EATING THINGS
has extended out from a family project documenting the journey of two children as they start to learn and eat edible 'things' from 'outside'. Starting in 2010 when the eldest child was a year old, the project became a method to 'grow' knowledge as the children grew.
Detached from generational knowledge of food ecologies through structural one-way food systems and displacement, the project looks prismatically to enact a series of methods to grow, deepen and develop connections and culture through shared intergenerational learning.
Eating Things
calls to embrace
alienation by
eating things
As time passed, the familys experience has amplified the mediation of learning by technology and the internet. Starting afresh, Eating Things calls for intergenerational learning to 'grow' knowledge in IRL (in real life) utilising our current nature, which now in the first instance, seeks information online. IRL performs the internet, the family of foragers lead to 'search', gather and 'process' the 'results' of edible, medical and harmful plants and fungus found outside of conventional food systems to develop situated data as memory.
EVENTS, EXHIBITIONS & ARTICLES
IRL/ MIMAZINA, Issue #31, Winter 2022
IRL/ North Shields, UK. October 2022
IRL/ Castlefield Gallery Manchester, UK. 24 September 2022>
IRL/ ArtHouses Whitley Bay, UK. August 2022
IRL/ BEER & BERRIES Festival Hospitalfield, Arbroath, UK. August 2022
IRL/ A botanical Library FEAST Journal, Fallowfiled Secret Garden, Manchester UK. June 2022
BEER & BERRIES Festival Hospitalfield, Arbroath, UK. August 2021
BEER & BERRIES Festival Hospitalfield, Arbroath, UK. September 2020
FEAST Journal, Consuming Children Issue 1 2018
