https://asasonjasdotter.info Asa Sonjasdotter Wed, 25 Aug 2021 10:29:20 +0000 https://asasonjasdotter.info en https://asasonjasdotter.info/Home-Image-Scroll Thu, 22 Jul 2021 11:59:28 +0000 Asa Sonjasdotter https://asasonjasdotter.info/Home-Image-Scroll <img width="3280" height="2221" width_o="3280" height_o="2221" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8255a562314925e4c71f983b321a8e013bfd1ee4aebce3f22fb0474ea7e0906b/IMG_1102cropped.jpg" data-mid="240394532" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8255a562314925e4c71f983b321a8e013bfd1ee4aebce3f22fb0474ea7e0906b/IMG_1102cropped.jpg" /><img width="2518" height="1754" width_o="2518" height_o="1754" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d46d20e0aca51bc6890771e9eaf1cfdb338a0851029a2f2f2b65cdbedeb2f4fc/Screenshot-2025-08-10-at-09.43.51.png" data-mid="236871290" border="0" 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Published by Archive Books, Berlin and Project Arts Center, Dublin. 2020.&lt;http://www.archivejournal.org/current-issue/&gt; <img width="2448" height="3264" width_o="2448" height_o="3264" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/253a9ef31431ead7765ecb5d2da9431d9804fd1c5ffebffb93f583fafd041101/IMG_2185_.jpg" data-mid="117234927" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/253a9ef31431ead7765ecb5d2da9431d9804fd1c5ffebffb93f583fafd041101/IMG_2185_.jpg" /> The processual research- and publishing project Peace with the Earth Tracing Agricultural Memory – Refiguring Practice was supported and hosted by various institutions and organisations including: The Irish Seed Savers Association, Scarriff; The National Museum of Country Life, Turlough; The UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin; National College of Art and Design (NCAD), Dublin; An Taisce, The National Trust for Ireland; Environmental Education Unit (Green Flag Award Scheme); Goldsmiths, The University of London; and Archive, Berlin. The publication and pthe postponed exhibition project was funded by The Swedish Arts Grants Committee. <img width="5890" height="3750" width_o="5890" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/47ed6b34269834a2fdeb633816fa7c7d2355880b8edc72082c34b7631ffdd7dd/FINAL-Archive-Journal-issue-9-2-copy.jpg" data-mid="117234928" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/47ed6b34269834a2fdeb633816fa7c7d2355880b8edc72082c34b7631ffdd7dd/FINAL-Archive-Journal-issue-9-2-copy.jpg" /> <img width="5859" height="3848" width_o="5859" height_o="3848" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1aad3b8736fafa31e6b2b7f5d8b7a9aa3cacb83d352febb19736b7b9d38ba21f/FINAL-Archive-Journal-issue-9-3-copy.jpg" data-mid="117234929" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1aad3b8736fafa31e6b2b7f5d8b7a9aa3cacb83d352febb19736b7b9d38ba21f/FINAL-Archive-Journal-issue-9-3-copy.jpg" /> <img width="5786" height="3848" width_o="5786" height_o="3848" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/70013e8399da98f1e9f0c96dde829e10b9e667648349eb8035608e3a04856cc2/FINAL-Archive-Journal-issue-9-4-copy.jpg" data-mid="117234930" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/70013e8399da98f1e9f0c96dde829e10b9e667648349eb8035608e3a04856cc2/FINAL-Archive-Journal-issue-9-4-copy.jpg" /> An exhibition of the research and cultivation project presented in this journal, enquiring small scale and non-extractive farming methods, was postponed due to the escalation of Covid-19 contamination. The exhibition was planned to open April 1, 2020, at the Project Arts Centre (PAC) in Dublin, Ireland. The emergence of Covid-19 is not an isolated incident. Exploitive land use, large-scale animal production and monoculture farming causes great disturbances in the web of organic life, where the increased risk for epidemics is only one of several severe effects. Industrial food production and further multinational, corporative, and extractive activities in habitats is directly linked to outbreaks of dangerous diseases, of which the covid-19 is one of several examples. The epidemic viruses transmit from wildlife as natural habitats decline, as well as they emerge from large-scale animal production. The distribution of this journal, together with the distribution of kale varieties that are farm-bred and thus have maintained their genetic diversity and capacity to adapt to shifted habitat conditions, did however take place as planned. Seeds of the kales presented on page 12 in this journal can be ordered over the Irish Seed Savers’ website. A seed sharing session with talks by Joanne Newton, seed curator at the Irish Seed Savers, and R. E. Murphy, plant scientist and expert in Irish cabbage varieties, will be carried out as a pod cast, to be announced over the PAC website, among other places. For more information on viruses and agrobusiness, and from which the citation in red colour on page one is borrowed: Rob Wallace. Big Farms Make Big Flu: Dispatches on influenza, Agribusiness, and the Nature of Science. NUY Press, 2016. https://asasonjasdotter.info/Tracing-Agricultural-Memory Thu, 22 Jul 2021 13:11:35 +0000 Asa Sonjasdotter https://asasonjasdotter.info/Tracing-Agricultural-Memory Peace with the Earth Tracing Agricultural Memory – Refiguring Practice By Åsa Sonjasdotter Edited by Ros Gray Published by Archive Books in 2019 The artistic,&nbsp;micro-historical enquiry presented in this book responds to the call, made by two Swedish suffragettes and peace activists Elisabeth Tamm (1880–1958) and Elin Wägner (1882–1949) in their pamphlet Fred med Jorden (Peace with the Earth, 1940). Grounded in research into agricultural practices on the Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea, the quotations, documents and photographs of dead and living matter presented in the book, testify to ways of living off the land prior, during and after land-reforms and industrialisation processes. The assemblages sketch out the nurturing environments of three relict crops cultivated from prehistoric times until the present day.&nbsp; The research presented, reveals inconsistencies in historical narratives regarding the ‘progress’ of modern agriculture. From these cracks and gaps, possibilities for cultivation systems that nurture the soil and its habitat are opened up, enabling humans to actually live in peace with the Earth. <img width="1536" height="1536" width_o="1536" height_o="1536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/de1c02c7b28de6274d8d18780bc892780a46a43c997375da767f05af945fe78c/zabriskie_asa_Sonjasdotter_peace_with_the_earth-1-1536x1536.jpg" data-mid="117195934" border="0" data-scale="83" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/de1c02c7b28de6274d8d18780bc892780a46a43c997375da767f05af945fe78c/zabriskie_asa_Sonjasdotter_peace_with_the_earth-1-1536x1536.jpg" /> <img width="700" height="700" width_o="700" height_o="700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/86f2b3fed01182d8a03217eec4e3b037d4852e4f312144c5e8be6decdfea6a15/zabriskie_asa-Sonjasdotter_peace_with_the_earth-1-700x700.jpg" data-mid="117195948" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/700/i/86f2b3fed01182d8a03217eec4e3b037d4852e4f312144c5e8be6decdfea6a15/zabriskie_asa-Sonjasdotter_peace_with_the_earth-1-700x700.jpg" /> <img width="1536" height="1536" width_o="1536" height_o="1536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3ca7e4a37e13f25d86b14245b7cf8b4608457d11828132afc0560a4d625b3475/zabriskie_asa_Sonjasdotter_peace_with_the_earth-6-1536x1536.jpg" data-mid="117195928" border="0" data-scale="83" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3ca7e4a37e13f25d86b14245b7cf8b4608457d11828132afc0560a4d625b3475/zabriskie_asa_Sonjasdotter_peace_with_the_earth-6-1536x1536.jpg" /> <img width="1536" height="1536" width_o="1536" height_o="1536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/60a493971db5ac97d0b4b61d77e20b8a80af2f60ac0864e99db133684a07bce0/zabriskie_asa_Sonjasdotter_peace_with_the_earth-4-1536x1536.jpg" data-mid="117195927" border="0" data-scale="83" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/60a493971db5ac97d0b4b61d77e20b8a80af2f60ac0864e99db133684a07bce0/zabriskie_asa_Sonjasdotter_peace_with_the_earth-4-1536x1536.jpg" /> Graphic design by Konst &amp; Teknik Translation from Swedish to English by Katarina Trodden and Kathy Gow Sjöblom English 176 pages ISBN 978-3-948212-17-9 Tracing agricultural memory – Refiguring practiceAn introduction by Åsa Sonjasdotter: The quotations, documents, photographs, and dead and living matter presented in the following chapters testify to ways of living off the land. These objects raise questions about the methods humans use to feed themselves. Built as assemblages, the chapters sketch out scenarios of stories that are not entirely filled out. Instead, they offer possibilities for various readings and re-readings. The objects function as buoys in a large spacetime, creating potential routes to further knowledge. Most of these materials were found on Gotland, an island located in the Baltic Sea in southeast Scandinavia. Because of its location in the middle of a large body of water, things have happened at a different pace here compared to the mainland. Due to its distant location and different pace, Gotland’s inhabitants are not quick to dismiss unfashionable knowledge. This makes it a good place to search for traces in time. The farming regions of southern Scandinavia, to which Gotland both belongs and is separate from, are home to several inventions that have come to dominate modern agriculture. One such invention is the harnessing of airborne nitrogen for the production of synthetic fertiliser. Another is the systematisation of ‘pure-line’ plant breeding, which has led to the cloned monoculture farming landscapes that continue to spread across the world. The Swedish Seed Association (Sveriges utsädesförening), later Svalöv AB, was one of the earliest industrial producers of standardised seeds in Europe. It was incorporated into the German BASF, which is now the world’s largest chemical manufacturer. The global company Yara, previously Norsk Hydro, was the first corporation to produce synthetic fertiliser. I grew up in this epicentre of agribusiness expansion – partially on a smaller island called Ven, near the coastline – and experienced at close hand how it affected the people and the land. When machinery and production were scaled up after the Second World War, many smallholdings were dissolved and their land was incorporated into larger farms. As deeper ploughs merged and levelled the fields, older knowledge, vocabularies, and social webs were literally wiped out, making farmers vulnerable to the profit-driven system of agribusiness. The title of the project Peace with the Earth refers to a pamphlet published by two Swedish suffragettes and peace activists in 1940, six months after the eruption of the Second World War. Elisabeth Tamm (1880–1958) served as one of the first women in parliament and was an organic farmer. Elin Wägner (1882–1949) worked as a writer and activist on matters of women’s rights, peace, and ecology, and was a member of the Swedish Academy. The observations and proposals in the pamphlet were based on ‘long and applied experience of traditional and modern agricultural practices and their effect on the land, livestock, and, ultimately, humans.’ Tamm and Wägner’s sharp analysis of industrial farming predicted many of the issues that have become apparent today, including soil erosion, water scarcity, as well as food and stress related health issues. The findings of my research at the Museum of Gotland made me recall Tamm and Wägner’s pamphlet, which I stumbled upon in a public library many years ago. It’s not immediately easy to pin down the position from which the authors speak. Tamm and Wägner assert the importance of the role of women, whose rights are dismissed in society. However, their critique cannot be narrowed down to essentialist categories. Their discussion of patriarchy is complex, comprehensive, and includes spheres that extend beyond the category of the human. Writing at the outbreak of the Second World War, Tamm and Wägner state that ‘peace on Earth and a new and peaceful relationship with the Earth are inseparable.’ The authors come to the conclusion that ‘it is not possible to work on separate solutions to problems associated with peace, land distribution, healthcare, the population, or education. Each must be considered in relation to humankind’s affinity with the Earth; with life and the world around us. This involves a paradigm shift and all that it entails in terms of social change.’ At the time of its publication, Tamm and Wägner’s pamphlet was, for the most part, perceived as retrogressive. Today it is clear that the authors’ critique was correct. Industrial agriculture has become one of the major sources for climate collapse, species extinction, and epidemic illnesses. The question of how to live off the land has become an issue everyone must grapple with, whether they like it or not. Located between traditional and modern knowledge, Tamm and Wägner’s analysis offers a compass. The introductory chapter of Peace with the Earth is presented at the end of this publication. An English version of the entire pamphlet will be published by Archive Books in the coming year. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; * When researching the deeper history of agriculture in northern Europe, one soon becomes aware of the spacetime horizon that emerged with the retraction of the ice sheet that had covered the northern part of the globe for almost 100,000 years. In Europe, the sheet extended from the Arctic to southern Ireland, Great Britain, Scandinavia, Finland, northwest Russia, and northern Germany. When the ice began to recede some 10,000 to 13,000 years ago, species from neighbouring regions were able to migrate into the landscape that was laid bare. This major event set a spacetime horizon for the life that would re-emerge here. It is distinct from the surrounding landscape, whose accumulated soil memory – both non-cultivated and cultivated – runs far deeper. Chapter one of this book, Traces of emmer wheat in wooden ard furrows, begins with a description of 6,000-year-old remains of grazing and woodland clearing: the first traces of human impact on nature after the ice receded. Trees were cut down and burnt to make space for arable land in the large forests that thrived in the rich red soil that had accumulated since the land was re-inhabited. This chapter presents a story of emmer wheat, which is among the first known crops to be grown on Gotland. Both the plant and the method for its cultivation came to the island during the Early Neolithic Period (3900–3300 BCE). The cultivation of emmer had migrated through Europe from Mesopotamia, where it had been domesticated about 7,000 years earlier. The grain has remained in cultivation until the present day, which is unique in Scandinavia. This early form of agriculture would, however, slowly deplete the soil. When the climate grew colder and wetter around 3500 BCE, soil depletion was rendered irreversible. In areas that had been exposed to farming, red soils were permanently lost. Previously thriving hardwood forests of oak, elm, alder, lime, and ash were replaced with the less nutrient-demanding beech, a forest that is still characteristic for the region. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; * Archaeological findings indicate that farming was re-estab-
lished around permanent settlements surrounded by enclos-
ed inner fields for cultivation and open outer fields and forests for cattle grazing. This method of farming, in place by about 1000–500 BCE, would prove to be extremely durable, lasting almost 1,000 years. It may have continued much longer had it not been for the extensive and continuous extraction of organic matter in the form of in-kind taxations that farmers had to pay to landlords, the Church, and the Crown. Records in real estate registers show that taxes were directly or indirectly taken from the harvest of the land and commonly consisted of grain, butter, or dried meat; goods that were relatively easy to store. Remnants of the transformations caused by this systematised extraction are presented in chapter two, Traces of potatoes in iron plough furrows. Sweden’s first land taxation law was passed in 1350. Taxes increased as the state apparatus expanded. In times of war, extra taxes were often added as in-kind levies to warlords and soldiers. In the mid-1600s, the soil in farmers’ cowsheds was declared krono regale, a property belonging solely to the Crown. Special staff travelled to farms around the country and collected the urine-saturated soil, from which saltpetre, a core ingredient in gunpowder, was boiled. Archived lists of Royal tax income from saltpetre extractors registered in Gotland bear witness to this practice. Extraction for the establishment of the state apparatus and the army brought about what political theorist Karl Marx described as the primitive accumulation of capital: a redistribution of surplus to society’s powerful classes. This was taken not only from farmers, but from entire farming habitats. It came to cause irreversible damage to the ecosystems’ nutrient flows, which Marx described as an irreparable rift. Over centuries, farm fields and surrounding grasslands became depleted. In the 1800s, this led to a collapse of the ecosystem and to social revolt. In central Europe, the breakdown occurred several centuries earlier. Feminist scholar Silvia Federici suggests that the many peasant uprisings in Europe in the 1600s can be understood as protests by farmers who experienced how the ongoing, accelerated extraction of farmland habitats destroyed their capacity to support the forms of life that had evolved there. Soil depletion became a much-debated topic in central Europe, Ireland, and the United Kingdom in the 1800s. The ‘remedy’ that was implemented did not, however, lead to a halt in extraction. Instead, it had the opposite effect. The response to the crisis involved the introduction of new technologies such as the invention of an iron plough that could cut deeper trenches into the soil and turn the furrows. This made it possible to open new land to farming. Meadows, moorland habitats, and other meagre soils were subsequently submitted to the iron plough. The collapse of the European eco-social system escalated the appropriation of land for farming. This included the establishment of plantations on overseas continents. The emergence of potatoes in Europe bears witness to this. The plant came from the Americas in the 1600s, brought as food on the ships of the Atlantic triangular trade. Samples of tubers slowly spread throughout Europe. The early strains that reached Gotland by the mid-1900s are still maintained in gardens and plots, handed down among neighbours and within families. The new crop was often grown on reclaimed land, as it was not yet included in the rotation system and could be cultivated in less fertile soil. In Sweden, land reclamation was combined with the introduction of reforms. Farming villages that had previously held the juridical status of a collectively represented legal body in custody of shared land were transformed into clusters of individual property owners. Land was reorganised for each farmer, who became the singular owner of a strictly mapped and measured portion of the land to which the farm buildings were relocated. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; * There is, however, a part of the history of cultivation in this region that is poorly documented, but has, in recent years, gained increased attention from historians and archaeologists. Chapter three, Traces of turnips in earthworm castings, deals with the role of kitchen gardening in the farming system. In a recent survey of early cadastral maps made in Sweden, agricultural historian Karin Hallgren discusses evidence that kitchen gardening was common and extensive among farmers, especially before the land reforms. In her study, Hallgren surveys historical books on the topic and assembles details that shed light on various practices and approaches. Many different names were used for the kitchen garden in primary sources. It was called the kale patch, kale garden, kale bed, kale field, herb patch, or herb garden. Cultivars belonging to the Brassica family, such as cabbages, turnips, broccoli, oilseed rape, and mustard, were common plants, although a much larger variety of vegetables were grown. In 1723, the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus listed almost one hundred different vegetables and herbs grown in his parents’ freehold garden, a number that resembles other sources. It is believed that many garden plants were introduced to Scandinavia from southern Europe through the monasteries that were established beginning in the 1200s. However, details regarding how this transfer occurred have only recently become a topic of research. In a diary from a journey to Gotland in 1741, Linnaeus describes the gentle taste of a local turnip that he names Napum sylvestrem.The third chapter tells the story of this special Gotland turnip, which, in spite of its fame, was abandoned and rendered extinct with the expansion of the sugar- and fodder beet industry. Vegetables don’t store as well as grains, which makes them a less desirable currency for overseas trade. This might explain why kitchen gardens remained unregulated and undocumented by authorities although they were a prime source of food for farming families – especially since much of the grain harvests were used to pay taxes. Several sources indicate that women and children were responsible for the maintenance of the kitchen garden. This might be another reason why scholars in a patriarchal society have overlooked this aspect of the farm system. The Museum of Gotland’s large photographic archive represents several pre-industrial farming tasks. The few images that document kitchen gardens are presented in this chapter; however, you have to look very carefully to spot the women and children in the photographs. One of the small number of Swedish paintings depicting labour in the kitchen garden is also presented here. It shows two people planting kale seedlings in the spring. Access to fertiliser is a crucial aspect of any cultivation system, and cabbage varieties require especially rich soil.How, then, were these kitchen gardens fertilised? Documentation has shown that in the pre-chemical farm system, much of the grain yield was dependent on cattle manure. Some of the historical sources researched by Hallgren provide clues regarding the fertilisation and productivity of kitchen gardens. According to a 1671 note by Johan Risingh, Secretary of the Commercial College of Sweden, manure from dogs, humans, and birds – both wild and domesticated – was considered suitable for the cabbage patch. Carl Carleson, a judge and Member of Parliament, recommended fertilising kitchen gardens with the contents of the latrine. In 1756, he wrote that human excrement was ‘the most powerful of fertilisers’ and that a good housekeeper should ensure that such ‘wonderful balm’ did not go to waste. It possessed a ‘fatty’ quality, he argued, that was effective for both cabbages and herbs. Risingh also stated that a well-tended cabbage patch could yield more food than ten fields of cereals equivalent in size. Unfortunately, there is poor documentation of how common it actually was to use human waste in plant cultivation. A study by antiquarian Gun Westholm of the medieval sewage system in the town of Visby on Gotland reveals that human waste was not returned to the land but was, instead, piped directly into the ocean. Although farmers must have returned their waste to the land some way or other, the general failure to employ human manure seems to be a fatal error. Considering the consequences of soil depletion throughout history, it is astounding that people have neglected to take advantage of the rich and nourishing matter that is produced by their own bodies. Returning composted manure to the soil contributes to a soil habitat in which earthworms thrive. And where earthworms thrive, tilling becomes unnecessary. Earthworms keep the soil smooth. Their digested cast is rich with organic nutrients broken down into components that are easily accessible to microorganisms and plants. In the pamphlet Peace with the Earth, Elin Wägner writes that ‘humans will never succeed in turning subsoil into topsoil or replicating the earthworm’s toil.’ Using italics for emphasis, Wägner continues: ‘Even if you forced citizens to work without interruption from the cradle to the grave, their efforts could never replace the unpaid workforce that nature has offered us in the form of the little voluntary workers on whom the Earth’s growing power depends.’ For humans, working with – and not against – the soil and its inhabitants means taking a step back, being attentive, and, ultimately, doing less. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; * When documents of different historical forms of cultivation in this region are assembled together, connections between agriculture, land extraction, and violence become tangible. Long-term nutrient extraction brought about depletion, which increased the demand for more farmland in Europe as well as overseas. The demand has not stopped. Instead, it has escalated in ways that cause irreversible damage to habitats and people. In the pre-industrial farming system, the unregulated kitchen garden may have brought food sovereignty to the family, since its surplus went directly to the household. As a form of cultivation, kitchen gardens require less land in relation to yield. However, they need to be adequately fertilised. Composting and returning manure to the land is therefore crucial. The findings compiled in this research – including the missing parts and the gaps between objects – open up a space for questions and a re-imagination of what the history of cultivation could have looked like in this region. Beyond this, they point to possible cultivation systems that do not exhaust the soil and its habitat. In a gesture of repair, Åke Broberg, a gardener based on Gotland, decided to breed a new turnip variety in memory of the famous Gotland turnip that was irreversibly lost. Broberg used seeds of turnips from Finland and Germany to breed a variety especially suited for cultivation on Gotland, and named it the Bunge turnip. Within the framework of this research project, seeds of the Bunge turnip have been propagated and distributed among interested gardeners and farmers, together with tubers of early potato strains that travelled from the Andes to Gotland and grain from ancient Levant emmer wheat. Cultivating these crops is one way to reconnect to the deep memory stored in the living landscape and to begin the process of refiguring how to live in peace with the Earth. References
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Natur &amp; Kultur. 2009. https://asasonjasdotter.info/Nachbarschaftsakademi Thu, 22 Jul 2021 13:42:13 +0000 Asa Sonjasdotter https://asasonjasdotter.info/Nachbarschaftsakademi Nachbarschafts akademi The Nachbarschaftsakademie (NAK, 2015-2019) was created as a self-organized platform for collective learning, bringing together critical artistic practices and urban and rural activism. 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Which kind of future are we learning for – a future in which we share the responsibility for life on this planet or a future of accelerated destruction? In 2015 the ›Nachbarschaftsakademie‹ began experimenting with self-organised forms of learning, between activism and art. In summer 2019, under the title Growing From the Ruins of Modernity, a curriculum for a permanent place of life-long learning will be developed – for the next 99 years – at the community garden in Kreuzberg. Learning, in our book, means contributing collectively and joyfully to forms of co-existence in which human beings and the biosphere are not exploited. Marco Claussen and Åsa Sonjasdotter in EVERYTHING GARDENS! GROWING FROM THE RUINS OF MODERNITY. Ed. Herbst, Marc and Teran, Michelle. Adocs. 2019. Graphic design by Luca Bogoni. Images above:&nbsp;Page excerpts from the book. <img width="1000" height="650" width_o="1000" height_o="650" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8280e55ecd482e3725b4d919b71a8901bc7ddb1af36eadaf20fc03d7271fa238/3.jpg" data-mid="117291754" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8280e55ecd482e3725b4d919b71a8901bc7ddb1af36eadaf20fc03d7271fa238/3.jpg" /> <img width="840" height="540" width_o="840" height_o="540" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e79a16af4fc399ad3d208d3d90d873730f06a33ac4ca404db676f1a4f917f5f0/11393693_872778066116002_7316846229641796032_o.jpg" data-mid="117291810" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/840/i/e79a16af4fc399ad3d208d3d90d873730f06a33ac4ca404db676f1a4f917f5f0/11393693_872778066116002_7316846229641796032_o.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="600" width_o="1000" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d260757823be8ca69463457d073392f6ef8c0fbb9190e56c4ab86409ae818c59/IMG_5463aaa.jpg" data-mid="117291795" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d260757823be8ca69463457d073392f6ef8c0fbb9190e56c4ab86409ae818c59/IMG_5463aaa.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="650" width_o="1000" height_o="650" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c9c50169d695e1d4d7151aa575e0dccc1b31ddc86667e8394e54ab9dee2d6e23/5.jpg" data-mid="117291753" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c9c50169d695e1d4d7151aa575e0dccc1b31ddc86667e8394e54ab9dee2d6e23/5.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="600" width_o="1000" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/231fc7d2f93cb9d861d72536dcb56057ce47ea64f4b88ad80ecb28bc8f317bac/FilmabendSettlers.jpg" data-mid="117291828" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/231fc7d2f93cb9d861d72536dcb56057ce47ea64f4b88ad80ecb28bc8f317bac/FilmabendSettlers.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="700" width_o="1000" height_o="700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bc80fb62a8bca469c1dd21e2ef2422c06c7a3c547bc35b6bf01397c9fdc119a1/DSC_0727paula596.jpg" data-mid="117291759" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bc80fb62a8bca469c1dd21e2ef2422c06c7a3c547bc35b6bf01397c9fdc119a1/DSC_0727paula596.jpg" /> <img width="720" height="480" width_o="720" height_o="480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e882b591e8733868ae15e2763658e904233f16658b52731f7d489541524c8ca3/DSC09346.jpg" data-mid="117291760" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/720/i/e882b591e8733868ae15e2763658e904233f16658b52731f7d489541524c8ca3/DSC09346.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="650" width_o="1000" height_o="650" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a9e4d82861088c6e50227358b8f20db445251cea52d39820dfdffccab9881839/commons0836.jpg" data-mid="117291756" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a9e4d82861088c6e50227358b8f20db445251cea52d39820dfdffccab9881839/commons0836.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="750" width_o="1000" height_o="750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/31f09cba3242ac5899c47fe5eb1201839d31a26fc927351d1c8bee13018bd3ac/DragonerFuehrung.jpg" data-mid="117291757" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/31f09cba3242ac5899c47fe5eb1201839d31a26fc927351d1c8bee13018bd3ac/DragonerFuehrung.jpg" /> City Country LandProgram 2015&nbsp;Throughout the summer of 2015 the Neighborhood Academy is inviting activists, artists, architects, researchers and representatives of initiatives working on questions of urban and rural resilience, commons, land-politics and social housing. The invited guests, together with partners from Moritzplatz, Kreuzberg and Brandenburg, will work on local issues and exchange experiences and working tools through workshops, walks, interventions and with the help of manuals. Over time, based on the first program in the summer of 2015, an open and jointly build knowledge and experience platform will be formed. It will be complimented through the construction of an experimental architectural structure: a multi-story vertical garden. Starting with a nucleus, the garden architecture will gradually grow through DIY-constructing and evolve to a physical space for the Neighborhood Academy. → More about the program and the participants. <img width="1586" height="1099" width_o="1586" height_o="1099" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aca837bf26030c697008c9a35f2bab17d8dc3dc02eeea0cc20f05a07a8951a32/FOOD_FUTURES_ALLMENDE.jpg" data-mid="117292383" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aca837bf26030c697008c9a35f2bab17d8dc3dc02eeea0cc20f05a07a8951a32/FOOD_FUTURES_ALLMENDE.jpg" /> Food FuturesPublication.&nbsp;2015.By Brett Bloom, Marco Clausen, Bonnie Fortune, and Åsa Sonjasdotter. → Download PDF The continued globalisation of modern food networks is introducing an unprecedented level of complexity to the global food system, bringing both significant benefits and systemic risks. Disruptions at any one point in the system would be likely to reverberate throughout the food supply chain. Volatile food prices and increasing political instability are likely to magnify the impacts of food production shocks, causing a cascade of economic, social and political impacts across the globe. Food System Shock: The insurance impacts of acute disruption to global food supply, Lloyd’s Emerging Risk Report. 2015. This publication starts with a simple question born of our own lack of understanding: “What is the future of food in the Berlin-Brandenburg Bioregion?” It turns out to be an extremely difficult question to answer. We are interested in knowing where our food comes from and wanted to learn from people in the city and on the farms what kinds of awareness about food was out there and to talk to people who might have the story of the future of food here. Our investigation had some urgency as it was fueled by the horrifying report quoted above. It paints a gruesome near future with massive climate disruptions, food riots that last for years destroying regional capacities to make food, and large die offs of vulnerable populations of people that have been historically oppressed. The report reads like dystopian science fiction. It is a powerful narrative as it will drive investment, risk assessment, and undoubtedly have an impact on how food is produced around the globe. How do we begin to contest such disempowering, irresponsible narratives? We could even say it is immoral to advocate the position Lloyd’s—“Lloyd’s is not a company; it’s a market where our members join together as syndicates to insure risks.”—take as the report also projects the attitude that the company will do nothing to mitigate this horrendous future, but will instead seek to profit from its multiple, epic miseries. We are interested in changing the narratives around the future of food. This is an important role for cultural workers to undertake. A big problem we have had in making this book is that it is difficult to see where to act because it is hard to get an overview let alone have an intuitive or embodied understanding of the scope and scale of the things we are investigating. This publication is a way to get started. We entered into the process with our own personal experiences. This is where we start because it seems that no one has an overview of all the intricacies of the global food system and how it might respond to crisis. A mainstream effort is needed to understand localized food futures—systems that provide for people in a region particularly in the face of massive stresses, disruptions, and breakdown—and how they can work in solidarity and harmony with each other across national or regional boundaries, differences, and ideologies in neighboring regions—in contradistinction to fragile, neoliberal food chains that will easily fall apart. This will need to include all kinds of farming and farmers to get going. Conversations must happen across the varying scales of farming, the techniques used (organic in practice, certified organic, industrial organic, conventional, non-food farming), and the political positions that drive them. We have been travelling in the areas of Berlin and East Brandenburg. We have met with people engaged in urban gardening: Severin Halder, researcher, garden activist in Allmende-Kontor in Berlin; Gerda Münnich, garden activist; large-scale farmers: Hans Georg von der Marwitz, who also is a politician in the parliament, 800 ha (1977 acres); Lutz und Manfred Wercham, 400 ha (988 acres); mid-size farms: Bienenwerder, 80 ha (198 acres); as well as small-scale farms: Ulrich Vössing and Jennifer Klemin, Hanna and Johannes Erz. From these conversations, we have picked up a few recurring themes. One urgent topic that has repeatedly come up is the need for increased communication between people in the various areas of the region from city, suburb, to country side. We want to use the concept of the bioregion in order find a way to talk and think differently about food futures in the region. Bioregionalism is conceptually useful as it includes a discussion of biodiversity, communication with processes that are bigger than the region. It is in contradistinction to nationalist identification with land, which becomes impossible once one knows what a bioregion actually is and consists of. In fact, bioregions do not conform to national boundaries and bioregions overlap with one another, exchange things, share with one another. Perhaps bioregionalism is a powerful way to fight the stupidity and shortsightedness of identifying with land instead of locating oneself in an ever changing complexity and diversity. This publication is a first step. We will organize meetings and exchanges between people in the city and farmers. We will work to expand the conversations and the awarenesses around food futures and the things that effect this struggle in the region. The Prinzessinnengarten Moritzplatz The Prinzessinnengarten Moritzplatz (PG) was a community garden started in 2009 on a former wasteland in Berlin’s Kreuzberg neighborhood. Until 2018 it was run as a social enterprise combining experimental gardening, environmental education, and the facilitation of a café and a restaurant. In 2012 there was a successful struggle to stop the privatization of the PG’s land.&nbsp; At the end of 2019, part of the organisation moved to another location along with most of the mobile elements where much of its gardening is done. Another group continues as custodians of the garden by Moritzplatz. https://asasonjasdotter.info/Cultivating-Abundance-1 Sun, 22 Aug 2021 13:48:21 +0000 Asa Sonjasdotter https://asasonjasdotter.info/Cultivating-Abundance-1 Cultivating Abundance – On the commoning practice of participatory plant breeding. A film by Åsa Sonjasdotter in dialogue with Hans Larsson. 34 min. Recorded at the Larsson farm in Fulltofta, Sweden and at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Alnarp, 2019. <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/84b24515800bcfb4a695afb4621cf9ab91df8b963e47212ca6263ab76179631a/CA_graded-tekster-DNxHD_Version_Pic3-copy.jpg" data-mid="117211476" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/84b24515800bcfb4a695afb4621cf9ab91df8b963e47212ca6263ab76179631a/CA_graded-tekster-DNxHD_Version_Pic3-copy.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3ea736a34867bfd70f443071ecf865f6d0b904cf12ab96108bd45093fe93ff37/CA_graded-tekster-DNxHD_Version_Pic4-copy.jpg" data-mid="117050159" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3ea736a34867bfd70f443071ecf865f6d0b904cf12ab96108bd45093fe93ff37/CA_graded-tekster-DNxHD_Version_Pic4-copy.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6522ab7dd75cc3ef85167847b5ffb116bde5af5ab00d6b15072876f570ca08f3/CA_graded-tekster-DNxHD_Version_Pic1-copy.jpg" data-mid="117211503" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6522ab7dd75cc3ef85167847b5ffb116bde5af5ab00d6b15072876f570ca08f3/CA_graded-tekster-DNxHD_Version_Pic1-copy.jpg" /> <img width="1900" height="1057" width_o="1900" height_o="1057" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e59beb9b5cc3cf3ae9f79ee7a255e8b36edbe5b25845fd238101b471630f066b/Screenshot-2019-07-11-at-10.26.43.png" data-mid="117211794" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e59beb9b5cc3cf3ae9f79ee7a255e8b36edbe5b25845fd238101b471630f066b/Screenshot-2019-07-11-at-10.26.43.png" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5bfe04817ed2a9feba9a70e9e2e5b5f91461038f26833ae7df62f44552a5a84f/CA_graded-tekster-DNxHD_Version_Pic9-copy.jpg" data-mid="117050161" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5bfe04817ed2a9feba9a70e9e2e5b5f91461038f26833ae7df62f44552a5a84f/CA_graded-tekster-DNxHD_Version_Pic9-copy.jpg" /> <img width="1903" height="1067" width_o="1903" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b5269b36a3c730e2d8a94e2c17d6cec02430b6fcb21e01093399c63a12454a58/Screenshot-2019-07-11-at-10.30.42.png" data-mid="117211813" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b5269b36a3c730e2d8a94e2c17d6cec02430b6fcb21e01093399c63a12454a58/Screenshot-2019-07-11-at-10.30.42.png" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4ccd23d699d62acf4d1db7312c2db7b59119c2868e4288351cd1a5e65f2ee653/CA_graded-tekster-DNxHD_Version_Pic13-copy.jpg" data-mid="117050162" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4ccd23d699d62acf4d1db7312c2db7b59119c2868e4288351cd1a5e65f2ee653/CA_graded-tekster-DNxHD_Version_Pic13-copy.jpg" /> This film is made in collaboration with Hans Larsson and Allkorn (allkorn.se), a farmer-initiated association working for the restitution of the heritage grains that Larsson have rescued from the deep freezers of the Nordic Genebank. Photography: Matilda Mester, Bruno DerksenEditing: Matilda MesterSound design: Jochen JezussekSound recording: Mathias Schlaegel, Jacob Gustavsson and Frank Mølgaard KnudsenEnglish Subtitles: Ingrid EngLink to the film:https://vimeo.com/359014311Password: Cultivating_Abundance On plant breeding /Om växtförädlingens historiaby/ av Hans Larsson. In Swedish/på svenskaFrom the website of / Från Allkorns hemsida (allkorn.se) Sedan jordbrukets begynnelse för 10000 år sedan har bönderna förädlat växter för sina lokala klimat och jordar. Förädlingen har utförts av mängder av bönder på mängder av platser. Jordens odlade mångfald har framställts av bönder. Antalet sorter har varit enormt, man talar tex om en halv miljon rissorter i Indien. När den vetenskapliga växtförädlingen startade i slutet på 1800talet togs förädlingen över av ett fåtal människor på ett fåtal platser. I början försökte man förädla för en lokal anpassning. Sverige hade tex sju örädlingsstationer fördelade över landet. Växtförädlingen var en statlig angelägenhet och stöttades med anslag. Efter 1970 privatiserades växtförädlingen och man förädlade ännu mer för en vid eller bred anpassning av sorterna. Dvs sorterna skulle kunna odlas överallt om de fick näring och skydd mot skadegörare. Efter hand skärptes utsädeslagarna och böndernas ursprungliga växtförädling är i princip olaglig. Ekologisk växtförädling Ekologisk förädling innebär bland annat att tidigare regionala växtförädlingsstationer ersätts med ett samarbete mellan förädlingsforskare och ekologiska odlare för att välja ut de sorter som passar bäst för regionen så kallad deltagande forskning.Ekologisk förädling&nbsp;innebär också att sorter väljs ut som förutom goda odlingsegenskaper, som ogräskonkurrens och effektiv kväveupptagningsförmåga också har bra bakningsförmåga, goda kvalitetsegenskaper och god smak.&nbsp;Växtförädlingen&nbsp;fram till tidigt 60-tal hade ungefär samma förutsättningar som ekologisk odling i dag, dvs låg insats av gödselmedel och inga kemiska bekämpningsmedel. Ekologisk förädling kartlägger därför det sortmaterial som använts fram till 1960-talet i Sverige men jämför också med moderna sorter som har attraktiva egenskaper som resistens, effektiv kväveupptagning och bra ogräskonkurrens.Ur&nbsp;kultursorter&nbsp;görs istället för selektiva urval mot speciella egenskaper, som ex. produktionsförmåga, en spridning av egenskaper där man ur samma sort får ett flertal linjer med olika förstärkta men inga borttappade egenskaper. Därigenom behåller man och förstärker mångfalden av egenskaper.&nbsp;Ekologisk växtförädling&nbsp;är ett nytt begrepp som innebär att sorter som odlas i det ekologiska jordbruket också skall vara speciellt lämpade för detta och framtagna i ekologiska förädlingsprogram.&nbsp;För varje gård och region kan sorter hittas och anpassas för att på bästa sätt utnyttja platsens ekologiska förutsättningar i klimat och jordtyp.Den genetiska mångfalden hos våra i genbanken bevarade kulturväxter med lång anpassning till landets förhållande är den mest värdefulla tillgången för ekologiskt jordbruk. Deltagande växtförädling Projektet med gamla sorter har pågått sedan 1995 på Alnarp. Många lantbrukare har sedan dess fått utsäde för att prova på den egna gården. Projektets syfte är att återskapa den biologiska mångfalden och hitta sorter som passar för ekologisk odling. Sorterna skall ha hög kvalitet och god smak. Den ekologiska synen på en sort är att den skall vara lokal för att man skall utnyttja de platsbundna egenskaperna så bra som möjligt både ifråga om klimat och jord.&nbsp; Den Nordiska genbanken har sparat en liten rest av den stora biologiska mångfald som en gång fanns i Sverige. Med utgångspunkt från den kan vi på nytt skapa en mångfald. Kulturväxterna skall inte ägas av multinationella företag utan gamla sorter skall ägas av bönderna. Variationen, den biologiska mångfalden skall vara så stor som möjligt både på fältet med mångformiga sorter eller sortblandningar och på gården med många arter och sorter och i regionen där bönderna inte alltid odlar samma sorter.&nbsp;Grundläggande principer för deltagande forskning är:&nbsp;Forskning ska bedrivas på ett sätt som gör att människor kan deltaga i hela forskningsprocessen från formulerandet av frågeställningen till analys och diskussioner om hur resultaten skall &nbsp;användas.&nbsp;Forskning ska ha som syfte att föra med sig direkta och positiva effekter för de grupper och individer som involveras.&nbsp;Kunskap är någonting som fördjupas och berikas samt görs mer socialt när det skapas kollektivt med människor i grupp&nbsp;.&nbsp;Forskning innefattar en kombination av olika tillvägagångssätt (inkluderande såväl kvalitativa och kvantitativa metoder) avsedda att underlätta kollektivt skapande av kunskap&nbsp;.&nbsp;Forskning, folkbildning och skapandet av kunskap är ofta aspekter av samma intellektuella process, när den är riktad mot handling&nbsp;.&nbsp;Deltagande forskning syftar även till empowerment, på svenska&nbsp; att ha kapacitet att sätta i stånd . Det betyder att arbeta med sin egen utveckling tex ökat självförtroende, förståelse för sin egen roll och betydelse och ökad makt över utvecklingen. Genom ökad samverkan med andra intressenter är det lättare för den enskilde att förstå sin egen verklighetsbild och vilken roll man själv kan spela.&nbsp;Att arbeta tillsammans med att återinföra de gamla sorterna i ett ekologiskt hållbart lantbruk innefattar samtidigt kultur ella, ekologiska, sociala, ekonomiska och politiska aspekter. Evolutionär växtförädling Begreppet evolutionär växtförädling myntades redan på 1950talet. Den har kommit tillbaka de senaste decennierna med något som kallas composite cross populations. Man korsar moderna sorter med varandra och låter blandningen utvecklas under upprepad odling. Blandningarna har kallats &nbsp;moderna lantsorter, men lantsorter karakteriseras också av lokal anpassning till klimat och jord, historiskt ursprung och traditionella jordbrukssystem. Grunden i evolutionär växtförädling är att populationer med stor genetisk mångfald utsätts för naturlig selektion. Genom att så ut populationerna år efter år så producerar de mest gynnade plantorna mer frö till nästa generation. Populationer under utveckling kan klara av både stress och varierande miljöer. Sorterna är inte enhetliga och inte stabila men de utvecklas med odlingen och klimatet och är också motståndskraftiga mot sjukdomar. De anpassar sig således efter jordens och platsens förutsättningar och hör till framtidens jordbruk genom att skapa den mångfald som är nödvändig. https://asasonjasdotter.info/View Thu, 22 Jul 2021 13:19:43 +0000 Asa Sonjasdotter https://asasonjasdotter.info/View VIEW feminist strategies in Danish visual art ‘this book brings an understanding of the struggles in the periods that the book deals with, as well as why they were necessary.’ - Forum <img width="1674" height="2288" width_o="1674" height_o="2288" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/67ff4d70c6990f47fed0e96d23a23be43414b5a63e48d61e6d540342377977a6/UDSIGT_COVER.jpg" data-mid="119748411" border="0" data-scale="52" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/67ff4d70c6990f47fed0e96d23a23be43414b5a63e48d61e6d540342377977a6/UDSIGT_COVER.jpg" /> Published in 2004, VIEW –feminist strategies in Danish visual art gathers information and material about projects that have previously been fairly inaccessible. The antology enquire and debate feminist strategies in Danish visual art from 1968 until 2004. VIEW does not offer a chronological overview. Language, Narration, Space and Action are the four focal points of the book, giving a thorough introduction to a wide range of feminist strategies across generations and schools. With this book, the feminist action group Kvinder på Værtshus has created an important contribution that has been sorely missing, and which will benefit the wider debate on representation and art history, in Denmark and abroad. <img width="2892" height="2092" width_o="2892" height_o="2092" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5d4c6db66166c601f8e30b67bae3c3d279e903aedfc7e6442603e2a9e0756ec8/spacecampain-web.jpg" data-mid="114409558" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5d4c6db66166c601f8e30b67bae3c3d279e903aedfc7e6442603e2a9e0756ec8/spacecampain-web.jpg" /> <img width="1079" height="808" width_o="1079" height_o="808" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c0b4261787ff909c7f472618c3f78f0826484b89cc38c36062dd2b0096534150/download-1.jpg" data-mid="114409555" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c0b4261787ff909c7f472618c3f78f0826484b89cc38c36062dd2b0096534150/download-1.jpg" /> <img width="1079" height="808" width_o="1079" height_o="808" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/09a71315475749e3559ca9bf6de877c2efd539549dc99d19d83a9ca2f6c6a0dc/download-2.jpg" data-mid="114409556" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/09a71315475749e3559ca9bf6de877c2efd539549dc99d19d83a9ca2f6c6a0dc/download-2.jpg" /> <img width="2896" height="2096" width_o="2896" height_o="2096" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/94e2f91d4282477da9fceb44933c11deaa4421fbf781e988c128726e948a5c57/kvindeuds.1975-web.jpg" data-mid="114409557" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/94e2f91d4282477da9fceb44933c11deaa4421fbf781e988c128726e948a5c57/kvindeuds.1975-web.jpg" /> <img width="2883" height="2088" width_o="2883" height_o="2088" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d31be1758e08f6ba4c2ea510d1dfd0a1ebb205b1c1032523803a2ee64ff01847/storyteller.jpg" data-mid="114409559" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d31be1758e08f6ba4c2ea510d1dfd0a1ebb205b1c1032523803a2ee64ff01847/storyteller.jpg" /> Ed.ited by Nanna Debois Buhl, Nynne Haugaard, Åsa Sonjasdotter, Lisa Strömbeck. Published by Informations Publishing House, Copenhagen, in November 2004. 262 pages. In Danish and English https://asasonjasdotter.info/The-Order-of-Potatoes-article Tue, 24 Aug 2021 15:12:56 +0000 Asa Sonjasdotter https://asasonjasdotter.info/The-Order-of-Potatoes-article The Order of Potatoes On Purity and Variation in Plant Breeding &nbsp; Artilcle by Åsa Sonjasdotter in The Wretched Earth: Botanical Conflicts and Artistic Interventions.Ed. Ros Gray and Shela Sheikh, a special issue of Third Text, London. 2018. <img width="2592" height="1944" width_o="2592" height_o="1944" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f7e8bdde31fe70a5ab77121a05f2d9009fe0d25bc3fee1d4be51ade617e2d7f5/alle-sorter-2006.jpg" data-mid="117280458" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f7e8bdde31fe70a5ab77121a05f2d9009fe0d25bc3fee1d4be51ade617e2d7f5/alle-sorter-2006.jpg" /> Abstract and introduction: This article addresses questions of memory, matter, temporality and narrative as they emerge in stable plant variation throughout processes of cultivation and breeding. I have come to investigate these topics through a practice that combines plant breeding and artistic research. Over the last eight years, I have engaged in the cultivation and breeding of farm-bred potatoes with gardeners Bennar Markus and Mathias Wilkens in the self organised and publicly open Prinzessinnengarten in Berlin.[1]The direct engagement with plants has been a way for us to reconnect with human-plant knowledges that are difficult to trace among human records, since not much is written or otherwise documented of the history of pre-industrial farmers’ breeding in Europe. However, it is indisputable that before the appropriation of this knowledge by scientific and corporate organisations, farmers in Europe were breeding, with the old plant varieties that survived bearing witness to this. This circumstance brings awareness of the fact that the memory these varieties carry is still alive and functional in the plant, even though this[S T1]&nbsp; knowledge accumulation has been widely marginalised or even lost to humans. This in turn makes visible how farming and breeding are intra-species skills that are cultivated in a dialogue between plants and humans that also involves microorganisms, soil, weather, geological conditions and so on. In order to learn more about the memory that the varieties we breed from have accumulated, I have traced their different historical trajectories. This has become a way to understand the specific situations in which they emerged as stable varieties. Each of these varieties is developed and maintained as a result of situated, intensified reciprocal nurturing. I have researched these processes as part of the art project The Order of Potatoes, where I cultivate and share stories and potato plants in art spaces, gardens, farms and other contexts. As suggested by the title, Michel Foucault’s archaeological excavation of the fields of linguistics, biology and economics in The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (1966) has informed my investigative method. Foucault’s aim with the comparative method, as he explains in the foreword to the English edition, was to describe ‘an epistemological space specific to a particular period’.[2] [S T2] What Foucault names the episteme, which defines the conditions of possibility of knowledge, is diagnosed through the above-mentioned fields, according to key periods – the Renaissance period, the 'Classical'[S T3]&nbsp; period, and the Modern period – with Foucault’s interest lying in ‘the threshold that separates us from Classical thought and constitutes our modernity’.[3]Vital for Foucault’s analysis of the epistemological ground of the eighteenth-century Classical period is the classificatory system of Carl Linnaeus, to which I will return – a system of representation and ordering that was largely based upon visible characteristics of forms of life, for instance plants, and that coalesced into the discipline of 'natural history', modern biology's historical predecessor. I[S T4] n The Order of Potatoes, I enquire into the location of differing epistemologies surrounding potatoes in cultural narratives in the same time and space. The potato plant is especially interesting in this regard, as it becomes an indicator of the systemic shift within farming that occurred with the advent of modernity, through the emergence of colonialism and capitalism. In this article I will present two different but entangled narratives on potatoes and breeding deriving from this historical timespace. Both narratives begin at the time of early colonialism and capitalism at the end of the sixteenth century. On Linearity and Purity (presented in the left column on the following pages) tells of an attempt to produce purity and linearity in plant matter. On SpaceTime and Hybridity (presented in the right column) presents stories of hybrid time, space and matter. The two stories intersect in a survey undertaken by the Institute of Plant Husbandry of the Royal Agricultural College in Upppsala, Sweden during the years of 1937 to 1942. It is illustrated and quoted on page XX. The publication of this survey marked the beginning of a new order in the farm fields, through which genetically diverse and morphologically flexible plant matter and memory was reorganised according to principles of linearity and purity, which at this time, primarily in Europe, emerged as standardising criteria within plant breeding. The formalisation of these principles has become a legal tool for the standardisation of plants cultivated within industrial and commercial farming internationally today. Within the EU, only plants that meet these criteria are permitted to be cultivated for commercial use.[4]&nbsp; In the narrative in the left column, I locate the Swedish survey in time and space by describing how the principle of purity was invented as a category within breeding and how it benefitted both commercial and politico-ideological interests. In the narrative in the right column, I share the stories of some of the genetically rich and flexible potato varieties that were discarded by the Swedish and similar surveys[5], and that subsequently became forbidden for commercial cultivation within the EU. I present the two narratives alongside each other as a way to make visible how they not only represent different perspectives on the same historical spacetime, but also how they involve different narrative formats. The story of purity assembles along a linear, future-directed time scale. The story of hybridity obtains form by the temporal multi-directionality that the manifold matters and memories of the potato varieties compose and continuously re-compose. The theory of memory and temporality developed by feminist and theoretical physicist Karen Barad in her book Meeting The Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning is instructive in accounting for this difference in narrative form. Barad describes laboratory experiments based on the fact that electrons can appear both as waves and particles. The results of such tests have shown that the particles behave differently depending on the method deployed for observing them.[6]This has led to the conclusion that matter and the method for its observation are entangled dimensions that cannot be separated. The experiments further show that the behaviour of particles cannot easily be pre-determined, and this affects our understanding of concepts such as causality and time. In a 2012 interview, Barad says[ST 5]&nbsp; that 'we assume that time is a given externality, just a parameter that marches forward’.[7] However, the results of the experiments show instead that ‘time is articulated and re-synchronised through various material practices’.[8]Barad’s theory explains how the two narrative formats presented in this essay are conceived not only from distinct viewpoints on the same historical time and space, but also from difference in material practice within that time and space. [1]&nbsp;For more information on the garden, see prinzessinnengarten.net, accessed August 24, 2020. [2 ]Michel Foucault, The Order Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences, Routledge, London and New York, 2002, p. xi. [3]&nbsp;Ibid, p. xvii. [4]&nbsp;Since 2012 it has also been permitted for genetically flexible cultivars [plants that are artificially cultivated by humans] to be distributed commercially within the EU, registered as either conservationor amateur varieties, however in limited volumes. Department for Environment, Food &amp; Rural Affairs, ‘New consultation on conservation and amateur vegetable varieties’, Press Release, August 4, 2010, see https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-consultation-on-conservation-and-amateur-vegetable-varieties, accessed August 24, 2020. [5]&nbsp;Surveys for the inventory of cultivars were for example carried out in the Soviet Union by the N.I. Vavilov All-Union Institute of Plant Industry, where 140 expeditions were organised between 1920 and 1940, or by The German Institute for Cultivated Plant Research, which was founded in 1943. See M. Veteläinen, V. Negri and N. Maxted (eds.) 'European landraces: on-farm conservation, management and use', Bioversity Technical Bulletin 15, Rome, Biodiversity International, pp. 26-27. [6]&nbsp;Karen Barad, Meeting The Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and and ever in limited volumes.e “ich in turn narrates ce to inter-activity. t of subject and object"ce, but also opens up and rewMeaning, Duke University Press, Durham , 2007. [7]&nbsp;Interview with Karen Barad, ‘Matter feels, converses, suffers, desires, yearns and remembers’, New Materialism: Interviews &amp; Cartographies, edited by Rick Dolphijn and Iris van der Tuin, Series: New Metaphysics, Open Humanities Press, An imprint of Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2012, p. 66. [8]&nbsp;Ibid. To cite this article: Åsa Sonjasdotter (2018) The Order of Potatoes, Third Text, 32:2-3, 311-329, DOI: 10.1080/09528822.2018.1492278 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2018.1492278 https://asasonjasdotter.info/Adretta Wed, 25 Aug 2021 06:59:21 +0000 Asa Sonjasdotter https://asasonjasdotter.info/Adretta Adretta On Memory as Practice, Potato&nbsp;Breeding, and a Socialist Model Village in the GDR. <img width="1815" height="1332" width_o="1815" height_o="1332" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fe31f0644faba9d87279bcffd7c9ca4953c5e6eaf5d78a880b2ae8720b4d5da4/3.Table017.jpg" data-mid="117284580" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fe31f0644faba9d87279bcffd7c9ca4953c5e6eaf5d78a880b2ae8720b4d5da4/3.Table017.jpg" /> A research-based article by Elske Rosenfeld and Åsa Sonjasdotter, published in Parallel Diagonals: artistic inquiry into a landscape. Ed. Mikhail Lylov. Natural, Architectual-Archaeological Museum Reserve Divnogorie. 2016. PDF of article&nbsp;→ Introduction Two different archives are at the heart of this story, told in text and images. One is the photographic archive of the former Institute for Plant Breeding in Groß Lüsewitz in the GDR. The Archive was compiled by photographers employed by the Institute between 1948 and 1990. Its purpose was to document the development of the Institute, as one of the major centres for agricultural research in the Eastern bloc, and of the village itself, as a model village for the industrialisation and urbanisation of agriculture in the GDR. The archive was thrown on a rubbish dump when the Institute was closed down in 1990, and saved by a former employee. It was preserved thanks to the personal efforts of members of the village history club.&nbsp; The second archive is the potato Adretta, which was developed at the Institute and certified here in 1975. Like all cultivated plants, Adretta is an archive of a breeding process, a continuous human-plant-dialogue, dating back to pre-historic times when agriculture began. Adretta became a success, because of its robustness, which suited the needs of the large-scale farming units of the planned economy. It was soon cultivated widely, not only in East Germany, but also around the whole Soviet Union. After 1990 it no longer met the requirements of the new, capitalist economy. As an archive, Adretta is fragile. It needs to be replanted each season to survive. But it fared better than the photo archive of Groß Lüsewitz: Adretta has become one of the most beloved and prevalent staples of post-Soviet subsistence farmers from Kazakhstan to Siberia. In the stories presented here, the two archives – processed through the research of Åsa Sonjasdotter and Elske Rosenfeld – are explored as forms of dormant knowledge that are latent or active sources of&nbsp; resistance and dissent. Such knowledge pits itself against a capitalist logic, a way of inscribing human and human-to-non-human relations, that is today proving ever more clearly dysfunctional. https://asasonjasdotter.info/The-Order-of-Potatoes-exhibition Wed, 25 Aug 2021 10:29:20 +0000 Asa Sonjasdotter https://asasonjasdotter.info/The-Order-of-Potatoes-exhibition The Order of Potatoes This ongoing artistic enquiry evolves around potato varieties that are restricted for commercial cultivation within the EU. Most of these old and new varieties are bred by farmers for small-scale use. They are genetically too diverse to meet EU’s regulations on Distinctiveness, Uniformity and Stability, the so-called DUS criteria, which have to be met in order for the plants to qualify for commercial use. <img width="2592" height="1944" width_o="2592" height_o="1944" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6c48bdd505b40ec8c609ffeb4c366e048d78bbd20b26bff8bcf96270c387a250/alle-sorter-2006.jpg" data-mid="212562035" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6c48bdd505b40ec8c609ffeb4c366e048d78bbd20b26bff8bcf96270c387a250/alle-sorter-2006.jpg" /> &nbsp; The potatoes are grown and circulated together with stories from the cultural and historical context in which they have been bred. When brought together, their stories tell about the long historical process in which they ended up as relegated bodies.&nbsp; <img width="1748" height="1240" width_o="1748" height_o="1240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3fd5be2d72efe08bd8d23288d073f23dc4cd2b2bf603a364dba82e1a3c3079c4/THE_ORDER_OF_POTATOES.jpg" data-mid="211211007" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3fd5be2d72efe08bd8d23288d073f23dc4cd2b2bf603a364dba82e1a3c3079c4/THE_ORDER_OF_POTATOES.jpg" /> <img width="1748" height="1240" width_o="1748" height_o="1240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fcbc33bf00d37c08895bf62d3995fca55497a95f4d97290c19c021225dc298b9/THE_ORDER_OF_POTATOES2.jpg" data-mid="211211009" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fcbc33bf00d37c08895bf62d3995fca55497a95f4d97290c19c021225dc298b9/THE_ORDER_OF_POTATOES2.jpg" /> <img width="1748" height="1240" width_o="1748" height_o="1240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/605f13748fedef47ba9a8516f2184d110ab958f96fd4e65a51597ed9bbb88d0e/THE_ORDER_OF_POTATOES3.jpg" data-mid="211211011" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/605f13748fedef47ba9a8516f2184d110ab958f96fd4e65a51597ed9bbb88d0e/THE_ORDER_OF_POTATOES3.jpg" /> <img width="1748" height="1240" width_o="1748" height_o="1240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/486077d0555b906bbd4cfe0879f7cf89a16ac366b956c4596a3d32e238c3527f/THE_ORDER_OF_POTATOES4.jpg" data-mid="211211012" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/486077d0555b906bbd4cfe0879f7cf89a16ac366b956c4596a3d32e238c3527f/THE_ORDER_OF_POTATOES4.jpg" /> <img width="1748" height="1240" width_o="1748" height_o="1240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b573b91e11b3ff16bda976a244c3904a9389eec20666796985d277cfe5026e07/THE_ORDER_OF_POTATOES5.jpg" data-mid="211211013" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b573b91e11b3ff16bda976a244c3904a9389eec20666796985d277cfe5026e07/THE_ORDER_OF_POTATOES5.jpg" /> <img width="1748" height="1240" width_o="1748" height_o="1240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9a5b10b7bd2dc13aaa3f534a03bd7132a0f98014187696032cf430b99e7e96b9/THE_ORDER_OF_POTATOES6.jpg" data-mid="211211108" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9a5b10b7bd2dc13aaa3f534a03bd7132a0f98014187696032cf430b99e7e96b9/THE_ORDER_OF_POTATOES6.jpg" /> <img width="1748" height="1240" width_o="1748" height_o="1240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/49b8b0920fe2f41924cbbc870faff171355b43a74429676b761df533a1448051/THE_ORDER_OF_POTATOES7.jpg" data-mid="211211142" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/49b8b0920fe2f41924cbbc870faff171355b43a74429676b761df533a1448051/THE_ORDER_OF_POTATOES7.jpg" /> <img width="1748" height="1240" width_o="1748" height_o="1240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/923c4474e039acf7066384331da4801a938157cec9a59a1577ef8a46c2726606/THE_ORDER_OF_POTATOES8.jpg" data-mid="211211156" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/923c4474e039acf7066384331da4801a938157cec9a59a1577ef8a46c2726606/THE_ORDER_OF_POTATOES8.jpg" /> <img width="1748" height="1240" width_o="1748" height_o="1240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/29421a69794bb176d5cc67c38873e467b3e4bef6d8d75cb99015257d759a006a/THE_ORDER_OF_POTATOES9.jpg" data-mid="211211157" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/29421a69794bb176d5cc67c38873e467b3e4bef6d8d75cb99015257d759a006a/THE_ORDER_OF_POTATOES9.jpg" /> <img width="1748" height="1240" width_o="1748" height_o="1240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5242d1bb821a35d61a205a37214a9c45eda73065992a5a71cc7d74a4812772de/THE_ORDER_OF_POTATOES10.jpg" data-mid="211211158" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5242d1bb821a35d61a205a37214a9c45eda73065992a5a71cc7d74a4812772de/THE_ORDER_OF_POTATOES10.jpg" /> <img width="1748" height="1240" width_o="1748" height_o="1240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/99ffc643d710655222e1b75ec7a4713022873d1d644c7d023a8a8af1e186c432/THE_ORDER_OF_POTATOES11.jpg" data-mid="211211159" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/99ffc643d710655222e1b75ec7a4713022873d1d644c7d023a8a8af1e186c432/THE_ORDER_OF_POTATOES11.jpg" /> When presented, the potatoes are acompanied by paper sacks carrying information about the specific qualities of the variety printed on one side, and a narrative about social and cultural implications related to the variety on the other. In the compilation above, purposed for presentation within Germany, to exemplify other possibilities for relation, one variety is not comprised by the EU restirctions, as it is grown and circulated in the Bolivian Altiplano of the Andes only.&nbsp; DOCUMENTATION I Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen,&nbsp; Denmark. April - June, 2009. <img width="4680" height="3330" width_o="4680" height_o="3330" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8644000f5fa520f64a1818a7b237ba025640b602245c259863c314e647589415/1.jpg" data-mid="117294507" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8644000f5fa520f64a1818a7b237ba025640b602245c259863c314e647589415/1.jpg" /> <img width="5406" height="3402" width_o="5406" height_o="3402" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4d58676ae3e06ebbec42619bd19c68d07fab9c717148a4acfd70d5342790fbf8/14.jpg" data-mid="117294564" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4d58676ae3e06ebbec42619bd19c68d07fab9c717148a4acfd70d5342790fbf8/14.jpg" /> <img width="5616" height="3744" width_o="5616" height_o="3744" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b6efdb82b1c4a4f48ce058685ad9f142072e7fa31839dcc28d74dd4b50b816e0/18.jpg" data-mid="117294553" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b6efdb82b1c4a4f48ce058685ad9f142072e7fa31839dcc28d74dd4b50b816e0/18.jpg" /> <img width="5616" height="3744" width_o="5616" height_o="3744" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cc123618d2a4f47a22b28726b290c2d6f3f3deca4011c29dd08453afd3a945ab/34.jpg" data-mid="117294574" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cc123618d2a4f47a22b28726b290c2d6f3f3deca4011c29dd08453afd3a945ab/34.jpg" /> <img width="5616" height="3744" width_o="5616" height_o="3744" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4c1c8f94f88e65366473236817b588157c39a6d193f6cb6e9f402188fd638910/36.jpg" data-mid="117294562" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4c1c8f94f88e65366473236817b588157c39a6d193f6cb6e9f402188fd638910/36.jpg" /> <img width="5616" height="3744" width_o="5616" height_o="3744" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bd70524a5e673d9341c8b70b482d6a2dcaf31d9a0f77f982278ae7c1c43f60e1/4cc.jpg" data-mid="117294560" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bd70524a5e673d9341c8b70b482d6a2dcaf31d9a0f77f982278ae7c1c43f60e1/4cc.jpg" /> Photography by Camilla Berner, Sebastian Schiørring, and Åsa Sonjasdotter. Materials: EU pallets, sacks with 16 different potato varieties, paperbags with 16 different two sided prints. Potato varieties: Mehlige Mühlviertler, Congo, Vitelotte, Æggeblomme, Rosa Tannenzapfen, Bamberger Hörnchen, Highland Burgundy, King Edward, Arran Victory, Lapin Puikula, Adretta, Asparges, Linda and Rote Emma. Each paper bag had on the one side printed information about a potato variety and on the other side a related narrative on the cultural/ historical/ economical implication for this variety to have been bred.&nbsp; Most of the presented varieties are old heirloom potato varieties prohibited for commercial circulation within The EU, since they do not live up to the standards of EU’s so called DUS-criterias (Durability Uniformity and Stability). Visitors could fill the printed paper bags with potato of the described variety and bring with them to plant, cook or in other ways let circulate. Curated by Sebastian Schiørring and Camilla Berner. DOCUMENTATION II The Potato Day Sørfinnset Skole/The Nord Land art centre, 20 September, 2008. <img width="2272" height="1704" width_o="2272" height_o="1704" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9faf0a1a68864fe29efa87ff245d62efba6c470ba0ddf5178f0d67484b230512/Potet_setting.JPG" data-mid="212561411" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9faf0a1a68864fe29efa87ff245d62efba6c470ba0ddf5178f0d67484b230512/Potet_setting.JPG" /> <img width="2272" height="1704" width_o="2272" height_o="1704" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c3047f62435583182b95ee6cfa1c6ad60a2a5bdef6a1dae963592f59ad82c734/Potet_hypping.JPG" data-mid="212561410" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c3047f62435583182b95ee6cfa1c6ad60a2a5bdef6a1dae963592f59ad82c734/Potet_hypping.JPG" /> <img width="2272" height="1704" width_o="2272" height_o="1704" 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height="3072" width_o="2304" height_o="3072" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/603cfa26e6b240a3fa1e33cd384c080c0a978fcaccf878137c136100d108c924/P92001460.JPG" data-mid="212561430" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/603cfa26e6b240a3fa1e33cd384c080c0a978fcaccf878137c136100d108c924/P92001460.JPG" /> <img width="3072" height="2304" width_o="3072" height_o="2304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e80e063d9da593dd3a189db2328839516e2ffa3b4a568c6a91790268ac67b94d/P92001620.JPG" data-mid="212561429" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e80e063d9da593dd3a189db2328839516e2ffa3b4a568c6a91790268ac67b94d/P92001620.JPG" /> <img width="3072" height="2304" width_o="3072" height_o="2304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/94875ed1e5edc74d38ddb9e546473ab16d6c05e1b552807ddd290651f39a7819/P92001700.JPG" data-mid="212561431" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/94875ed1e5edc74d38ddb9e546473ab16d6c05e1b552807ddd290651f39a7819/P92001700.JPG" /> <img width="3072" height="2304" width_o="3072" height_o="2304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd087376a2cb1faf6662e2ff5d46fedf9d7a4518bd85d80491be338ad2a3e972/P92001840.JPG" data-mid="212561432" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fd087376a2cb1faf6662e2ff5d46fedf9d7a4518bd85d80491be338ad2a3e972/P92001840.JPG" /> Photography by Søssa Jørgensen, Geir Tore Holm, and Åsa Sonjasdotter.&nbsp; In the spring of 2006, Søssa Jørgensen and Geir Tore Holm at Sørfinnset Skole/The Nord Land art centre in northern Norway asked me to send them a package of various peasant-bred potatoes. The centre is located in the small rural village of Sørfinnseth, in a former school building. Within two years, the varieties had spread in the village and were grown in most of the gardens. In 2008, Jørgensen and Holm invited me to take part in The Potato Day, a celebration of the annual harvest. They had organised a competition for the largest and most peculiar potato. The prize was a new seed potato of each variety. Village residents cooked various favourite potato dishes that were served and enjoyed, and I shared some stories about my work with potatoes. DOCUMENTATION III Collective cultivation in the Prinzessinnengarten experimental garden, Berlin, throughout the growing season of 2010. <img width="3648" height="2736" width_o="3648" height_o="2736" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ad5b350a770decd4b753b4012f4149a86f3fa028f8e382a4dd3b69fd6529d2cd/11.JPG" data-mid="212561522" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ad5b350a770decd4b753b4012f4149a86f3fa028f8e382a4dd3b69fd6529d2cd/11.JPG" /> <img width="3648" height="2736" width_o="3648" height_o="2736" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0310c280086c4fa0e4c30383427f3fceb2b087ab2a3f0e47046d3f772f902809/16a.JPG" data-mid="212561523" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0310c280086c4fa0e4c30383427f3fceb2b087ab2a3f0e47046d3f772f902809/16a.JPG" /> <img width="2736" height="3648" width_o="2736" height_o="3648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a41810cfde642f0a0ab000d9aeef6fdcf7bfd5f9e63cca54c6d9e460ce596971/17.JPG" 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In the spring of 2010, I was asked to join growing potatoes at the Prinzesinnengarten in Berlin. The open garde was located on a former wasteland, one of the few undeveloped plots of land still owned by the city. With the help of the garden’s many participants from th neighbourhood and beyond, a range of different potat varieties were planted, grown, tended, harvested, cooked, and finally celebrated with a feast. Some tubers were also stored for the next year.The varieties grown were Mehlige Mühlviertler, Blau Schwede, Vitelotte, Æggeblomme, Rosa Tannenzapfen, Bamberger Hörnchen, Highland Burgundy, King Edward, Arran Victory, Lapin Puikula, Adretta, Asparges, Linda, and Rote Emma. <img width="2736" height="3648" width_o="2736" height_o="3648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e2bc0052d8a751399925a22c8b61d622ad659b8c5c066caf7b5111cc974f0b59/64.JPG" data-mid="212561763" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e2bc0052d8a751399925a22c8b61d622ad659b8c5c066caf7b5111cc974f0b59/64.JPG" /> <img width="2736" height="3648" width_o="2736" height_o="3648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1f7cb1a8fda36b22e4b29279ec32e8ac67ee6730fb91c3aa67f8dd1e0a984f13/65.JPG" data-mid="212561764" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1f7cb1a8fda36b22e4b29279ec32e8ac67ee6730fb91c3aa67f8dd1e0a984f13/65.JPG" /> <img width="2736" height="3648" width_o="2736" 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The harvest was celebrated with a large feast where dishes were prepared based on the different qualities and stories of the potatoes. The dishes were developed and prepared by a group of dedicated participants in the cultivation process and were based on their reflections on the stories and qualities of the different varieties. The dishes included: aloo bonda, a popular South Indian dish made with Blaue Schwede potato mash balls; papas chorreadas, a Colombian national dish made with boiled Vitelotte chips and green herb mash made with King Edward or Red Emma Pink; nettle soup made with Adretta; pommes Pont-Neuf, les vraies frites révolutionnaires made with King Edward and Rote Emma; plum dumplings made with Mehlige Mühlviertler and Vitelotte; and pizza made with Mehlige Mühlviertler potato dough and served with sweet tomato jam. Marco Clausen, Bennar Markus, Svenja Nette, Matze Wilkens, and Robert Shaw were collaborators in the garden. Hannes Budweg, Leif Erich Christensen, Kim Hiorthøy, Till Kober, Nicole Messenlehner, Michael Pfefferle, and Ulrike Solbrig joined in the kitchen.