August 2010: The sour dough starter is NOW resting in Cornwall, UK before starting out on its 2010/2011 tour. If you would like to be part of Season 2, please contact us at: ks@dematerial.org or patricksimons1@gmail.com to talk it through. |
Cultural Capital (2009) is a distributed artwork that draws parallels between the use of bacteria and culture in traditional breadmaking and the generative condition of network art. The work is conceived as a touring artwork that accumulates bacteria and cultural capital from every venue in which it is installed, cared for by curators in gallery and non-gallery settings. Following the recipes and protocols of participation curators grow a sour-dough starter and share it with guests at a formal or informal event that they organise. As part of the work, curators document the process of caring for the sour-dough as well as the event itself. The work emerged from our regular bread-making activities. At first we just began to notice slight disturbances in the everyday patterns and processes of baking a loaf as we realized that we were ‘caring for’ a very fragile entity. We came across a text by Alexander Galloway and Eugene Thacker that made a connection between ‘caring for’ and curating, and we began to think about the possibility of inviting curators to care for the starter. |
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| 26th February 2010 Ana Carvalho cared for the sour-dough starter in Portugal. and distributed the starter at an event which also celebrated 500 short stories written by Bronte Sisters on the blog(spot) Latido de Cachorro more | ||
| 1st December 2009 curator Zoe Shearman, Relational, Bristol cared for the sough dough starter during installation week of Arnolfini's Craftivism exhibition. (more...) | ||
| 19th September 2009 the sour dough starter was cared for by Ben Hyde at his bakery Trois Petits Pains in St Julien de Jonzy, France. (more....) | ||
| During August 2009 Cultural Capital was part of ISEA2009 The Exhibition curated by Kathy Rae Huffman. (more....) | Kathy Rae Huffman | |
| 25th June 2009 Heather Lovelady and Laura Wild held an event with the community of Somewhere Else, Liverpool. (more....) | ||
| 28th May 2009 Joasia Krysa and Geoff Cox (KURATOR) distributed the starter at THE INFECTED SEMINAR. (more....) |
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May 15th 2009 Caroline Broadhurst organised lunch with her old colleagues on Friday and distributed the starter to them. (more....) |
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April 30th 2009 Alice Ladenburg distributed the starter at an event to celebrate her birthday. (more....) |
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April 14 2009 Michelle Kasprzak distributed the sour-dough at a dinner which was held to welcome Stelarc to Edinburgh. (more....) |
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3rd April 2009 Sarah Cook distributed the sour-dough starter on her journey to Edinburgh. (more....) |
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March 24th 2009 Beryl Graham distributed the sour-dough at an AHRC Research Training event on Digital Media/Curating. (more....) |
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