Lunch with cows

Lunch with cows

Lunch with cows
28th August in Tammenpää milk farm
in western coast of Finland.
The framework of the event is 
Halikonlahti Green Art -project,
an initiative of artist and curator
Tuula Nikulainen and Sunny Future association.
The exhibition, called Food Chains,
will be opened at Salo Art Museum
next Friday, 9th September.
It is curated by Tuula Nikulainen
and Ulla Taipale. More information
about the exhibition here.

photos:
Sami Perttilä, AndreaVanuchhi

Since almost ten thousand years now, we live very close to each other, and has indeed affected each others lives and beings a great deal. Our relation has been practical and very close physical, but we have not yet really grown into exchanging a lot of thoughts, or even trying to meet at an intellectual level. This informal lunch meeting intends to be a small start of a more mature and interesting way of being together. We have no prepared speakers, no translators or list of topics that must be discussed, but! Questions about our future relation, and sustainable survival may come up!

film

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The Camp

The Camp

WORKSHOP ”The camp”

-A cross cultural workshop in rum46 with the artist groups from the first Goings On
– a seminar organized by Cecilia Andersson that took place in 98weeks project space in Beirut Lebanon
from the 24-27 June 2010.
Goings On participants were: Cecilia Andersson / werkprojects
(Sweden), 98weeks project space Mirene Arsanios (Lebanon), Iz Östat / cura bodrum residency
(Turkey), Mohamed Allam / Medrar (Egypt), Luba Kuzovnikova / Pikene på Broen (Norway), Malin &
Mathieu Vrijman / Kultivator (Sweden), Thorbjørn Reuter Christiansen / rum46 (Denmark), Alicia
Jimenez / El Hervidero (Spain), Omar Khoury / Samandal (Lebanon), Khaled Sedkis / Interruptions
(Jordan). (See attachment from Goings On in Beirut and the brief CV of the participants)

Description:
Workshop ”The camp” will take place in rum46 from arrival of the artists on 9.8.2011 until their
departures on the 17.8.2011. The aim is to follow up on the participant’s art practices and to know
each other better.
We want to develop “a factory of ideas”, which will be a cross-cultural collective happening doing the
workshop. Participants will be asked to bring “materials” from their cultural background; this
“material” will be used in shaping the process. In the evenings, during the workshop in rum46, there
will also be public presentations from the different groups and social dinner parties. Together the
artists will make a collective exhibition that will be shown in rum46. This exhibition will become the
rum46´s summer exhibition and will be shown until the end of August 2011.

After the workshop,
from the 13.8.2011 to 17.8.2011, the participants will visit the artist group Kultivators farm on Öland
in Sweden and learn about the fusion of agriculture and art.
 

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m.a.r.i.n

m.a.r.i.n

We hosted part of Camp 5 organised by

M.A.R.I.N.: http://marin.cc/
facilitates research and collaboration between arts and sciences
with a focus on environmental computing and marine ecologies.
m.a.r.i.n blog: http://camp.marin.cc/

Links to some of  the works made at our farm

http://boskoi.org/reports/view/773

http://ecoarte.info/marinetime/category/trips/sweden/

http://niki.xarch.at/wordpress/?p=251762905

http://www.memelab.ca/kultivator-vegetables-art/    

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Imagine Farm

Imagine Farm

Århus kunstbygning July 2 – August 17 2011

    

 

Info

slidesimagine

Instruction video

digital version of exhibition

Imagine farm – ground for cultivating thoughts

exhibition concept for summer exhibition at Århus Kunstbygning by Kultivator

Much of today’s focus is laying on what kind of future we don’t want, or are afraid of… On what we must not do, or must not have. The critical analysis of what is destructive, non sustainable systems occupies great space in relation to the creative imagination of the sustainable, pleasant and wanted ones. The desired future must be imagined in order to be possible.

To meet this need, Kultivator and Århus kunstbygning will settle the Imagine farm, for and by children. A farm is an area designated to growth and cultivation, in this case of imaginations of future systems to live.

In the basement of Århus Kunstbyggning, Kultivator will build up the Imagine farm. It will serve as a working space where desired future systems for food production, social work, energy production, waste management, housing, etc. are visualized and tested. The material for this is imagined and described by children, and represented in objects and animated film sequences by the artists and farmers of Kultivator. This translation of the children´s imagination into objects and films constitutes the first step in the settling of Imagine farm.

Step Two is the use of the farm, when visiting children (and parents) are asked to interact with the systems and rearrange them, try other ways, and document their imagined scenarios. The Imagine farm will thus be in constant change, and photos and texts of arrangements made along the way will be a growing collection of imagined futures. Here we will try to use a technology to let visitors file their photos and written comments into small animations, so that new, other films appear. Alternatively, the photos and text will be printed and made accessible to visitors in the exhibition. Or both.

Since all objects can and will be moved around, and to stress the representative character of the objects, the material we use will be papier mache´. This is a low cost, bio degradable material that is light to handle and fairly easily breaks. It is also a material and technique that is well – known for most children. No new objects will be made within the exhibition, but we will set up a repair workshop, where repairs and small adjustments can be made to the objects that are already there. To repair broken objects is another, meaningful way to interact in Imagine farm.

One event/workshop will be held, where the Imagine farm receives grown up users; preferably local politicians, or other groups that should be particularly interested in the view and interests of children for future society. The invited grown ups can take part of the information collected, and self use the farm to visualize and test thoughts.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

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Radical art practises

Radical art practises

RADICAL ART PRACTISES
GALLERI 21, MALMÖ
7/5 – 29/5 – 2011
YNKB (DK) – THE LEARNING SITE, (DK) & (S) – TEMPORARY SERVICES, BRETT BLOOM & BONNIE FORTUNE (US) – SARAH LEWISON (US) – KULTIVATOR (S) – NANCE KLEHM (US) – OUTDOOR LIBRARY (S) & SPECIAL GUEST: GODNATTSAGOR INIFRÅN, MALMÖ CITY LIBRARY (S)
 
RADICAL ART PRACTISES is a project about artists working with art practises at prisons, schools, public spaces and war zones. Radical Art Practises wants to show unusual practises used in contemporary art context, and artists directly acting in processes in societies and collaboration with ethical purposes. Artists within this field works crossover, crossing traditional borders of collaborations and professions. Radical Art Practises has a purpose to connect art practises to The Rio-convention and Agenda 21, the goals to relate artists work with collective action for a sustainable society on social/cultural, environmental and economical level.
International artist/ groups from US, Denmark and Sweden are invited to present their activities and projects. Radical Art Practices is built on participation and dialogue.
Radical Art Practises is an artist-run project by OUTDOOR LIBRARY, Christel Lundberg, in collaboration with Galleri 21, an artist run gallery.
Supported by: Statens Konstråd, Region Skåne, Malmö Stad, Roos Neon & Mediaverkstaden Skåne

more info,… Svenska,

 


 

 

Crosscultural Nomadic Cheese nr 2

Crosscultural Nomadic Cheese nr 2

Supermarket artfair 2011, Kulturhuset, Stockholm

A Cross cultural Nomadic Cheese in our boot at Supermarket. 10 litre of milk will be brought from Kultivators farm om Öland, and during the art fair it will be processed into à cheese. This cheese is the second one in à series of cheese made in cultural institutions. Micro cultures in the non- pasteurised milk from the farm will  react and developed together with the collective cultures from artist – run  gallery's and the great culture of Stockholms Kulturhuset, for à cheese with strong and complex taste.

 

 

 

 

 

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