TO BE OR NOT TO BE
Ethical and aesthetical perspectives on nature as resource25.October 2008, Kunstkvarteret LofotenSeminar curated by Eva Bakkeslett in collaboration with Kunstkvarteret Lofoten featuring Maasai artist Riziki Kateya, Eirik G. Jansen, Dr. Philos in Social Anthropology and cultivator Eva Bakkeslett. http://www.kunstkvarteret.no/Prosjekter/AfricaNowIndex.html People define nature as a resource. What does this really mean?Has profit replaced sustainable management and have […]
THE WISHING TREE
Collaboration with PLAN at the University of Osloduring the Research Open Days (Forskningsdagene, Oslo, September 2008. Workshop aimed at children between 4 and 12 about visioning the future. All the stories about the devastating effects of climate change can be paralyzing, and we wanted to go beyond the fright and reach out to catch glimpses […]
THE VALUE OF BREAD
King Ramses Bakery “Food and land and labour and human dignity are the only real sources of value but we trade those for cash hardly giving a thought for our children, our air, our water. But we can’t eat cash, no matter how much we make! So the value of bread is not in the […]
ALCHEMY
I was brought up with bread making being an existential, and therefore integral, part of the weeks work. My grandmother baked, my mother baked and even my father baked bread. Not just one at the time but often in batches of 6, that filled the house with the unmistakable aroma of yeast and freshly made […]
BREAD AS SOCIAL SCULPTURE
Read more about my breadwork on www.evabakkeslett.com – Work/Projects – The Poetics of Bread
COMPANION
Did you know that the Arabic words for “bread” and “life” is the same – aysh. The Russian word for hospitality – khlyeb-sol – means bread and salt and it is still customary there to greet any visitors with a piece of bread and salt. The Latin roots for companion also leads us to the […]
SENSIBLE PERSPECTIVES
Baking bread is a cross-cultural and ancient art that deserves to be celebrated and acknowledged as a universal art form. Good bread provides the needed glue between life and art, it creates social bonds and restores the loss of sensibility and meantime that is lacking in our efficient and homogenized world. By baking our own […]
ABOUT THE FILM ALCHEMY
Alchemy is a short film celebrating the poetics of bread. The film is a poetic evocation on the alchemy of bread and 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 […]