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==A 1 month performance== | ==A 1 month performance== | ||
[[File:LandscapeSoilCheeseMe_planning.jpg|thumb|Final planning of the full performance (FR).]] | |||
<i>Written at first person as Robin</i> | <i>Written at first person as Robin</i> | ||
<br> | <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 and project in other humans the network in which our primates’ life are tied in — whatever we make — and that makes “us” broader than only-humans. | ||
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===Landscape=== | ===Landscape=== | ||
[[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.]] | [[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.]] | ||
This web constituted by a space of ±50km2 area for a time of 30 days, tied me up with 4 Dutch and Belgian farmers that I have found through the landscape they live in. 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. The landscape is 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.) | This web constituted by a space of ±50km2 area for a time of 30 days, tied me up with 4 Dutch and Belgian farmers that I have found through the landscape they live in. 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. The landscape is 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.) | ||
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| Melkgeitenbedrijf Noelmans-Peters || Riemst, BE || goat milk || Shop open Wednesday and Saturday 10-17 || José +32 495532390 || 1,5€/L | | Melkgeitenbedrijf Noelmans-Peters || Riemst, BE || goat milk || Shop open Wednesday and Saturday 10-17 || José +32 495532390 || 1,5€/L | ||
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===Soil=== | ===Soil=== | ||
[[File:LandscapeSoilCheeseMe_soil-biota-scales.jpg|thumb|3 different scales of observation were used to see as much of the soils’ biota as possible: macro, meso and microscopic.]] | |||
I also extracted a small piece of soil from the pastures I got milk from. Along the purchased milk, this soil sample brought back home was “visited” with a microscope to look for living beings in these soils, reflecting on the decomposers’ primal activity to decay and recycle organic matter, the changes threatening their mutualism, and its analogy with the way microbe societies make cheeses. | I also extracted a small piece of soil from the pastures I got milk from. Along the purchased milk, this soil sample brought back home was “visited” with a microscope to look for living beings in these soils, reflecting on the decomposers’ primal activity to decay and recycle organic matter, the changes threatening their mutualism, and its analogy with the way microbe societies make cheeses. | ||
<br>Soil analysis of milk providers: 1 hectare grassland next to the farm's main barn. | <br>Soil analysis of milk providers: 1 hectare grassland next to the farm's main barn. | ||
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*🔬[[Microscopic_observation_archives#April_2021_.7C_Hoeve_de_Koeberg_soil_analysis|Check the page dedicated to the soil analysis of Hoeve de Koeberg farm for more details]] | *🔬[[Microscopic_observation_archives#April_2021_.7C_Hoeve_de_Koeberg_soil_analysis|Check the page dedicated to the soil analysis of Hoeve de Koeberg farm for more details]] | ||
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===Cheese=== | ===Cheese=== | ||
The cheeses were made with raw goat and/or cow milk from 4 farms in an area of ø40km around Maastricht. They were curdled with rennet to make uncooked soft cheeses. Half of the cheeses were ripened with various ferments (G. candidum, P. camemberti, P. roqueforti) and the other half developed the milks’ “wild” biota. They were aged for 1 week to 1.5 month in a cold moist room without any energy input. | The cheeses were made with raw goat and/or cow milk from 4 farms in an area of ø40km around Maastricht. They were curdled with rennet to make uncooked soft cheeses. Half of the cheeses were ripened with various ferments (G. candidum, P. camemberti, P. roqueforti) and the other half developed the milks’ “wild” biota. They were aged for 1 week to 1.5 month in a cold moist room without any energy input. | ||