Planting a SEED

Mixed-media exhibition grows agricultural wisdom.

THE ANCIENT PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE is getting a contemporary artistic treatment through the fusion of creative-community collaboration, installation, digital media, and performance in SEED: Climate Change Resilience, a new exhibition opening at Albuquerque Museum.

The exhibition is part of an ongoing effort by the artist collective, SeedBroadcast, to explore bioregional arid-land agriculture and climate change, and share this with the public. SeedBroadcast began nine years ago and is led by artists Jeanette Hart-Mann, Chrissie Orr, and Ruben Olguin. They intend to uplift the culture in agri-culture through inciting creative dialogue and action. Two years of work with New Mexico farmers and the public led up to the exhibition.

A series of large-scale photo collages is central to SEED. The photos express the complex interactions between farmers, the specific cultural practices in which they work, the ecology of their lands, the cyclical nature of agriculture, and the overarching changes happening as a result of global warming. The exhibition highlights traditional and sustainable farming practices in three different communities, including young farmers from Acoma Pueblo, an indigenous community organization in Española creating a “healing oasis,” and a northern New Mexico farmer dedicated to growing resilient openpollinated seeds. It also includes a

SEED: Climate Change Resilience, explores bioregional arid-land agriculture and climate change, in partnership with the Acoma Ancestral Lands Program and Farm Corp.

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sculptural installation of “Seed Stories,” several textual wall pieces, and a participatory space resembling the SeedBroadcast’s traveling Mobile Seed Story Broadcasting Station.

SeedBroadcast and their partners will present events during the exhibition such as a Seed Slam performance featuring Albuquerque’s Poet Laureate, Michelle Otero, and an outdoor earthwork garden growing seasonal heritage plants. Film screenings, a seed exchange, panel discussions with farmers from regional communities and pueblos, and several hands-on workshops will offer visitors a chance to participate. For SeedBroadcast, the participatory and collaborative aspect of this exhibition is critical, along with acknowledging that “project partners and collaborators are as much the animators and creators of this work as we are.”

ON VIEW: JUNE 22–SEPTEMBER 22, 2019 SEED: Climate Change Resilience

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