Cows Art and  rock ‘n’ roll

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 say;” no, dont do it like that, or use this material, etc…
 This happened, and via this also a lot of help, that we got from the farm and others in the village, that drove more than 20 hours digging machine and moved more than 200 tons of soil. In exchange of all this time and effort, we promised to make a barn party after, with a special band and to invite the american car club. Which meant that after the M12 project, we worked with our interns, friends and visiting artists on cleaning the barn, building furniture and outdoor toilets, setting up a bar, etc, to make the barnfest possible. In the end of it all, together with trash performance of artist in residence Ernest Truely, the party paid back what we got from the village, and a successfull project was round.

Elder’s Hill

Elder’s Hill

Elder’s Hill is a collaborative project by M12 (USA) and Kultivator (SE), made site-specifically in
Öland Sweden. This work is emblematic of M12 and Kultivator’s artistic practice, based largely around
cultural exchange in a rural context and in the case of Elder’s Hill, particular attention the sharing
of intergenerational knowledge. 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 past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.”

 

Digital culture/Friendfarm workshop

Digital culture/Friendfarm workshop

Digital Culture can be regarded as a praxis of communicative interactions between people on line. We do what we always have done, sharing knowledge, bending reality, but the speed has increased and distances have shortened.
From digital culture may emerge a digital tradition of knowledge gathering, production and collaboration as a mindset practised locally off line and reaching globally on line. Such a contiguous interplay between online interactions and offline practice can be found in different movements such as Occupy, the DIY movement etc., which have emerged on a broad scale in a short time. In this workshop we will participate with Kultivator, a collaborative artist collective working with farming in a local and a global context. Together we will identify areas of interest for designers, artists,  architects, programmers and interaction designers, and we will work collaboratively hands on with problems  of knowledge sharing and knitting distant areas together. The workshop will take place on the Kultivator farm in Dyestad in rural Öland, an island close to Kalmar. Bring rough clothes!
Robert Ek is an interaction designer with a multidisciplinary background in history, media sociology and art.
participants:
Frederic Degouzon, (France). Annabel Pretty, (New Zealand). Maria Luisa Galbiati, (Italy). Eric Maquet, (Belgium). Takayuki Higuchi,(Japan). Junfeng Ding, (China). Steve Diskin, (USA). Yu-Chun Liu, (Taiwan) .Åse  Huus, (Norge). Elisa Bertolotti, (Italy).