Feeding the backyard

Feeding the backyard

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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 with installations and reflections of the history, the present, and the possible future of the compound. All material used is edible, and found in the local supermarkets and markets in the neighbourhood. The work is presented for the public in the form of a dinner party in the backyard on Saturday the 16;th of May. The dinner guests are picked up from around the area with horse and carriage. The horses are also invited to join the meal, as guests of honor, with special sculptural dishes made for them.

 

 

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Jag och djuret

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.

 

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

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

geophagia

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.
 
curated by Pontus Raud
 
 
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Castelvenere – a nicer version of home

Castelvenere – a nicer version of home

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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.
 

 

Castelvenere
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Castelvenere Winefarm
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Workshop
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Carnival
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photo manipulations
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