People making spaces

18-21 September 2015 - Yaroslavl, Russia. Organized by the team «TEXTIL» and TYP Kulturkapital. An international conference with the design sessions with the participation of Russian and European experts in the field of culture and urban development. The...

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Feeding the backyard

Feeding the backyard, people and creatures. Kultivator and students at ANA, May 2015 Kultivator and a group of students from Ölands folkhögskola enter the atelier and backyard of Astrid Noack, Norrebro, Copenhagen. During one week, they activate the place...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Can a toilet become a humus kitchen?

Humus kitchen, Kultivator/Open cargo 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...

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Urban Horse soil action, Riot re-framed

Rotundan, Kalmar                     [AFG_gallery id='84'] URBAN HORSE SOIL ACTION, Riot Re-framed In April this year, Kultivator build a warm-compost adjacent to the art institution ANA in Nørrebro, Copenhagen....

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Soil site plan

Fittja Pavilion, 14th Venice Architecture Biennale. The Soil site plan for residencys in Fittja and Redhill is a sketch made by art and farming collective Kultivator, visualizing a future infrastructure of small independent but connected residencys situated in...

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Toilet Obscura

Our contribution to the Nørrekær Biennale 2014 by Anna Lindvall and Alexandre Chapus    

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Retopia and Reading

Welcome to the Opening of Kultivators un-plugged camp Retopia, and the presentation and reading of the author and midwife Ruth Ehrhardt, South Africa, from her book The little green statue. Introduction by Joanna Sandell, Botkyrka konsthall. Soup by Leila Perikala....

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Land Reform

Gislaveds konsthall                   [AFG_gallery id='83']    

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Urban horse soil action

                Urban horse soil action The project investigated waste management, play, communality and re-introduction of animal power, with the intervention of two working horses, Sarah and Dalton, who joined us perform a...

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Dream animal workshop

                    In the Informal settlement Red Hill, Cape Town. [AFG_gallery id='79'] We did a workshop with kids from the area, asking them to imagine and draw animals from their dreams. [AFG_gallery id='80']...

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Chicken coop intervention at !Khwa ttu

Kultivator works one day at !Khwa ttu, the San Education and Culture Centre, 70 km north-west of Cape Town             [AFG_gallery id='78'] In cooperation with  Botkyrka konsthall, with support from   

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Context in Flux: workshop

Context in flux symposium 2 Visby The Swedish Exhibition Agency, Baltic Art Center, Nida Art Colony and Art Lab Gnesta collaborate to produce the second symposium for invited participants.  Galleri Syster, Kultivator, GKU, Livia Pancu. The aim is to develop tools...

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Urban Horse Soil Action step 1

Kultivator  at  a residence at Astrid Noacks atelier: http://astrid-noack.dk/english. In April 2014, Kultivator wants to build a warm-compost adjacent to the ANA in Copenhagen. The compost will be designed as a possible meeting place for people in the...

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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...

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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...

Glupsk

We exhibited at Glupsk på Dalsland at Not Quite. And tried to make an apple press with Karl Hallberg. [AFG_gallery id='73']    

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Barn Party

                    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...

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Elder’s Hill

Elder’s Hill is a collaborative project by M12 (USA) and Kultivator (SE), made site-specifically in
Öland Sweden. 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.

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The Bloomshed

A bike shed with a green roof. In cooperation with Brett Alton Bloom, Bonnie Fortune and Trish Roan more info on this great site "The Mythological Quarter"               [AFG_gallery id='69']   With thanks to Trish...

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Digital culture/Friendfarm workshop

http://cumuluskalmar2013.org/workshop/digitalculture Workshop leader: Robert Ek 6 and 7 June 08.30 Bus from Kalmar Theatre to Dyestad on Öland 09.00-15.00 Workshop, coffee break and lunch included 15.00 Bus back to Kalmar Theatre. Adress: Dyestad, Bygata 7,...

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Gran’s University with M12

A cooperation with M12 (http://m12studio.org/) Last Chance, Colorado and Dyestad, Sweden Gran’s University is an artwork inspired by Mrs. Vendana Shiva who in 2003 started the Grandmothers University in Navdanya, North India. The aim of the Grandmothers...

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Composted mind

Jana Fröberg has spent this spring with Kultivator, working out compost and cultivation plans. She has studied art as well as gardening. In a close collaboration between human and microorganisms, materials can slowly be processed into something very valuable....

Friendfarm

Friendfarm

see the site for more info  http://www.friendfarm.org/blog/ Friend connections between farms Micro-cooperations for the global cultural Future of the rural! The new multinationals As a visionary, critical project Friendfarm want to question the structures of...

Cartographies Of Hope

Cartographies Of Hope

we were one of the exhibitors of Cartographies Of Hope: Change Narratives http://www.dox.cz/en/     "It's not the story of the battle; it's the battle of the story!" Patrick Reinsborough In the last few years we have witnessed how the...

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Guerilla composting, Feed-back Belgrade

Belgrade Artfair On the stone planet Earth, a layer has been added since the beginning of life, 3.9 billion 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....