from the farm will  react and developed together with the collective cultures from artist – run  gallery's and the great culture of Stockholms Kulturhuset, for à cheese with strong and complex taste.

 

 

 

 

 

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Processing manifest

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 July 2010, and officially launched at he international conference “Campo Adentro”, in Madrid later the same year.

Places of research:
Supermarket artfair , Kulturhuset, Stockholm
Himmelsberga, Öland

 

Statements:

We shall consider feast functional and work-out decadent.

We shall make art like farmers and farm like artist.

We shall disregard national borders, and refuse advantages given to us by historical crime

We shall recognize traditional rural knowledge an open tool for radical change.

We shall upgrade our pets to become our co – workers.

We shall be producers and political beings before  consumers and voters.

 

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