Yak Yak

Yak Yak is a curatorial project that features newly commissioned and existing works by artists whose practices address rural contexts as particular sites for art making and cultural production. Artists and art/farming/architecture assemblages and collectives from four continents present works that engage with their own localities and with other localities, emphasizing the importance of trans-local dialogue around the future of rural places.
Yak Yak is conceived within the framework of ACRE (Australia’s Creative Rural Economy), a network and project based in the Victoria/NSW region. The ACRE Project generates art interventions and dialogues in rural situations, opening a space to think differently about what can happen on farms in the present and the future.
Yak Yak takes place in the Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Victoria. It ​is co-curated by Ian Tully and Fiona Woods, working closely with invited contributors.

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Guerilla Composting Ny Ork

Curated by Eva Bakkeslet

New Ork is an arena to get inspired by sustainability and green thinking and practice initiatiated by Osebakken Green Neighborhood in Porsgrunn in collaboration with Grenland Artgallery (Norway). The goal is to see how new knowledge and aesthetic experiences can inspire and create a foundation and understanding of sustainable ways to collaborate and develop urban areas. http://evasnews.blogspot.se/2013/09/ny-ork.html

GUERILLA COMPOSTING, FEED-BACK PORSGRUNN
On the stone planet Earth, a layer has been added since the beginning of life, 3.9 bil -lion years ago:
our between 5 and 20 cm thick layer of top-soil. In this thin layer, the major part of all biological activity
of Earth is going on. Through our various actions we are either nourishing or depleting this layer.
The interaction of microorganisms in the topsoil and life above means without exaggeration
everything for life’s further progression. The lack of organic matter brought back to the soil in modern large scale farming is rapidly
destroying invaluable top-soil worldwide, putting the whole foodproduction of the future at risk.  
Recent years guerilla gardening is a fantastic movement, addressing many of the problems connected to industrial agriculture
and urban – rural disconnection.
For Porsgrunn, Kultivator will make an action of“guerilla composting”, that adds to this practice,
and encourages people to feed – back nutrition to the ground they live on.

Glupsk

We exhibited at Glupsk på Dalsland at Not Quite.
And tried to make an apple press with Karl Hallberg.

In residence: Ernest Truely

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.