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\u201cgrow_ability\u201d is an interdisciplinary art exhibition exploring relations between nature and technology in the context of sustainable society. The artworks in the exhibition investigate the issues of sustainability in relation to our planet’s ecology and energy from the \u201cfood as energy\u201d perspective.<\/p>\n
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The exhibition features three installations: Super Meal by Erik Sj\u00f6din (SE), Folk Pharmacy by Serde (LV), and Talk to Me by RIXC artists collective (LV).<\/p>\n
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Super Meal by Swedish artist Erik Sj\u00f6din drew attention to the aquatic plant Azolla \u2013 one of the worlds fastest growing plants, which is a rich source of nutrients, yet unexplored as food. In Super Meal artist experiments with Azolla food together with farmers, chefs and scientists and tries to get some insight into how our food is being produced today and how it can be produced in the future.<\/p>\n
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Latvian artists and culture researchers Signe Pucena, U\u0123is Pucens, Ieva V\u012btola (Interdisciplinary Arts Group SERDE) and Aigars Lielb\u0101rdis (LU LFMI LFK, LU HZS) in the exhibition presented their project Folk Pharmacy \u2013 an artistic interpretation of the use of indoor and wild plants as food and folk medicine. Artists introduce to plant foraging cultural traditions today and invite to turn gifts of nature and our knowledge about them into useful source of energy \u2013 and to think of our balcony or windowsill as a garden or pharmacy.<\/p>\n
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Artists Raitis \u0160mits, Rasa \u0160mite and M\u0101rti\u0146\u0161 Ratniks exhibited the most recent project by RIXC \u2013 Talk to Me (Long Bean 2011). Nowadays scientists have experimented to examine the old assumption that plants which had been talked to grow better. RIXC has developed online interface through which one can talk to plants via the Internet. Project is a continuation of the social participatory art campaign \u201cLong Bean\u201d (co-produced by RIXC and NTIL), which was based on the idea \u2013 \u201cgrow your our own vegetables!\u201d. This year RIXC also will grow its own vegetables, but this time we invite you to join the experiment \u2013 \u201cto talk\u201d with plants thus helping \u201clong beans\u201d to grow faster, better and longer.
\nInstallation in Riga is the second phase of this ongoing project, which started in Helsinki during Pixelache festival in March. The final stage of the project will be presented as a part of RIXC’s installation \u201cRenew-ability\u201d in KUMU Tallinn this summer.<\/p>\n
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Artists participating in the exhibition are also founders and active members of the recently founded Baltic-Nordic transdisciplinary collaboration initative \u2013 Renewable Network. Renewable Network is a platform for artists, who in their quest for a sustainable future are using networking strategies, participatory culture tactics and cross-disciplinary approach. Artists of Renewable Network combine art with science, technology \u2013 with nature, social activism \u2013 with urban gardening, food production \u2013 with open information systems, cultural heritage \u2013 with search for alternative energy, etc., thus claiming that the future scenario of a sustainable world can only suceed, if we become more open to new ideas and new collaborations.<\/p>\n
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Exhibition was organised by The Centre for New Media Culture RIXC in the framework of the Baltic-Nordic collaboration project \u201cArt as Research: Energy\u201d supported by Nordic Culture Point. The exhibition is also supported by State Cultural Capital Foundation of Latvia.<\/p>\n
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Exhibition scenography: Rudolf Bekic
\nProduction: RIXC \u2013 Raitis \u0160mits, Daina Sili\u0146a, Agnese Baranova","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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