BEE THE TASTE

BEE will be showing in San Fransisco at TASTE 2009, an event curated by Sarah Klein and Root Division. Opening: Saturday, April 11 from 7-10 pm. The show will run till the 23rd when Root Division will host a unique and sumptuous evening celebrating the beauty of art & food in San Francisco. TASTE 2009 […]
MIXED GREENS

Alchemy will be screening at: Mixedgreens – a selection of food-themed films from Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival on the 27th of March at 6:45pm, Gardiner Museum, Toronto.
ALCHEMY AT MoMA NEW YORK

Panel discussion after screening at MoMA with curator Candida Paltiel and Catherine Van Campen. Alchemy screened on the 20th of February at MoMA in duo with Eternal Mash by Catherine van Campen (http://www.zuidenwind.nl/films/?taal=en&id=69). The films complemented eachother very well, both dealing with the poetry of life and the dying connection between nature and culture. New […]
The Art of Bread Making
Check out The Art of Bread Making by Peter Reinhart.http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/peter_reinhart_on_bread.html
BIOTECH ART MASTERCLASS

BIOTECH ART MASTERCLASSOrganized by i/o/lab and run by SymbioticA’s director, Oron Catts and laboratory research scientist Katharine Adcroft.Stavanger, November 2008 I participated in the intensive four day workshop dealing with hands on exploration of biological technologies and issues stemming from their use. The practical components included DNA extraction and fingerprinting, genetic engineering, plant and animal […]
ALCHEMY AWARDED JURY PRICE

Alchemy was awarded the jury price at the exhibition Nordnorsk Kunstutstilling. The show opened in Bodø on Saturday the 17th and will be touring to various places in Northern Norway. http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/nordland/1.6431708http://www.an.no/kultur/article4051629.ecehttp://www.bodokunst.no/?a_id=720&PHPSESSID=5f2e6780acdf3efacb533dbe455a7e63w.ab24.no/default.asp?page=5349&item=37766,1&lang=1
ALCHEMY TO NEW YORK

Alchemy has been selected to show at MoMA, New York during Documentary Fortnight 2009.Friday, February 20, 2009, 6:00 p.m., Theater 1, T1 http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/660 See also the blog for Alchemy on: http://poeticsofbread.blogspot.com/
ALCHEMY IN TORONTO

Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival, Toronto, October 2008http://planetinfocus.bside.com/2008/films “A poetic evocation on the alchemy of bread brings the act of baking the most basic of staples, into a high art form. Here nature and human culture collude. Hands pounding, mixing, kneading and stretching, reveal the choreographed rhythms and movements of bread making. Alchemy is […]
JOIKING THE SEA

…making the invisible visibleA circular conversation between joik and the ocean. Performance with Johan Anders Bær, International Conference on Globalization and Challenges for Oceans and Marine Regions organized by the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Oslo, August 2008 “Our earth consists of 71% water and yet we call it earth, says the Swedish writer Isabella Lövin.We humans […]
DIRECT CONNECTIONS
Direct Connections – a circular conversation between joik and aesthetics by Eva Bakkeslett and Johan Anders Bær.Art of Adaptation, Fritdjof Nansen Institute, Oslo June 2008 “When I first met joik,I mean the very moment I realized with my body and soul what joik really is,I started sensing the coming to knowing from another perspective.I became […]