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Agri/Culture 2.0
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Featuring: Paul Chaney, Bram Thomas Arnold, Urbanomic, Kathrin Bohm (MyVillages), William Arnold, James Fergusson, Andrew Ormerod.
Kestle Barton is excited to announce the launch of a new phase at the Rural Centre for Contemporary Arts on the Lizard in Cornwall. Agri/Culture 2.0 will, in the summer of 2021, present to the public a report Kestle Barton commissioned in 2020 to examine ways of reintegrating the 56 hectares of farmland at Kestle Barton into an experimental site for artists, agroecologists, academics, farmers, writers and the local community to work to together on new forms of experimental and creative land management.
The original report was coordinated by Kestle Barton’s associate artist Paul Chaney in collaboration with a team of Cornish and International artists, agroecologists, foresters and chefs including Kathrin Bohm (MyVillages), Dom Bailey (CAST café), Dr. Bram Thomas Arnold, James Fergusson, William Arnold, Mollie Goldstrom and artist duo Food Sketz. For the launch event members of the team will be present to introduce the possibilities of Agri/Culture 2.0 in collaboration with audience members and participants from the local community.
The day will include a tour of the orchards, a talk by the authors of the report, an interactive exhibition in the studio at Kestle Barton and an evening in the field around the camp fire at Chaney’s Encampment Supreme including an iteration of Bram Thomas Arnold’s performance Bibliotherapy for the Anthropocene and an off grid disco by Urbanomic’s editor in chief Robin Mackay publisher of the journal Collapse and internationally renowned contemporary philosophy.
The studio will be open from 11 am with a public talk at 1pm followed by the tours of the farmland and evening events from 7pm until late. People are encouraged to bring a picnic, light refreshments will be available throughout the day from Kestle Barton’s in house café.