photo: Ansis Starks, Erik Sjödin
Until May 8th at RIXC Gallery
“Grow_Ability” is an interdisciplinary art e
xhibition that explores issues of “food as energy”. The exhibition features three installations. Super Meal by the Swedish artist Erik Sjödin draws attention to the aquatic plant Azolla – one of the worlds fastest growing plants, which is a rich source of nutrients, yet unexplored as food. Folk Pharmacy by several Latvian artists and culture researchers, is an artistic interpretation of the use of indoor and wild plants as food and folk medicine.
The project Talk to Me is the most recent project by RIXC – an online interface through which one can talk to plants via the Internet, examining the old assumption that plants which had been talked to grow better. Talk to plants here.
For more information visit: renewable.rixc.lv.
Ronja Röckemann.
Ronja Röckemann was the intern of Cultura21 from April to July 2011. She has a Bachelor degree in the field of Cultural Sciences and will continue to study at Leuphana University in the Master program "Sustainability Sciences".
