Carbon Arts

FORUM: Climate Change, Culture + Cuisine

The future of sustainable food lies in a complete rethink of how humans relate to the natural environment through collective engagement and cultural innovation.

Carbon Arts and Arena Project Space invite you  engage with New York based artist/engineer/activist Prof Natalie Jeremijenko, chef Mihir Desai and guest speakers to explore how we can use the creative potential of science, modernist cuisine and the imagination to connect food production to healthy ecologies.

Monday 28 November 2011
6.00 – 7.30 PM
Arena Project Space I 2 Kerr St Fitzroy, VIC, 3065
$10 Pay at the door I Drinks by donation

SOIREE OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS: Exploring the magic life of soils with Cocktails + Desserts

Pack your bags, we are off for a trip to Avoca, in country Victoria, to meet local experts and agricultural producers to explore our relationship to soils, top and bottom.

Put your feet in the earth, turn your eyes to the stars, and relax while enjoying a rich serving of after dinner treats designed to bring a whole new awareness to terroire and terra firma.

Carbon Arts is pleased to be collaborating with The Avoca Project (TAP) for this event. TAP is the initiative of established Australian artist, Lyndal Jones. The European house provides a home to exhibitions, symposia, projects and events that draw community attention to the historical causes and effects of climate change.

Saturday 26 November 2011
From 8.00 – 9.30 PM (onwards)
The Avoca Project I 16 Dundas St, Avoca, VIC, 3467 (2 hrs drive from Melb)
$35 – Dress Adventurous
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Jeremijenko's xClinic and Farmacy

Become a uFarmer! Learn how to create arable land out of thin air

Receive your very own Jeremijenko-designed durable, efficient AgBag, and learn how to fill it with uFoods that equip an urban body to cope with the assault of urban pollutants.

We will step you through the whys and wherefores of closed system agriculture, and how a distributed urban system can produce high value edibles.

We will add a phenological tracking system to your stylish AgBag so that you can become part of a collective experiment in urban farming.

Monday 21 November 2011
2.00 – 5.00 PM
Customs House, Sydney
A NIEA Curating Cities event
$55 | includes workshop and take-home, personalised AgBag
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Carbon Arts and artist Natalie Jeremijenko’s xClinic are colliding with force in November and December 2011 in a mash-up of arts, science, food and sustainability to deliver a series of exciting events under the banner of the Cross(x) Species Adventure Club.

Become an uFarmer at our AgBag workshop in Sydney, taste a biodiverse future with edible cocktails that are delicious to humans and non-humans, or take a trek to the Victorian countryside for a weekend of feral food foraging.

Book here for all events, by selecting from the listings to the left.

Download our full program here : xspecies program of events