Landscape, soil, cheese and me

Largely confined to the Jan van Eyck Academie] during their residency, both Robin and Nickie from The Soft Protest Digest adopted an introspective approach orbiting questions of transition and self-sustenance in dire circumstances, such as pandemics and planetary crises.
Robin Bantigny has made and ripened cheeses from locally produced raw milk to serve daily for one month at the Café-Restaurant. 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.

A 1 month performance

Soil

all the soil samples explored in different ways

Cheese

Ardennes cheeses in Maastricht |the dedicated page for every cheese made during the performance Four horizons of Ardennes’ milks |an experiment on designing an cheese that illustrates the local landscape

A short film

In the start of September 2021, the collective was invited by the Food Art Film Festival 2021, run by the Food Lab of the Jan van Eyck Academie; 🎞🎥[Landscape, soil, cheese and me]