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 on Öland, Sweden, in this summer. The first two days involve a group of 20 especially invited people that work with the preparations. The last day, 24th July, the public is welcome to attend the ceremony and participate in the celebration that precedes and follows ..
Art and Agriculture will be put together, asked to condition themselves to each other and with the marriage go into a steady relationship. Cultural involvement in the development 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 necessary 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.
For five years, the experimental platform Kultivator has initiated, attended to- and executed projects that examines the context and cross-fertilization between agriculture and art. In these often international activities Kultivator have encountered a growing number of organizations and individuals involved in this field. A selected group of those are now gathering on the farm in Dyestad. They will during two days jointly prepare a suitable ritual, festivity and discussion topics fitting this historical association. The wedding is a transparent, public manifestation, but also the formal creation of a network between related organizations and individuals. The wedding has been prepared during a three month long exhibition in Kalmar art museum, and a review (in Swedish) can be read here:
Organizations participating in Dyestad are:
Plataforma Rural, Fernando Garcia, SP
My Villages, Wapke Feenstra, http://www.myvillages.org NL / D
Serde, Signe Pucena, Ugis Pucena, http://www.serde.lv/ LV
Grizedale Arts, Adam Sutherland, http://www.grizedale.org/ UK
The Australian A & A ACRE Network, Ian Tully, AU
Hesta farm, Oloph Fritzen http://www.4hlantbruk.se/documents/gard.html SE
Kalmar Art Museum, Inger Stjerna http://www.kalmarkonstmuseum.se/ SE
Fiona Woods, http://www.fionawoods.net/ IR
Louise Lövmo, People’s University, http://www.folkuniversitetet.se/ SE
Helle Kvamme, Yellowbox http://www.hellekvamme.se/yellowbox. SE
Gijs Frieling, http://www.gijsfrieling.nl/ NL
Andrew Paterson, SCO http://agryfp.info/ / FI
Erik Sjödin, http://eriksjodin.net/ SE
Benn Sena da Silva, DK
Randy Albright, U.S. / P
Thomas Bagge, DK
Mia Sloth Moller, DK
Those invited will include wedding speech, in which they formulate the possible opportunities and challenges this new relationship is facing. They will also in consultation with Kultivator design ceremony itself, which is therefore up to the date itself is unknown. We will during the day, before the ceremony, have workshops in: Vodka production in Latvian style, Cook and taste the future of fast food, Sketch out a dream farm, and also have talk sessions with the invited organizations. The International village shop by My Villages and Wapke Feenstra also opens up in our farm shop.
Brief information about the artists who have done special work to the wedding:
Gijs Frieling, NL (director W139, winner of the Prix de Rome, an associate professor at Rijksacademie Amsterdam, etc, etc) in Falu red mural of a purpose-built outdoor kitchen to the wedding.
Benn Sena da Silva, DK (utb. Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Rietveld Academy) One of the farm’s tractors painted in Delft blue porcelain.
Andrew Paterson, SCO (Andrew Paterson Gryf artist-organizing, Educator, Cultural producer, and independent researcher, based in Helsinki, Finland.) Clipkino Events Art and Agriculture.
Fiona Woods infrared (MA Art in the Contemporary World NCAD Dublin, Ireland) Showing and working on collaborative trans-european network for local production.
Michel Bussien SE “Sheep Lawn Mower” an application for Sheep.
Mathieu Vrijman GB / NL (founder Kultivator, Rietveld Academy) work on the show and the work “Camp” that will entertain the wedding guests, discussion groups and audiences in the wedding, and rebuilt as a remake of the camp from the television series MASH.
Marlene Lindmark SE (State Kunsthöyskole, Oslo) Make a dinner set for the wedding dinner with ornaments of over 200 parts second hand china.
Wapke Feenstra, NL; My Villages, shows “The international village shop with
Erik Sjödin SE. Shows his work “Super Meal” that is centered around growing, eating and cooking the super plant Azolla, also shown at Färgfabriken summer of 2010.
Sisters of Sättra SE Radical sewing circles, Öland; draft before the wedding dress of silage plastic.
Ingegerd Peterson, Loom with barbed wire
Programme:
12:00 arrival, exhibition of participating organizations and the display of custom artwork., Opening of the International Village shop.
13:00 to 14:00 time for lunch.
14:00 to 17:00 p.m. Workshop floral decoration for the young, Visualize your farm with Wapke Feenstra, vodka workshop with Serde from Latvia, Workshop “Super Meal” by Erik Sjödin, the cooking of Azolla. Group discussions / conversations with the audience, children’s activity continued.
17:00 to 18:00 ceremony / MARRIAGE CEREMONY with procession
18:00 to 20:00 Dinner with speakers, 10 + slide shows
21:00 Clipkino event Art and Agriculture, by Andrew Paterson
22:00 – Live Band Darya and the Moonlight Orchestra, VJ Art and Agriculture.
The wedding is to consolidate Kultivator as a place for the development of ideas and discussions on strategies for regional survival of art + agriculture as the base. We aim to continue our local and international discussion on future solutions from an artistic, economic and ecological point of view. We create with the wedding of a further foundation for our further activities on site at Öland.
www.kultivator.org
The wedding is implemented with the support of: The future of culture, The People’s University, The Regional Association of Kalmar and LRF
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. 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 on Öland, Sweden, in this summer. The first two days involve a group of 20 especially invited people that work with the preparations. The last day, 24th July, the public is welcome to attend the ceremony and participate in the celebration that precedes and follows .. Art and Agriculture will be put together, asked to condition themselves to each other and with the marriage go into a steady relationship. Cultural involvement in the development 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 necessary 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. For five years, the experimental platform Kultivator has initiated, attended to- and executed projects that examines the context and cross-fertilization between agriculture and art. In these often international activities Kultivator have encountered a growing number of organizations and individuals involved in this field. A selected group of those are now gathering on the farm in Dyestad. They will during two days jointly prepare a suitable ritual, festivity and discussion topics fitting this historical association. The wedding is a transparent, public manifestation, but also the formal creation of a network between related organizations and individuals. The wedding has been prepared during a three month long exhibition in Kalmar art museum, and a review (in Swedish) can be read here: http://lh3.ggpht.com/_W63dWK-DVUA/TA3zlNktJVI/AAAAAAAABa8/C-HjYIL2QpM/dn.jpg Organizations participating in Dyestad are: Plataforma Rural, Fernando Garcia, SP My Villages, Wapke Feenstra, http://www.myvillages.org NL / D Serde, Signe Pucena, Ugis Pucena, http://www.serde.lv/ LV Grizedale Arts, Adam Sutherland, http://www.grizedale.org/ UK The Australian A & A ACRE Network, Ian Tully, AU Hesta farm, Oloph Fritzen http://www.4hlantbruk.se/documents/gard.html SE Kalmar Art Museum, Inger Stjerna http://www.kalmarkonstmuseum.se/ SE Fiona Woods, http://www.fionawoods.net/ IR Louise Lövmo, People's University, http://www.folkuniversitetet.se/ SE Helle Kvamme, Yellowbox http://www.hellekvamme.se/yellowbox. SE Gijs Frieling, http://www.gijsfrieling.nl/ NL Andrew Paterson, SCO http://agryfp.info/ / FI Erik Sjödin, http://eriksjodin.net/ SE Benn Sena da Silva, DK Randy Albright, U.S. / P Thomas Bagge, DK Mia Sloth Moller, DK Those invited will include wedding speech, in which they formulate the possible opportunities and challenges this new relationship is facing. They will also in consultation with Kultivator design ceremony itself, which is therefore up to the date itself is unknown. We will during the day, before the ceremony, have workshops in: Vodka production in Latvian style, Cook and taste the future of fast food, Sketch out a dream farm, and also have talk sessions with the invited organizations. The International village shop by My Villages and Wapke Feenstra also opens up in our farm shop. Brief information about the artists who have done special work to the wedding: Gijs Frieling, NL (director W139, winner of the Prix de Rome, an associate professor at Rijksacademie Amsterdam, etc, etc) in Falu red mural of a purpose-built outdoor kitchen to the wedding. Benn Sena da Silva, DK (utb. Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Rietveld Academy) One of the farm's tractors painted in Delft blue porcelain. Andrew Paterson, SCO (Andrew Paterson Gryf artist-organizing, Educator, Cultural producer, and independent researcher, based in Helsinki, Finland.) Clipkino Events Art and Agriculture. Fiona Woods infrared (MA Art in the Contemporary World NCAD Dublin, Ireland) Showing and working on collaborative trans-european network for local production. Michel Bussien SE “Sheep Lawn Mower" an application for Sheep. Mathieu Vrijman GB / NL (founder Kultivator, Rietveld Academy) work on the show and the work "Camp" that will entertain the wedding guests, discussion groups and audiences in the wedding, and rebuilt as a remake of the camp from the television series MASH. Marlene Lindmark SE (State Kunsthöyskole, Oslo) Make a dinner set for the wedding dinner with ornaments of over 200 parts second hand china. Wapke Feenstra, NL; My Villages, shows "The international village shop with Erik Sjödin SE. Shows his work "Super Meal" that is centered around growing, eating and cooking the super plant Azolla, also shown at Färgfabriken summer of 2010. Sisters of Sättra SE Radical sewing circles, Öland; draft before the wedding dress of silage plastic. Ingegerd Peterson, Loom with barbed wire Programme: 12:00 arrival, exhibition of participating organizations and the display of custom artwork., Opening of the International Village shop. 13:00 to 14:00 time for lunch. 14:00 to 17:00 p.m. Workshop floral decoration for the young, Visualize your farm with Wapke Feenstra, vodka workshop with Serde from Latvia, Workshop "Super Meal" by Erik Sjödin, the cooking of Azolla. Group discussions / conversations with the audience, children's activity continued. 17:00 to 18:00 ceremony / MARRIAGE CEREMONY with procession 18:00 to 20:00 Dinner with speakers, 10 + slide shows 21:00 Clipkino event Art and Agriculture, by Andrew Paterson 22:00 – Live Band Darya and the Moonlight Orchestra, VJ Art and Agriculture. The wedding is to consolidate Kultivator as a place for the development of ideas and discussions on strategies for regional survival of art + agriculture as the base. We aim to continue our local and international discussion on future solutions from an artistic, economic and ecological point of view. We create with the wedding of a further foundation for our further activities on site at Öland. www.kultivator.org The wedding is implemented with the support of: The future of culture, The People's University, The Regional Association of Kalmar and LRF
(Dansk version findes her: http://vimeo.com/25896527)
The Wedding Between Art & Agriculture, 2011. (Full version, 39 min).
A documentary about KULTIVATOR, an experimental cooperation of organic farming and visual art practice, situated in rural village Dyestad, on the island of Öland, Sweden.
In the summer of 2010 Kultivator initiated The Wedding Between Art and Agriculture, an artist conference and public ceremony which intended to unite the two ancient activities. The film shows the preparation process before the wedding ceremony – with flashbacks to a variety of agricultural and social projects that Kultivator have initiated, and thus gives a glimpse into the experimental and idealistic world of Kultivator.
Several languages spoken. English subtitles.
Information about Kultivator: https://kultivator.org/
02:29 Interview with Malin Lindmark Vrijman & Mathieu Vrijman: The beginning of Kultivator.
04:22 Tractor Ballet 2004.
05:17 Wedding participants first meeting.
07:29 Interview: The countryside.
08:46 Dinner with the Cows 2005.
09:33 Interview: Art and Agriculture.
13:36 Interview: Kultivator as an artist group.
15:40 Interview: The Wedding – family and networks.
18:37 Fiona Woods and Mia Sloth Møller presenting plan.
20:19 Discussion: Gijs Frieling, Adam Sutherland, Fernando Garcia.
22:32 Meeting in the barn.
25:21 Preparations in the barn.
27:30 The guests are arriving. Workshops. Presentations.
30:32 The wedding ceremony.
34:14 Dinner, speeches and dancing.
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 Verso Library) Christine Tohme (Ashkal Alwan) and Jadmur collective (Ghassan Maasri and Mansour Aziz)
Sunday June 27 at 3pm ”Space as Support” Pikene på Broen (Norway), Kultivator (Sweden), rum46 (Denmark), El Hervidero (Spain), All Art Now, (Syria), Samandal (Lebanon), Interruptions (Jordan), Medrar (Egypt), Cura Bodrum residency (Turkey)
Music performance & drinks All welcome!
GOINGS ON
Goings On is a temporary platform that encourages creative exchange between independent practitioners. The aim is to facilitate communication about site specific and locally generated knowledge in a friendly and conducive environment. Goings On brings together practitioners for critical debate and exchange, providing opportunities for participants to reflect on their own practice while staying informed by a wider context. Goings On consists of project presentations, moderated discussions and collaborative group work as well as sharing meals and hanging out together.
Participants: Pikene på Broen (Norway), Kultivator (Sweden), rum46 (Denmark), El Hervidero (Spain), All Art Now, (Syria), Samandal (Lebanon), Makan House (Jordan), Medrar (Egypt), Cura (Turkey) and more.
“Space makers Beirut”
Public presentations by invited guests from Beirut, Friday June 25 at 6pm. Ceasar Namour (Recto Verso gallery) Christine Tohme (Ashkal Alwan) and Jadmur collective
“Space as Support”
Public presentations by invited guests, Sunday June 27 at 3pm. Pikene på Broen (Norway), Kultivator (Sweden), rum46 (Denmark), El Hervidero (Spain), All Art Now, (Syria), Samandal (Lebanon), Interruptions (Jordan), Medrar (Egypt), Cura Bodrum residency (Turkey) Music performance and drinks. All welcome!
98weeks Project Space is located at Naher street (Jisr el hadid), Chalhoub building, n 22 – ground floor, facing Spoiler Center, dead end street at the corner of Anthurium flower, left side, corner bldg.
The Herbologies/Foraging Networks programme of events, focused in Helsinki (Finland) and Kurzeme region of Latvia, explores the cultural traditions and knowledge of herbs, edible and medicinal plants, within the contemporary context of online networks, open information-sharing, biological andhydroponictechnologies.
The traditions of finding and knowing about wild food in the local Nordic environment are slipping away from the current generation. How can one attract their attention: With books, online maps, workshops, mobile-guided tours, open-source information or DNA code? Or learn how to grow them yourself, over the dark winter months?
ThePixelache Festivalevents introduce the different meeting points between the three collaborating partners, including seminar presentations by international artists and Finnish botanical experts; workshops sharing that knowledge with the public; a round-table discussion about foraging in the urban context; and a localised manifestation of theWindowfarms Project
(US).
Following, in a midsummer expedition to ruralKurzeme, Western Latvia,SERDEInterdisciplinary Art Group will lead fieldwork to learn about the cultural heritage of Balts using wild plants, and create documents for the younger ‘digital native’ generation.
. announcement of the wedding between art and agriculture during a three month period of exhibit in Kalmar konstmuseum During the exhibit time both practical and theoretical work will be done to prepare for the actual wedding. we have divided the show into three parts, which all have one seminar part and one or more interventions in the room and outside. as follows: 1. The family tree organic inventory, creating guestlist. Seminar, kids workshop and exhibition. Invited people with deep knowledge of art respectively farming, will bring/send their suggestions of individuals, movements, groups and directions to kultivator beforehand. This material will be placed in a charcoal drawing of a family tree. The tree will be constructed roughly around the suggestions we begin with, but it will continously grow, organically and non-absolute, nor 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. If possible, students from Kalmar Högskola would work on a software to digitalize the charcoaltree, also in the room, and on the net in this period. 2. Land reform and open source? Discussing ownership and accessibility, seminar, exhibition and new Land/Source reform. Seminar with: Julian Priest http://www.banffcentre.ca/faculty/faculty_member.aspx?facId=3009 (streaming) lecture over back to the land movement and the early internet and open source groups from west coast US. Appr. 1/2 hour Maria LindmarkSE lecture of swedish land reform, history of ownership of land and other approaches to dividing and sharing land. Appr. 1/2 hour Andrew Paterson SCO/FI Tapio Mäkelä FI/UK Jonas Löhnn, “National board of swedish Jak bank” interest free alternative banking moderator: Jonas Gren 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, and placed where their statements about ownership and accessability makes sense. (Institutions? public places? – still to be worked out) 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. Working artists are Erik Sjodin , http://www.eriksjodin.net/, "Supermeal" Gijs Freeling http://www.gijsfrieling.nl/ NL Floor Wesseling http://www.floorwesseling.nl/play/city-derbies/ NL Benn Sena da Silva, DK Marlene Lindmark http://www.marlenelindmark.com/picturs.html SE Terike Haapoja http://www.terikehaapoja.net/2009/ FIN Michiel Bussien "sheep lawn mower" Sisters of Sättra 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.
. organic inventory, creating guestlist. Invited people with deep knowledge of art respectively farming, will bring/send their suggestions of individuals, movements, groups and directions to kultivator beforehand. This material will be placed in a charcoal drawing of a family tree. The tree will be constructed roughly around the suggestions we begin with, but it will continously grow, organically and non-absolute, nor 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. If possible, students from Kalmar Högskola would work on a software to digitalize the charcoaltree, also in the room, and on the net in this period.
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. “traditional knowledge have grown as a tradition that is being shared, it has grown cumulatively and collectively, it is what makes it deeply distinctive, international copyright is based on the idea of one individual who has certain rights, which builds on the idea of one person who has made an innovation and this is not the way knowledge works” /Dr Vandana Shiva Discussing ownership and accessibility, seminar, exhibition and new Land/Source reform. Seminar with: Julian Priest http://www.banffcentre.ca/faculty/faculty_member.aspx?facId=3009 (streaming) lecture over back to the land movement and the early internet and open source groups from west coast US. Appr. 1/2 hour Maria LindmarkSE lecture of swedish land reform, history of ownership of land and other approaches to dividing and sharing land. Appr. 1/2 hour Andrew Paterson SCO/FI Tapio Mäkelä FI/UK Jonas Löhnn, “National board of swedish Jak bank” interest free alternative banking moderator: Jonas Gren 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, and placed where their statements about ownership and accessability makes sense. (Institutions? public places? – still to be worked out) The filmed lectures from the seminar are projected in the room/on the net during this phase.
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. 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. Working artists are Erik Sjodin , http://www.eriksjodin.net/, “Supermeal” Gijs Freeling http://www.gijsfrieling.nl/ NL Floor Wesseling http://www.floorwesseling.nl/play/city-derbies/ NL Benn Sena da Silva, DK Marlene Lindmark http://www.marlenelindmark.com/picturs.html SE Terike Haapoja http://www.terikehaapoja.net/2009/ FIN Michiel Bussien “sheep lawn mower” Sisters of Sättra 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.
