Date | 06 June 2025 11:00–12:00 |
Venue | The Kitchen / Central Location |
Price | Gratuit |
Together, through the World : Ecopedagogies in Practice with microsillons
Grace Gloria Denis (BE/ES)
As an extension of Grace Gloria Denis’ residency and research on the territory, this round table unfurls the notion of ecopedagogy nourished by the perspectives of the collective microsillons. In a cross-pollination that convenes reflections on education, art, and ecology, this exchange valorises the cultivation of collaborative knowledge construction and methodologies of actualizing Paulo Freire's stance of learning "together, through the world" through direct ecological engagement. The Lexicon of Agroecology, co-produced with the students of Plan Dessus subsequently curated and produced by textile artist Elena Braida, will be presented as a cartography of actions illustrative of ecopedagogy in practice. This participatory dialogue examines myths of perpetual growth, overproduction, and extractivism implementing sensorial methodologies in dialogical practice and place-based inquiry.
During foodculture days Biennale 2025, Grace Gloria Denis will also present An Ecology of Encounters: Restitution and Edible Alliances: Cereals and Legumes together with Aziadé Cirlini.
Grace Gloria Denis’ work converges agricultural research with interactive installation, braiding together edible matter and sound to propose a convivial and comestible approach to critical inquiry. Implementing the meal as both a medium and a pedagogical tool, her work refers to participatory action research models, engaging in collaborations with actors in local food systems utilizing agroecological techniques. Her work considers the quotidien interaction with the esculent realm as a poetic tool of transmission, inviting a reframing of sensorial relations to consumption practices.
microsillons – Created in 2005 in Geneva by Marianne Guarino-Huet and Olivier Desvoignes, the microsillons collective develops collaborative artistic projects engaged in social and civic reflection, based on strategies borrowed from critical and feminist pedagogies.
The collective has collaborated with numerous cultural institutions including the Garage (Moscow), the 116 - contemporary art center (Montreuil), VANSA (Johannesburg), the WYSPA Institute (Gdansk), the Contemporary Art Center of Parc St- Léger or the Center for Contemporary Art Geneva, where he was in charge of mediation projects between 2008 and 2010. Since 2015, microsillons has been responsible for the Master TRANS - Socially Engaged Art Practices, at HEAD — Geneva.
Elena Braida (IT) is a textile artist and researcher based in Northern Italy, currently undertaking a PhD in Art, Design and Transdisciplinarity at IED, Turin. In her work she investigates the spatial discourse between the notions of conviviality and publishing, the generational passage of oral and written cultural heritage and their domestic and public domain. Elena likes to work with local organic markets, organises creative workshops, experiments with textile printing and writes about culinary methodologies.
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microsillons
Elena Braida
Photo credits: Grace Gloria Denis