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[[File:Cheese-poems.jpg|thumb|2 poems were written as if told by the 2 cheeses that were exhibited during the Jan van Eyck’s Open studios.]] | [[File:Cheese-poems.jpg|thumb|2 poems were written as if told by the 2 cheeses that were exhibited during the Jan van Eyck’s Open studios.]] | ||
Largely confined to the [https://janvaneyck.nl/ Jan van Eyck Academie] during their residency, both Robin and Nickie from [[The Soft Protest Digest:About|The Soft Protest Digest]] adopted an introspective approach orbiting around questions of transition and self-sustenance in dire circumstances, such as pandemics and planetary crises. | Largely confined to the [https://janvaneyck.nl/ Jan van Eyck Academie] during their residency, both Robin and Nickie from [[The Soft Protest Digest:About|The Soft Protest Digest]] adopted an introspective approach orbiting around questions of transition and self-sustenance in dire circumstances, such as pandemics and planetary crises. | ||
<br>Robin Bantigny has made and ripened cheeses from locally produced raw milk to serve daily for one month at the Café-Restaurant 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 serve daily for one month at the Café-Restaurant 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. | ||
==A 1 month performance== | ==A 1 month performance== | ||
[[File:LandscapeSoilCheeseMe_planning.jpg|thumb|Final planning of the full performance.]] | [[File:LandscapeSoilCheeseMe_planning.jpg|thumb|Final planning of the full performance.]] | ||
<i>Written at first person as Robin</i> | <i>Written at first person as Robin</i> | ||
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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.]] | |||
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.) | ||
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