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Jag och Djuret

One week workshop with art and filmstudents from Ölands Folkhögskola collaborating with the animals: Bea, Barney, Micko, Räkan, Cow crew, birds of the forest, Rabbit kids, Sheep crew and flies.
Assignment: Make a piece of work – in collaboration with an animal, – dedicated to an animal, – because of an animal, -in spite of an animal, -as an animal, or just spend time with an animal.
The students worked individually or in groups, and created the wolf playing “heroine” to the sheeps, exercises in riding, the ritual circle, nests, architecture for birds, Cow – horror movie, horse and dog ..music, drum-fire-glamrock performance, and forest spirit butterfly.

Geophagia. Cake and debate with Sweden´s minister of culture

Geophagia,
the deliberate consumption of earth, soil, or clay

All the concepts of geophagia—as psychiatric disorder, culturally sanctioned practice or sequel to famine—fall short of a satisfying explanation (…) Might it be an atavistic mode of behaviour, formerly invaluable when minerals and trace elements were scarce? Its re-emergence might then be triggered by events such as famine, cultural change or psychiatric disease (…)

A. Woywodt, Medical history of Geophagia.

For world art day 2015, and the debate on art as subject in school, Kultivator serves the cake Geophagia, made of one of the at the same time shittiest and most precious materials there is.

We´re looking forward to a pleasant time with nutritious trace elements, and a discussion on how we create the best conditions for young people, and with them the rest of society, to grow.

Castelvenere – a nicer version of home

Residence at Castelvenere.
Organised by Strade di Vini, curated by Leandro Pisano.
We travelled by car from our rural home in Dyestad, Sweden crossing Europe to the rural place Castelvenere. For 5 days we worked here wih a group of teenagers where their own reflections and desires about the area guided the work.
Resulting in new designs for carnival masks under the title “Into the vineyard” and a series of photo manipulations changing the small town Caselvenere after desire.

Return Ticket

For the Creative Time Summit we supplied some of the ingredients, like milk for cheese and kalvdans (dessert), beans, onion, pumpkin, hard bread and sea Buckthorn (berries), for the dinner at the the Moderna Museet, Stockholm
During the dinner we offered return tickets to use the compost toilet we temporarily installed to give the chance to return some of the energy given by our farm.
We brought the digested material back to our farm and will use it to grow corn and sunflowers in the next growing season.

Can a toilet become a humus kitchen?

For the New biennale of art and architecture, Botkyrka konsthal, Fittja, Swedish art and agriculture collective Kultivator together with Stuart Wright, South Africa and Adam Nyandikila Nkelanza, Tanzania, gave a Humus kitchen workshop.

A humus kitchen is a room to prepare the organic materials excreted by people after their digestive processes, using time, warmth and fine ingredients in a similar way as a kitchen of foods.

In the workshop we discuss and work around stories and attitudes connected to kitchens versus toilets, how they can connect and how we experience them. Can going to the toilet be as creative, sensual and important as carefully preparing food? What are the political, social and cultural conditions wherein our experiences around toilets are shaped?

The humus kitchen is one in a series of composting and exchange actions that Kultivator has made in collaboration with Botkyrka konsthall. Closed system compost toilet will be built in Kultivators future project Open Cargo, a long term work that builds a grassroots infrastructure of small independent but connected residencys in respective community, connecting Fittja, Red Hill South Africa, Mbeya in Tanzania and Dyestad, Öland, Sweden. The residencys will be formed by each community according to its needs and to its abilities, and just like the humus kitchen in Fittja explore the potentials of each place to create small-scale sustainable architecture.