Agri/Culture 2.0

Featuring: Paul Chaney, Bram Thomas Arnold, Urbanomic, Kathrin Böhm (MyVillages), William Arnold, James Fergusson, Andrew Ormerod.

A vision of artists and audiences working together to create a new kind of sustainable food production effectively blurring the lines between cultural production, sustainable food production, and digital technology creating a new third form of production called ‘Agri/Culture 2.0’.

Kestle Barton is excited to announce the launch of a new phase of research that began in 2020 with a report commissioned with Arts Council Emergency Response funding, and examining ways of reintegrating the 56 hectares of farmland at Kestle Barton into an experimental site for artists, agroecologists, academics, farmers, writers and the local community to work together on new forms of experimental and creative land management.

The report, named Agri/Culture 2.0 was co-ordinated by Kestle Barton’s associate artist Paul Chaney in collaboration with a team of Cornish and International artists, agroecologists, foresters and chefs including Kathrin Böhm (MyVillages), Dom Bailey (CAST café), Dr Bram Thomas Arnold, James Fergusson, William Arnold, Mollie Goldstrom, Dr Andrew Ormerod, and artist duo Food Sketz (Alison Clare and Cat Smith).

The day will include a tour of the orchards, a talk by the authors of the report, an interactive exhibition in the studio at Kestle Barton and an evening in the Orchard around the campfire at Chaney’s Encampment Supreme including an iteration of Bram Thomas Arnold’s performance Bibliotherapy for the Anthropocene
and an off-grid disco provided by Urbanomic’s editor in chief Robin Mackay publisher of the journal Collapse and internationally renowned contemporary philosophy.

In addition, until Friday 13 August, the studio will be open from 11 am with a public talk at 1pm followed by the tours of the farmland and evening events from 7pm until late. People are encouraged to bring a picnic, light refreshments will be available throughout the day from Kestle Barton’s in house café.