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<br>Robin Bantigny has made and ripened cheeses from locally produced raw milk to share with the residents of the Jan van Eyck Academie. He took pains to record his extensive cycling journeys around the region to dairy farmers, from whom he also collected soil samples to study their biota. These deliberative performative routines entangled him in the landscape’s rhythms of mutualism, growth, and decay. | <br>Robin Bantigny has made and ripened cheeses from locally produced raw milk to share with the residents of the Jan van Eyck Academie. He took pains to record his extensive cycling journeys around the region to dairy farmers, from whom he also collected soil samples to study their biota. These deliberative performative routines entangled him in the landscape’s rhythms of mutualism, growth, and decay. | ||
[[File: | [[File:LandscapeSoilCheeseMe planning.jpg|thumb|Final planning of the full performance.]] | ||
==A 1 month performance== | ==A 1 month performance== | ||
<i>Written at first person as Robin</i> | <i>Written at first person as Robin</i> | ||
<br>During the month of April in the region of Limburg, I entangled myself in a network of beings, mutualism and trophic relationships of decay to produce cheese. By doing so, my ambition was to depict the network in which our primates’ life are tied in when we make food. Moreover, realising our bonds with microscopic beings wether they come from the soil, the cheeses or our guts; was meant to help me experience what makes “us” broader than only-humans. | <br>During the month of April in the region of Limburg, I entangled myself in a network of beings, mutualism and trophic relationships of decay to produce cheese. By doing so, my ambition was to depict the network in which our primates’ life are tied in when we make food. Moreover, realising our bonds with microscopic beings wether they come from the soil, the cheeses or our guts; was meant to help me experience what makes “us” broader than only-humans. | ||
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[[File: | [[File:LandscapeSoilCheeseMe milk-map.jpg|thumb|Map showing where the farms are located compared to Robin’s home and the Academie, including the paths to reach every one of them.]] | ||
===Landscape=== | ===Landscape=== | ||
The landscape was constituted by a space of ±50km² area that I browsed for 30 days. This web of 4 farms brought me to meet 4 Dutch and Belgian farmers. This same landscape provides pastures for their domesticated animals (cows and goats) to graze plants that they digest and transform into the milk that I purchased. On my way to each one of the 4 farms, I described the landscape and recorded myself.<ref>You can listen to excerpts from those recording in the short film [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJC_16hlEq0 Landscape, soil, cheese and me]</ref> While cycling, I tried to describe what makes this landscape: the addition of living beings growing, hunting, socialising and working in the surroundings of the road network from home to farms (fields, buzards, sheds, trees, goose, ponds, crows, etc.) | The landscape was constituted by a space of ±50km² area that I browsed for 30 days. This web of 4 farms brought me to meet 4 Dutch and Belgian farmers. This same landscape provides pastures for their domesticated animals (cows and goats) to graze plants that they digest and transform into the milk that I purchased. On my way to each one of the 4 farms, I described the landscape and recorded myself.<ref>You can listen to excerpts from those recording in the short film [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJC_16hlEq0 Landscape, soil, cheese and me]</ref> While cycling, I tried to describe what makes this landscape: the addition of living beings growing, hunting, socialising and working in the surroundings of the road network from home to farms (fields, buzards, sheds, trees, goose, ponds, crows, etc.) | ||