20 Aug 2015

Call for applications: 'Everything Under The Sun - Alternative Education Program'

EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN is an alternative education program that merges the fields of #FOOD and #ART under the issues of #CLIMATE CHANGE through an interdisciplinary experimental approach.

Background ///
... 'The world's climate is in a constant flux since the Ice Age, and it will continue changing. The new levels of precipitation and changing of temperature patterns is bringing drought to numerous lands around the globe, however at the same time it brings fertility and agricultural variety in the Nordic geographies.
For its first edition in 2015, the program is open to artists, chefs and other creative minds to provide a framework to tackle these issues by rejecting alarmism and mirroring all aspects of climate change and its results on the Earth's landscape'.

How it works//
EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN alternative educational program consists of two four week long modules. Both modules have an experimental structure where series of talks, readings, workshops, discussions and artistic cooking projects will take place.
The program follows an invitation model where the invited instructors will in turn be inviting one or more other cross-disciplinary experts to enrich the content of the project towards arts, food and ecology.

Funding options and how to apply//
10 scholarships (900 eur plus 50% participation fee) will be awarded for outstanding applicants.
Each module accepts up to 15 participants.
Tuition fee: 300 € per module
Selected participants and scholarship recipients will be announced by 21st September 2015

Content and Dates//


Module#1 (22nd October - 13th November 2015): Nordic Food Manifesto; From the Backyard to the Table
*Course leaders Roderick Sloan (food specialist) and Kultivator (artist collective)

As a chef and fisherman based in Norway, Roderick Sloan personally fishes the delicacies that he provides to restaurants that are bringing attention to the new nordic cuisine - such as Noma in Denmark and Fäviken in Sweden. For this seminar, he will be discussing the visible changes in the Nordic waters by reading the climate change from the sea urchins and clams and its connection with the landscapes in the north, working in collaboration with Kultivator, an experimental cooperation of organic farming and visual art practice.

Kultivator will tackle the issue of climate change with alternative approaches focusing on changes in the cultural landscape through prominent migrations and will explore possibilities of subversion by using farming as an organization and collaboration model. The participants will take part in developing new and other partnerships for producing, preparing and sharing food.

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Module#2 (2nd November - 27th November 2015): In the Age of FOODIE-ism
*Course Leader Tue Greenfort (artist) and with guest lecturer Thomas Harttung (food specialist)

Why and how has the quest for ever newer food experiences as a hobby and its legitimising ecological buzzwords become capitalism's new squared playground for a global creative class? Developed by artist Tue Greenfort, this workshop will explore the intersections within a multidisciplinary field of tacit and critical knowledge production around the topic of food.

Unfolded as learning processes and pursuing artistic research in unfamiliar ways, the workshop module will partly be organised as dérives and detailed planned visits examine alternative food production in Berlin. The participants will have an hands on opportunity to study human relationships to food as based on manifolded connectivities between fractured and problematic multi-species kinships.

Tuition fee: 300 € per module
Selected participants and scholarship recipients will be announced by 21st September 2015


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Programme Directors and Curators: Ece Pazarbasi and Caique Tizzi.
Everything Under the Sun is hosted and produced by Agora with the kind support of Nordisk Kulturfond, Kulturkontakt Nord as part of the the Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme – CAPP – which is supported through the EU Creative Europe Programme

* Read more about the program its initiators and its sponsors on our website:
everythingunderthesun.agoracollective.org