Äppelträdet
2022
BOX Autumn Studio: Sustainable Food Futures
Within the frame of BOX Autumn Studio* I investigated ’the apple tree’ in relation to this year’s topic: Sustainable Food Futures. I was kindly given the geographical directions to a nearby apple tree that later became my investigative partner throughout the artistic process.
My investigation was presented in a spatial installation where visitors where invited to step into my ongoing practice and insights around the topic. The aim was to create a shared space for experiences, thoughts and feelings - as a means to transform rather than to describe.
The installation consisted of my private notes from the study week, reference texts, poems, video material, a meal to share between the visitors - cooked on apples from the nearby tree - and a station to wash cutlery and glass after each visitors’ tasting of the meal.
The different works and the choreographies around the installation acted as symbols for bigger issues related to the topic of Sustainable Food Futures. It aimed to express the necessity for taking action, for the local, for reconnecting to the origins of our food, for frugality, for giving back to the nature and for taking care of one another. Changes of behavior and way’s to live and eat that each and everyone of us need to adapt to, whether we like it or not, if we gonna have a fair chance to save this planet - meaning if we, and the rest of this world’s species, are gonna have any change (at all) to a safe and hopeful future.
*BOX Autumn Studio is a post-disciplinary study week for professional actors within art, design, craft, architecture and performative practices. The BOX Autumn Studio concept is developed by artist Gustav Lejelind and curator Henrik Sputnes.