El nostre pa
2019
In my family, there's the tradition of playing a documentary film in celebration days. In the film, my grandfather and his companions harvest wheat and make bread. I was interested in the notions of telling stories, the repetition in agriculture tasks, and the perception of time.
In the topics related to first-hand labor, how those stories from our past generations influence the self and the site. Why do we keep repeating stories, what do they tell, and how oral knowledge production is an organic and influenceable way of sharing?
In the topics related to first-hand labor, how those stories from our past generations influence the self and the site. Why do we keep repeating stories, what do they tell, and how oral knowledge production is an organic and influenceable way of sharing?
Memory bread
"Bread of memory" was given to bereaved relatives in order to remember the dead. In my breads are inscribed the words that would succeed the instructions for planting wheat. Due to the fermentation process and collective ingestion, these words disappear, thus residing only in memory.
Removing the restriction of the method that goes through the transmission of written information (recipes, user manuals). Returning to the mutant orality. Returning to the momentary transfer, to singing, to talking to oneself, and to all those other forms of conversation. And to the experience: "in the agrarian culture only what is repeated is preserved, there is no other support for him (the farmer) than the living transmission."
"Bread of memory" was given to bereaved relatives in order to remember the dead. In my breads are inscribed the words that would succeed the instructions for planting wheat. Due to the fermentation process and collective ingestion, these words disappear, thus residing only in memory.
Removing the restriction of the method that goes through the transmission of written information (recipes, user manuals). Returning to the mutant orality. Returning to the momentary transfer, to singing, to talking to oneself, and to all those other forms of conversation. And to the experience: "in the agrarian culture only what is repeated is preserved, there is no other support for him (the farmer) than the living transmission."
Wheat fields visit. Locations from the film, 2018