Artists: Aline Bouvy and Simon Davenport
Exhibition title: New Pabulum
Curated by: Juste Kostikovaite
Venue: Kunstraum, London, UK
Date: September 6 – October 10, 2015
Photography: Oskar Proctor, images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Kunstraum, London
TO DO LIST:
Establish “Wet Nurse Café”
Re-domesticate quinoa grains in the Andes
Pull out the overgrown pine trees in the dead dunes
Sell a car
Detest old clothes
Read about the marathons
Play with a dog’s hair
See a child die
Bruno Latour proposed we ‘regroup the contemporary elements along a spiral rather than a line. We do have a future and a past, but the future takes the form of a circle expanding in all directions, and the past is not surpassed but revisited, repeated, surrounded, protected, recombined, reinterpreted and reshuffed…’. Outside a duality of present and past, action and object have a polytemporal relationship. As the industrial production of food and of heritage combine – high tech production alongside traditional techniques – then what else could be possible. Can we take a lesson on human nourishment from the proposition of a “Wet Nurse Café” – a site for breast feeding of children by strangers. Exchanging the cow’s body with a human’s body to produce a new pabulum, a polytemporal communal experience, a nexus of milk, a charity of life.
Simon Davenport, tablet i, 2015
Simon Davenport, tablet ii, 2015
Simon Davenport, tablet iii, 2015
Aline Bouvy, Radical Passivity, 2015
Aline Bouvy, Radical Passivity, 2015 (detail)
Simon Davenport, Unlimited Semiosis, 2015
