Rice, Ritual, Spirit

Online Dialogue curated by 7 1/2 Project

Photo Credit: 7 ½ project

Project 7 ½ presents the Critical Reading project, funded by the Korean Arts Council, involving activists, architects, artists, curators, and educators from Korea, Indonesia, and the UK. In the context of the project, the idea of Critical Reading relates to our attempts to look at the various elements that make up our present from different perspectives. Through their empirical knowledge, all the participants will reflect on how the changing socio-economic and environmental situations in their regions have been reflected in art activities in recent decades. By this process, we will experience differences in artistic practices within different historical, cultural, and social contexts of Korea, Indonesia, and Britain, which will be the starting point of another connection. Changes in the subjective dimensions refer to changes in our consciousness and values. Discussions are held online to gather and understand various points of view, and understand our solidarity for change and what can lead to it.

Participant: Arie Syarifuddin, Clare Twomey, Diyah Wara Restiyati, Eko Prawoto, Ginggi Syar Hasyim, Gustaff Harriman Iskandar, Marco Kusumawijaya, Matthias Kispert, Nia Gautama, Phoebe Cummings, Ramalis Sobandi, Shin-Koo Woo, Sunyoung Oh, Tessa Peters, Yeongran Suh

Collaboration: Ceramic Research Center, Common Room, Jatiwangi Art Factory, Kecapi Batara, Tanas Nusa Foundation

Organized by Project 7 ½
Supported by Korea Arts Council

Publication

Rice, Ritual, Spirit: The possibility of a Plural and Sensorial approach to Traditional Agricultural Knowledge, written by Yeong Ran Suh

Critical Reading: For understanding arts and social relations: an artistic practice to advance socio-economic and environmental situations. Publisher: Curated by 7 1/2 project ( Sun Young Oh)

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Collective Writing Ritual

Based on an ongoing research <Rice, Ritual, Spirits> about the disappearance of traditional rice agriculture in Asia since the Green Revolution, this writing ritual lets the unfinished search, rice goddess myth, erasure of spirits, ritual, communal labor, local flora & fauna, and stories of various rice communities penetrate bodies and weave into each other.”

Keywords: TEK, Empirical Knowledge, Plural Ecology, Rice, and Community

Performed at @tarnbyparkstudio Taarnby Park Studio’s