Come to the kickoff of the Life & Art series on 19 December during Life & Art 1: TransAgriculture, 10:00am–5:30pm.
Lectures and action with guests including:
Prof. René Boomkens, cultural philosopher / Bruce Sterling, author / Natalie Jeremijenko, avant-gardening / Richard Reynolds, guerrilla gardener / Michiko Nitta, Extreme Green Guerrilla
Life & Art 1: TransAgriculture
Banks are falling, the temperature is rising, the food in our supermarkets is expensive and can't even be trusted. We are witnessing the bankruptcy of industrialized agriculture and the notion that we can control nature, culture and society. But think of all the new opportunities this creates for artists! The processes by which we sustain and shape our lives simply can’t be controlled from the top down: they work from the bottom up. All modest activities at the micro scale interact and coalesce into the macro systems by which our world is organized. Messy actions downstream lead to solid connections upstream.
This new bottom-up paradigm of interactivity, emergence and complexity is now becoming vitally important in agriculture as well. It strongly informs environmental questions and green thinking. Urban agriculture, homegrown fashion, advanced bioart and guerrilla gardening are some of the themes arising. Other tools for gaining access to the self-organization of life are genetic technology and organic growing. In our research program Life & Art 1: TransAgriculture, we use today's rapidly transforming agriculture as the starter engine – in a technological, artistic, social, cultural, political, economic and gastronomic sense – to challenge artists to harness the full potential of things to come.
Grow your own future!
Location: V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam
19 December
10:00am–5:30pm
Admission:
Full program including lunch: €20.00 €15.00
Program without lunch: €15.00 €10.00
Reservations:
E: v2@v2.nl
T: +31-10-206-7272
For more information please contact Alex Adriaansens:
E: alex@v2.nl
This event will be streamed live at live.v2.nl.
www.v2.nl