seeds: memories and metaphors of a collective body

The project proposes how the mechanisms of colonization are revealed in the hegemonic agro-food model, imposing dominant plant species that act displacing local species and varieties. These de-territorialization movements not only marginalize seeds and plant crops, but also the memory and knowledge of communities working in network with the territory and its particular environmental conditions. In this way, free and biodiverse seeds with their intrinsic capacity to regenerate life, are stripped of their lands; in which monocultures of sterile seeds grow and patented by chemical companies-pharmaceutical companies that subject nature to their criteria of productivity and economic performance.

In collaboration with projects that work for food sovereignty, the proposal is formed by a living installation of forgotten wildlife -from a gastronomic perspective- that invites us to connect with the knowledge and flavors of the earth. The exhibition will begin and close with two performative events on 15 and 18 November.

Programme

Wednesday 15th November
19:00h

Toast of oil and preservatives
Opening performance.

Saturday 18th November
13:30h

Guided mindfulness digestion
Performance Artefacte. Closing of the exhibition.

(Limited seating capacity. Book at info@homesession.org)

Within the framework of the exhibition "Words and Psychomagic: Memories and metaphors of a collective body" it is proposed to carry out a performative action in which the participating public will form a single collective body as a diner. United by means of a canvas that will reveal only the heads of the diners, the participants will be the same double table, diner, performer. The food will be laid out on the stove cloth, which the participants will be able to eat using only their nose and mouth.
The sounds produced by mouth and nose will be amplified to create a collective sound composition of the diner's body.

bio

Natalia Carminati (Buenos Aires, 1982) is a visual artist and researcher.
The conceptual development of his practice is oriented towards the critical study of contemporary culture, post-colonial theory, biotechnology and food sovereignty. His projects are materialised in the creation of multisensorial devices that integrate video, sound experimentation, video games, painting, installation and performance.

Her projects are materialised in the creation of multisensorial devices that integrate video, sound experimentation, video game, painting, installation and performance.
She has participated in exhibitions and performances at MACBA, Centre d'Arts Santa Mònica, Hybrid Fair (Madrid), Ostavinska Galerija (Belgrade) and Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (Germany), among others.

She is currently working as an artist in residence at La Escocesa and Centre d'Arts Santa Mònica. He is also part of the current board of PAAC.