“Curating the Convivial” for Soil Culture at Create
“Curating the Convivial” for Soil Culture at Create
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Create 为土壤文化“策划欢乐”
DOI:
10.1080/2373566x.2015.1109470
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发表时间:
2015
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影响因子:
0.7
通讯作者:
C. Adams
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作者:
Miche Fabre Lewin;Flora Gathorne;C. Adams
An innovative partnership between the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World (CCANW) and Touchstone collaborations gave rise to Soil Culture at Create in Bristol, UK, during July and August 2015. This summer celebration of soil took place in the Create Centre during Bristol’s year as European Green Capital. Soil Culture at Create featured two exhibitions—Young Shoots curated by CCANW and Dirt Dialogues organized by Alexandra Toland of Soilarts. It also hosted a final residency between the Blue Finger Alliance, a Bristol-based campaign to safeguard high-grade agricultural land, and ourselves. We were engaged by CCANW to coordinate soil-inspired activities to animate the exhibitions. Our response was Soil Saturdays, a diverse program that spanned the eight Saturdays of the exhibitions. The matter of living soil and food was present within the gallery, on the Soil Shrine, as part of activities, and nourishingly and colorfully manifest through freshly prepared food sourced from Bristol and its hinterland. “Curating the convivial” defines an emergent and embodied approach that cultivates food citizenship, a concept that recognizes and deeply engages through food with the ecology of a place and its diverse communities. With limited public funding, our mantra of trust and exchange inspired an atmosphere of enthusiasm, goodwill, faith in the power of imagination, and the sharing of skills and resources, thus strengthening existing networks and promoting resilience. This respect for the “genius loci” and the inhabiting of the ecological self revitalizes a dedication to everyday actions and policymaking that restore and protect healthy soils.