From Wednesday 24th March Maile Colbert (www.myspace.com/colbertmaile) together with Rui Costa (www.myspace.com/ruicosta) will care for the sour dough starter. They will use the starter during the Easter weekend when they will travel up North to a very small rural village that Rui's family is from for the traditional Portuguese Easter lunch. The bread shall be shared with the family, and the lunch documented.
Arrangements for new events are in progress.
From Tuesday 1st December 2009 curator Zoe Shearman, Relational, Bristol cared for the sough dough starter during installation week of Arnolfini’s Craftivism exhibition. As part of Craftivism, Arnolfini café bar baked the starter into snacks which were distributed at the opening on Friday 11th December (6-8pm) and, with the Bakery at Bordeaux Quay, produced a supply of bread during the exhibition which continued until 14th February 2010.
Arnolfini http://www.arnolfini..org.uk
Craftivism http://www.craftivism.net
Trois Petit Pains is a small village bakery making sour-dough bread totally by hand and then baking it in a wood-fired oven.
The Exhibition is an extended part of ISEA2009, the 15th International Symposium on Electronic Art, which took place from 23rd August to 1st September 2009 on the island of Ireland.
The starter was cared for by Kathy during installation week and a number of other curators throughout August, including Peter Richards at Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast. On Saturday 29th August 2009 the starter was distributed by Kathy Rae Huffman at the CRUMB Open Bliss Workshop held at The Golden Thread Gallery, and convened by Sarah Cook and Axel Lapp. The workshop took the form of a conversation between practicing curators, bringing together contemporary art and new media art concerning local, site-specific and global, networked practices.
From Tuesday June 16th 2009 cultural_capital was being cared for by Heather Lovelady and Laura Wild at Somewhere Else in Liverpool
On Thursday 25th June 2009 Heather and Laura held an event with the community of Somewhere Else. They distributed the starter, made bread, made lunch, told stories, made videos and took photos.
From Thursday May 21st 2009 cultural_capital was being cared for by KURATOR in Plymouth.
Joasia Krysa and Geoff Cox distributed the starter at THE INFECTED SEMINAR on Thursday 28 May 2009. Snacks were served, produced by artist Lau Thiam Kok, made during KURATOR's custodianship of sourdough starter.
From Friday May 1st 2009 cultural_capital was being cared for by Caroline Broadhurst at home in Edinburgh.
She organised lunch with her old colleagues on Friday May 15th and distributed the starter to them. One portion of the starter was sent by post to KURATOR to care for.
From Tuesday April 21st 2009 cultural_capital was being cared for by Alice Ladenburg in the windowless but very cozy kitchen of her flat in Marchmont.
The starter was distributed on Thursday April 30th at an event to celebrate her birthday. One portion of the starter was given to Caroline Broadhurst to care for.
From Friday April 3rd 2009 cultural_capital was being cared for by Michelle Kasprzak at home - a top floor flat in a tenement in the Dalry area of Edinburgh.
The starter was distributed at a dinner on Tuesday April 14 2009, which was held to welcome Stelarc to Edinburgh. A few days later, one portion of the starter was given to Alice Ladenburg to care for.
From Tuesday March 24th 2009 cultural_capital was being cared for by Sarah Cook at home in Newcastle, a 10th floor flat facing west out of the city
On Friday 3rd April 2009 she distributed the sour-dough starter on her journey to Edinburgh. In Edinburgh one portion of the sour-dough starter was given to Michelle Kasprzak to care for.
From Tuesday March 17th 2009 cultural_capital was being cared for by Beryl Graham at CRUMB and at home.
On Tuesday 24th March 2009 she hosted an event as part of the AHRC Research Training event on Digital Media/Curating: a Culture Lab/CRUMB collaboration in Newcastle at which the sour-dough starter was distributed to guests. At the event, one portion of the sour-dough starter was given to Sarah Cook to care for.
From Sunday March 8th 2009 cultural_capital was being cared for by Patrick Simons and Kate Southworth in their kitchen in Penryn, Cornwall.
On Monday March 16th 2009 a portion of the sour-dough starter was posted to Beryl Graham in Newcastle to care for