TO BE OR NOT TO BE
Ethical and aesthetical perspectives on nature as resource25.October 2008, Kunstkvarteret LofotenSeminar curated by Eva Bakkeslett in collaboration with Kunstkvarteret Lofoten featuring Maasai artist Riziki Kateya, Eirik G. Jansen, Dr. Philos in Social Anthropology and cultivator Eva Bakkeslett.http://www.kunstkvarteret.no/Prosjekter/AfricaNowIndex.htmlPeople define
THE WISHING TREE
Collaboration with PLAN at the University of Osloduring the Research Open Days (Forskningsdagene, Oslo, September 2008.Workshop aimed at children between 4 and 12 about visioning the future. All the stories about the devastating effects of climate change can be paralyzing,
THE VALUE OF BREAD
King Ramses Bakery“Food and land and labour and human dignity are the only real sources of value but we trade those for cash hardly giving a thought for our children, our air, our water. But we can’t eat cash,
ALCHEMY
I was brought up with bread making being an existential, and therefore integral, part of the weeks work. My grandmother baked, my mother baked and even my father baked bread. Not just one at the time but often
BREAD AS SOCIAL SCULPTURE
Read more about my breadwork on www.evabakkeslett.com - Work/Projects - The Poetics of Bread
COMPANION
Did you know that the Arabic words for “bread” and “life” is the same – aysh. The Russian word for hospitality – khlyeb-sol – means bread and salt and it is still customary there to greet any visitors with
SENSIBLE PERSPECTIVES
Baking bread is a cross-cultural and ancient art that deserves to be celebrated and acknowledged as a universal art form. Good bread provides the needed glue between life and art, it creates social bonds and restores the loss of sensibility
ABOUT THE FILM ALCHEMY
Alchemy is a short film celebrating the poetics of bread. The film is a poetic evocation on the alchemy of bread and brings the act of baking the most basic of staples, into a high art form. Here nature