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| Time of residency | May 2024 |
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| Contact info | www.cherrytruluck.co.uk |
| Definition of artistic practice? | Interdisciplinary artist working with food, science, farming and performance |
| Title of the investigation at the residency | The rhubarb is the beginning (is the end is the beginning…) |
| Description of investigations and findings | Growing from socially engaged practice in the UK, where I worked with a group of women to cook local, seasonal food, my investigation picked up the thread of our key ingredient – rhubarb. On Bornholm, I found that the rhubarb season had just begun and after meeting smallholder and rhubarb grower Jesper, I explored a triptych of narrative connecting the ingredient across geographies, temporalities and seasons. |
| What are you most curious about or invested in in your own practice? | - Defining an idea of long term temporal praxis - Connecting to the land through (locally grown) food and cyclical processes - Exploring art as research (particularly around food) by storying specific |
| What questions did you bring to investigate and what questions are you leaving with? | I arrived with a very broad enquiry about metabolism as a temporal quality, bringing my own ongoing research around the growing cycle of oat plants. I left with a more focused question about the connection between the senses in the way I bring together food and performance. |
| Transformative, creative moments at the residency | The turning point in my stay at BIRCA was undoubtedly the trip to Jesper’s market garden. Farmers/Growers are very significant to my artistic research as they ‘unlock’ an embodied and intuitive connection with the land that really helps me to develop my own understanding. |
| Keywords for the work done at the residency | Cooking, Rhubarb |
| Research locations | Skovfryd |
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