myvillages.org
27 - 30 Oct 2011
myvillages.org - Vorratskammer - Bauchladen 2011 © myvillages.org
MYVILLAGES.ORG
27 - 30 October, 2011
The countryside as a place for and of cultural production is the starting point for artists’ initiative myvillages.org. Since 2003, Kathrin Böhm (GER/UK), Wapke Feenstra (NL) and Antje Schiffers (GER) have focused on the village as a source of knowledge in contemporary art. It is not entirely coincidental that all three artists grew up in small farming villages. With a variety of projects, myvillages.org aims to bring the countryside as a place of cultural production into the discussion of contemporary art. Thus, the International Village Shop, where village products are tasted, drunk and sold, has already appeared on the Lüneburger Heide and in Tate Britain. For the festival Über Lebenskunst in Berlin, they worked for a year on Vorratskammer (Larder), in which a larder was stocked with produce from farmers, breweries and producers from the immediate area. Last summer, visitors to the Haus der Kulturen der Welt were invited to consume the end result of preserved food, freshly harvested hydro lettuce, specially brewed drinks and slaughtered animals.
In TENT, myvillages.org makes its first presentation for a Dutch public. From 27 to 30 October, myvillages.org presents an exhibition in TENT and a programme of events in which they amplify on their recent projects. In the International Village Shop you can buy village produce from their European network. In Rotterdam this is supplemented with food products from local farmers. Various films and videos depict rural life and the origins of ‘Village Food’.
27 - 30 October, 2011
The countryside as a place for and of cultural production is the starting point for artists’ initiative myvillages.org. Since 2003, Kathrin Böhm (GER/UK), Wapke Feenstra (NL) and Antje Schiffers (GER) have focused on the village as a source of knowledge in contemporary art. It is not entirely coincidental that all three artists grew up in small farming villages. With a variety of projects, myvillages.org aims to bring the countryside as a place of cultural production into the discussion of contemporary art. Thus, the International Village Shop, where village products are tasted, drunk and sold, has already appeared on the Lüneburger Heide and in Tate Britain. For the festival Über Lebenskunst in Berlin, they worked for a year on Vorratskammer (Larder), in which a larder was stocked with produce from farmers, breweries and producers from the immediate area. Last summer, visitors to the Haus der Kulturen der Welt were invited to consume the end result of preserved food, freshly harvested hydro lettuce, specially brewed drinks and slaughtered animals.
In TENT, myvillages.org makes its first presentation for a Dutch public. From 27 to 30 October, myvillages.org presents an exhibition in TENT and a programme of events in which they amplify on their recent projects. In the International Village Shop you can buy village produce from their European network. In Rotterdam this is supplemented with food products from local farmers. Various films and videos depict rural life and the origins of ‘Village Food’.