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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 crops in the soil, and as the right to use, or make use, of the land meaning a country, or national state. During the project ”Right to farm the land”, the three groups Octava/plan3, Kultivator and Public globality gardens cooperated with Råbelövs gods, a big landowner in the south of Sweden, who was willing to provide one hectar of farm land for artistic purposes. (For a large industrial farm as his, 10 000 m² laying like this piece isolated in a forest, is too small to work in a profitable way.) Close to this piece of land lies a suburb of the city Kristianstad, called Gamlegården (=old farm) that is home to a large community of people that migrated from rural areas in Somalia and the south of Iraq quite recently. In this suburb we set up an office in an abandoned bankoffice in a small shoppingmall, and started interviewing people asking whether they had farming experience and interest in using a piece of land for growing food. During one week, the message was informally spread that for those who wanted, Rights to farm the land would be granted for at least one year and maybe longer. No costs, but also no help or support was connected to the Rights. The choice to hand over Rights rather than ”this piece of land”, was to avoid creating merely a set of allotment gardens, and imply that the right to make use of it could also apply outside the conventional structures of ownership. The Rights to farm the land where handed out in spring 2008, and around 40 groups, individuals and families started to grow food. In spite of little Challenges like drought, wild animals and somewhat suspicious neighbours were conquered by the group’s own resources, with little coordination or external support, During Spring 2009, the group – with many fall outs and many newcomers – transformed itself into a formal collective that shares responsibility for water harvesting and working tools.
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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 crops in the soil, and as the right to use, or make use, of the land meaning a country, or national state.
During the project ”Right to farm the land”, the three groups Octava/plan3, Kultivator and Public globality gardens cooperated with Råbelövs gods, a big landowner in the south of Sweden, who was willing to provide one hectar of farm land for artistic purposes. (For a large industrial farm as his, 10 000 m² laying like this piece isolated in a forest, is too small to work in a profitable way.)
Close to this piece of land lies a suburb of the city Kristianstad, called Gamlegården (=old farm) that is home to a large community of people that migrated from rural areas in Somalia and the south of Iraq quite recently.
In this suburb we set up an office in an abandoned bankoffice in a small shoppingmall, and started interviewing people asking whether they had farming experience and interest in using a piece of land for growing food. During one week, the message was informally spread that for those who wanted, Rights to farm the land would be granted for at least one year and maybe longer. No costs, but also no help or support was connected to the Rights. The choice to hand over Rights rather than ”this piece of land”, was to avoid creating merely a set of allotment gardens, and imply that the right to make use of it could also apply outside the conventional structures of ownership.
The Rights to farm the land where handed out in spring 2008, and around 40 groups, individuals and families started to grow food. In spite of little Challenges like drought, wild animals and somewhat suspicious neighbours were conquered by the group’s own resources, with little coordination or external support, During Spring 2009, the group – with many fall outs and many newcomers – transformed itself into a formal collective that shares responsibility for water harvesting and working tools.
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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 the same time a documentation of our work
Fire for friends
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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 Kultivators Ranchito. The seeds were planted in paper cups and marked with numbers. The new friends paid 100 swedish kr, and Kultivator promise to raise the plant and send images of how it developes, so that new friends can decide when to come by and harvest.
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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 Kultivators Ranchito. The seeds were planted in paper cups and marked with numbers. The new friends paid 100 swedish kr, and Kultivator promise to raise the plant and send images of how it developes, so that new friends can decide when to come by and harvest.
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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: Eva Helmenius, Vice VD, Kraft&Kultur,
Elin Rydström, Lovö Prästgård
Drottningholm,
Stella d´Ailly, Mossutställningar,
Mohamed El abed, Sprong kommunikation.
Arrangörer: Mossutställningar,
Sprong kommunikation.
Med stöd av LRF, Stiftelsen framtidens kultur, Brakspear Oxford Gold Organic.
Mossutställningar är en konstproducent som arrangerar utställningar i den offentliga miljön
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Ranchito, the conference table
.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: Eva Helmenius, Vice VD, Kraft&Kultur,
Elin Rydström, Lovö Prästgård
Drottningholm,
Stella d´Ailly, Mossutställningar,
Mohamed El abed, Sprong kommunikation.
Arrangörer: Mossutställningar,
Sprong kommunikation.
Med stöd av LRF, Stiftelsen framtidens kultur, Brakspear Oxford Gold Organic.
Mossutställningar är en konstproducent som arrangerar utställningar i den offentliga miljön
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Tower of Power` Marlene Lindmark and Malin L. Vrijman.
From the exhibition Between Reality and Fairytales in Högsby,
Sweden 2007, a collaboration between Kalmar Art Museum and Högsby.
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