Agri-care: perspectives on agriculture and art
a three-days gathering and international symposium to discuss questions of land caretaking, agriculture, food production and transformation, orchards, bees and art practices in the frame of the Uncommon Fruits project.
With: Philipp Kolmann, Suzanne Berhnardt, Gregor Božič, Marina Gumzi, Ola Korbanska, Lorena Carras, Jean-Marie Dhur, Rosario Talevi, Erika Mayr, Luigi Coppola & Robida.
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The three-days symposium titled Agri-care gathered artists, farmers, film directors, designers, architects, and curators to share their practices at the intersection of art and agriculture. The gathering enfolded through collective walks alongside the terraces walls hidden in Topolò's messy forest, tea tastings in at the fallen wild cherry tree, presentations and round tables and collective cooking.
We heard stories of beekeeping by Erika Mays, projects on collective work in Serbia by Luigi Coppola in collaboration with Biljana Cirić from What Could Should Curating Do, research on fruit tree culture between Goriška Brda and Japan by Gregor Božič and Marina Gumzi from Nosorogi, and first ideas for recipes and food research between Topolò and Kojsko by Philipp Kolmann and Suzanne Bernhardt.
An open library curated by Lorena Carras and Jean-Marie Dhur was installed in Izba, Robida's collective space: the two book curators and owners of Zabriskie Bookshop in Berlin, a bookshop dedicated to ecologies and nature, selected books on fruits and orchards to further inspire our research for the Uncommon Fruits project.
The second day of the symposium ended with the screening of Stories from the Chestnut Woods by Gregor Božič.
During the last day, open to the public, we gathered in front of Izba for the final remarks and round table guided by Robida and Gregor Božič and Marina Gumzi, while the afternoon was dedicated to the presentation of the book Who is Cooking? Recipes from Izba by Laura Savina and Ola Korbanska.
The symposium Agri-care: perspectives on agriculture and art served to Robida as a moment of exchange and inspiration in view of the two-year project Uncommon Fruits. Besides bringing together the two partners from Uncommon Fruits, Robida and Zavod Cepika (represented by Gregor Božič and Marina Gumzi), it also stimulated wider conversations with practitioners who work on similar research topics.
Photo by Gregor Božič from his orchard Pod skalco (Kojsko).
Agri-care is part of the Uncommon Fruits project and of the Sensing Soil trajectory.
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The Uncommon Fruits project is financed by the European Union under the Small Project Fund GO! 2025 of the Interreg VI-A Italy-Slovenia Program 2021-2027, managed by the EGTC GO.
Il progetto Uncommon Fruits è finanziato dall’Unione europea nell’ambito del Fondo per piccoli progetti GO! 2025 del Programma Interreg VI-A ItaliaSlovenia 2021-2027, gestito dal GECT GO.
Projekt Uncommon Fruits financira Evropska unija iz Sklada za male projekte GO! 2025 Programa Interreg VI-A Italija-Slovenija 2021-2027, ki ga upravlja EZTS GO.
