[-empyre-] March 2016: FOOD/TECH/ART

[Marina Zurkow]

Hi all,

Marina Zurkow here - I’m working with Stefani Bardin on the Food & the City working group at IPK <https://ipk.nyu.edu/ipk-working-groups/foodandthecity>  and share her long-term interest in connecting people, projects and systems.

(I’m a media and sometimes food-based artist. You can see some of my work here <http://o-matic.com/> and here <http://www.chron.com/entertainment/arts-theater/article/Artist-brings-complex-issues-to-the-table-5358323.php> and here <http://www.bitforms.com/exhibitions/zurkow-2016>.

I am personally interested in the question of how artists (including myself) influence participants, with meaningful and material experiences that might have some lasting effects in day-to-day decisions.

I just wanted to add some links, and ask some questions.

First, questions:
We are hoping empyre-ites might know of analogous, layered maps that activate participants by sharing not only projects they can partake in, but also unpack the layers of a complex system - like food system.

How do artists you know invite participation and systems thinking?

Second, some projects I find exemplary and exciting:

Fernando García-Dory
Spanish artist, activist, and agroecologist who explores the relationship between contemporary culture and the natural world in his work. He investigates the myriad impacts of post-industrial capitalism upon rural communities and landscapes. Driven by a belief that art must be “proactive, not just reactive action,” García-Dory has become a leader in the field of socially engaged art and a pioneer of a new field connecting art and agroecology. Beginning with his 2004 project, The Shepherd’s School, in the Spanish Pyrenees, García-Dory has engaged one of the world’s most underrepresented and—at a population of an estimated 250 million—widespread communities: pastoralist and nomadic peoples. In 2007, the artist organized a conference that brought together two hundred representatives of nomadic and transhumant pastoralist communities from forty-four different countries. He had first intended the project to serve as a platform for discussion and “mutual recognition” between these groups. It quickly became much more: García-Dory’s gathering resulted in the creation of the World Alliance of Mobile Indigenous Pastoralists (WAMIP), a global organization that provides unprecedented representation and advocacy for these communities on an international scale.
(from the Creative Time web site)

Conflict Kitchen
http://conflictkitchen.org/ <http://conflictkitchen.org/>
Serves food from countries with which the united states is in conflict
"our current focus is on the food, culture and politics of Iran"


Kate Rich et al, feral Trade Courier
http://www.feraltrade.org/cgi-bin/courier/courier.pl <http://www.feraltrade.org/cgi-bin/courier/courier.pl>
The Feral Trade Courier is a live shipping database for a freight network running outside commercial systems. The database offers dedicated tracking of feral trade products in circulation, archives every shipment and generates freight documents on the fly.



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