seeds

ecofeminism for an ecosystemic transition

The earth we walk on is the common base of everything: a container of worlds that sustains us humans and non-humans. How can we attend to these worlds from art institutions? What are the processes that we must activate in order for the institution to respond to the current eco-social collapse of which we are a part?

This event is the first of a series of encounters where we will be shaping the work we are carrying out at La Escocesa in relation to the transformation of the institution towards a more sustainable ecosystem.

programme

16.30h - Towards an ecosystemic transition of La Escocesa

First presentation of the internal work process we are carrying out to (re)think the institution and transform its structures and functioning within an ecofeminist and care framework. What is the contact we have with the earth we walk on and with other species that cohabit the ecosystems we occupy in the so-called "art world"? While care, ecology, situated and collaborative processes are already part of our everyday artistic contexts, what is the actual implementation of these ideas? and how do we put theory into practice?

17h Presentation of seed house

Seed House is a project that seeks, on the one hand, to recover, preserve and disseminate the plant diversity of our neighbourhood, and on the other hand, to create new conditions for the dissemination and exchange of knowledge linked to the care of plants and people, and to create a community through seeds.

After the presentation, Aurora Serra Cantí and Francisco Rubio Perera will talk about the Conuco de Les Cabasses, a project of La Fundició focused on sustainable distribution, conscious consumption and the study of migrant agro-ecosystems. Finally, Adrianna Quena will bring us closer to the Venezuelan indigenous conuco and its forms of seed governance. We will understand the conuco as a form of popular and regenerative agro-food management, and as an agro-ecological school of futures.

Finally, we will have a seed exchange open to anyone who wants to participate.

18.30h - Ecofeminist contributions to the care of life and food from Latin America by Silvia Papuccio de Vidal

The talk will address some theoretical contributions and concrete experiences, mainly led by organised women, linked to the defence of food sovereignty and the care of the natural and social goods that sustain life. The main objective of the exhibition is to give visibility to people, ideas and practices that, from this broad territory, confront the harmful impacts of the global agro-food model from eco-feminist and anti-colonialist perspectives. Moderator: Natalia Carminati.

20:30h - Screening of the documentary The Seeds of Vandana Shiva (2021)

How did the daughter of a Himalayan forester become the world's most powerful opponent of Monsanto? This feature-length documentary presents the remarkable life story of Gandhian eco-activist and agro-ecologist Vandana Shiva.

At 18h and 20h there will be a break with snacks and natural drinks from the Sambucus cooperative

bios

Silvia Papuccio de Vidal is an agricultural engineer with a PhD in Natural Resources and Sustainability (ISEC, University of Cordoba, Spain). Master in Agroecology and Sustainable Development (International University of Andalusia, Spain). Master in Social Sciences with mention in Environmental Studies (FLACSO-Ecuador). With extensive experience in the design and management of food projects and policies in Latin America. University lecturer, researcher and ecofeminist activist. Specialist in ecofeminism, gender, environment and agroecology. Author of several publications and audiovisual resources on these topics.

Natalia Carminati studied fine art at The Art Students League of New York and Escola Massana, Barcelona. Her work focuses on the development of multidisciplinary projects that explore the nature of perception and the way we decode our environment. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions at Arts Santa Mònica (Barcelona), Ostavinska Galerija (Belgrade), Kovent Zero (Berga), Fabra i Coats (Barcelona), Tangent Projects (Barcelona) and Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (Germany) among others.

Aurora Serra Cantí is an agronomist with a social vocation, and has been involved in nature and agriculture since she was a child. She has moved from urban agriculture to community composting, from Anoia to the African continent. She works with LaFundició on the project El conuco de Les Cabasses, collaborates with Tarpuna and is an activist in Ruralitzem and Voices for Food Sovereignty.

Francisco Rubio Perera is a founding member of LaFundició, a cooperative created in 2006 that promotes collective processes of knowledge construction, cultural practices and forms of relationship, understood as resources for common use and as "controversial" and situated activities. LaFundició experiments with collective, democratic and cross-border ways of relating to each other and of constructing and circulating culture and knowledge.

Adrianna Szojda is a researcher, eco-farmer, partner of La Escocesa. She investigates human and non-human interrelationships, searching for possible ways of interspecies communication through plurisensoriality and alternative epistemologies. Her field of interest encompasses ecofeminist education, food sovereignty and justice, regenerative practices and new ways of creating collectivities, based on empathy, care and collaboration.

Adrianna Quena planted, ate and defended for decades peasant and indigenous varieties of maize, caraotas and auyamas (here, beans and pumpkins) in the mountains of the Venezuelan Caribbean. Now he grows, eats and breeds local varieties of tomato and pumpkin at the foot of Montserrat. From Abundancia Vulgaris, Semillas del Pueblo and Eixarcolant, he questions food and diasporic agriculture, situated cultural practices in movement, in search of the urgent horizon of plural food sovereignties. Her practice is based on action-research in political agro-ecology, cinematic play and relational and community art.