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Where the Green Ants Dream

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Accumulation by Dispossession - David Harvey

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1. Carrot Workers Collective

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1. On Air and Imaginaries | Hanna Husberg (Mutating Ecologies in Contemporary Art, GD)
2. Cloud ecologies: weather, pollution, time and data | Fiona Curran ((Mutating Ecologies in Contemporary Art, GD)

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Where do you go when you leave | Northeast Lightbox

Sheba Chhachhi - Water Diviner

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Hanna Husberg:

Often People Ask How Birds Are Affected By The Air – A Project By Hanna Husberg

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I have a dream (Community Project in Vancouver Biennale) - Shweta Bhattad

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5. Protest Organizations and Awareness programmes

Gram Art Project

6. Other Organisations:

- Vikalp Sangam
- Shikshantar   [ ecoversities]
- Jungle Oasis Permaculture Project [Goa]
- La Via Campesina [Global Solidarity network for peasant's movements]
- Food Sovereignity Alliance
- Beejotsav ( Prajakta Atul  , Nagpur)
- School of Commons
- Tara Lasrado - Under the Mango Tree

7. Networks:

Rakshith (Circles & spheres as an important form - an umbrella shape)

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Walid Raad

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Have you seen the arana?

The film interweaves contemporary narratives with an ancient tribal myth to explore the effects of a rapidly changing landscape on lives and livelihood. Set in Wayanad, part of a rich and bio-diverse region in South India.

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Some important female farmers and activists:

- Rahibai Soma Popere : Conservation of Maharashtra's native seed varieties

-Pappammal : Organic farmer and conservator based in Coimbatore

- Kavitha Kuruganti

-The Women Farmers of Medak

- Women sustain traditional wisdom of conserving indigenous seeds

- Repository of articles on gender

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-Sebastio Salgado - Instituto Terra

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Soil, photosynthesis and self-growing images |

The Corruption of the Eye: On Photogenesis and Self-Growing Images

Soil as archive | Digging up the past by Dubravka Sekulic (GD)

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Reliable Copy: At the kitchen table

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1. Conservation of Indigenous Seeds - Tamil Nadu
2.The Pioneering Female Botanist Who Sweetened a Nation and Saved a Valley - Kerala
3. Artist Maria Thereza Alves Is Charting the History of Migration in NYC Using Seeds
4. Seed Matter: Reseedling the Herbarium | Christine Mackey (Mutating Ecologies, GD)

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An excerpt from a folktale about cultivating integrity:

Lead by avoiding the following

You will harvest distrust If you plant selfishness

You will harvest loneliness If you plant pride

You will harvest isolation If you plant greed

Lead by doing the following

If you plant honesty, You will harvest trust

If you plant humility, You will harvest friendship

If you plant forgiveness, You will harvest reconciliation

If you plant patience, You will harvest understanding

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1. The Emperor’s Seed — A Story About Integrity

2. THE MAGIC OF SEEDS – AND THE WONDERS OF GROWTH
3. Folktales from Maharashtra: The Mouse’s Share
4. Folk Tales of Central India
5. Seeds of Connection, Seeds of Change: Botanical Folktales for Ecological and Relational Storytelling
6. Words as Grain: Poems by Duo Duo

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Grass-roots level collectives and new economic models

1. Scroll’s Eco -India Project: Models of self-sustenance:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=eco+india

2. The women farmers in Maharashtra who are fighting for their right to own land:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzTqCQLXjj8

3. Armed with microfinance loans, rural women in Kolkata are kickstarting fruit nurseries https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKrugV5JXt4

4. How technology is helping farmers in Telangana tackle devastating effect of crop failures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hYjXrKgKKo
5. https://www.villagesquare.in/2020/12/02/women-farmers-leverage-collective-power-to-form-producer-company/
6. Women farmers leverage collective power to form producer company

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Exhibition: ParaSite: A Tale: The Land of Fish and Rice

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- https://www.dhakaartsummit.org/  [ the affective quality of tremors ; shifts // could be envisioned as flows , roots and stem systems etc.

-https://www.asianartbiennial.org/2019/content/upload/manual.pdf

[the diagram: The diagram is neither a theoretical model nor a storyline. It is a tool we made in order that we can make a stage to be inhabited, and activated by the works, thoughts and presences of artists, thinkers and collaborators. The exhibition unfolds in four interconnected chapters.]

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1. Sustaining Assembly - Announcements - e-flux
2. Vegetation as a political agent
3. Manifesta 12: Cultivating Coexistence

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1. Each part can deal with one of the processes  and the core    element / affective dimension of the same.

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Field as architecture and how planning becomes an act of violence: Dharmendra

Cyclical and seasonal changes in land, soil's materiality, both due to time and industrial developments (toxicity): Rakshith, Sujit

Soil School
-Constitution of soil and conversations around soil
-Lab Analysis + Carbon Components > Land forms and Geology (or Geography)
-Soil degradation
-Soil erosion ( from one plain to another)
-Dust Bowl (Interstellar) - Dust Visitations

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Man - Animal Conflict

Dispacement of other animal and bird species :
lecture performance on dwindling population of European Roller by Hillside Projects

Water Contamination (Dharmendra)

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Evaluating our enquiries into the agrarian

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Evaluating our enquiries into the agrarian

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How do we rethink and re-evaluate the following?
- Raw Material
- Process - Rhythms and Habits
- Produce
- Product
- Value
- Exchange Value
- Ownership
- Consumption
- Waste

-What is a farm?

-How can the word CULTIVATION be rethought?
in terms of :

- values ( Gram Art) ,
- lineages ( Blaise) ,
- oral traditions ( Dharmendra) ,
- local and indigenous practices and knowledge systems ( Dharmendra , Sujith),
- patient and sensitive lifestyle ; habits (Rakshith)
- Happiness quotient ( Gram Art)

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Gram Art Collective:

- Dichotomies between a protest's national and regional reach
- Role as an artist and a farmer in respective communities (Sujit)
-specific and local repercussions caused due to change in laws
- Programmes that can help create awareness [ Condition of Mandis , MSP , IPR and Patenting seed varieties ]
- build solidarity networks across regions - different models of communication , distribution and representation
- How can Andolans take a cultural form?

-Lumbung Calling : Series of talks on different affective conditions as part of documenta 15

- Keywords to center these solidarities:
HOPE
STRENGTH
FREEDOM
GENEROSITY
SUSTAINABILITY
CARE
ATTENTION
SECURITY
CO-HABITATION / ADAPTATION
SELF-RELIANCE
NEED-TIME-TOIL-SOIL

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1. Governmental:

Schools & Curriculae:
Blaise Joseph (Art by Children)
Dharmendra Prasad (Harvest School)

2. Corporate:

Sujit Mallik (Collectives in the form of companies)

3. Sangha:

Dharmendra Prasad (Carebiosphere )
Rakshith K.
Gram Art (Women Groups)

ECOSYSTEM, AGROSYSTEM
Concept of Participation, Collectivism, People (Agamben's text), Publics (Habermas , Nancy Fraser , Michael Warner etc.)

Sujit Mallik (Soil School)

4. Familial:

Blaise Joseph (Generational and Religious - Jesuit)

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1.Farmers Khata [ Student Biennale 2021]
2. Nilamani Phukon on Art and Practice ( sowing and reaping)
3. Masanobu Fukuoka- One Straw Revolution
4. Kheti Badi - Chinar Shah
5. Where The Goats Are
6. Thao Nguyen Phan
7. Sawangwonghse Yawnghwe

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Protecting crops from biopiracy is good for farmers and the future of food

Building the Seed Cathedral | Thomas Heatherwick
https://seedlink.plus

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1. Cultural Loss from Modern Agricultural Practices by Dr Vandana Shiva

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1. The women farmers in Maharashtra who are fighting for their right to own land
2. Armed with microfinance loans, rural women in Kolkata are kickstarting fruit nurseries

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1. Disruption in Agricultural Technology in India: Dr.Ashok Gulati
2. How tech is helping farmers in Telangana tackle the devastating effect of crop failures

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1. Understanding the Farm Bills

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1. Svalbard Global Seed Vault: Cary Fowler
2. Exploration of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault[text]
3.An exhibition based on Svalbard Global Seed Vault - Seeds of Time

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1. Art and Hunger: Transnational Frames, MAHASSA at DAS 2020

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1. Socially Engaged Art and Agriculture: Experimenting with Extension

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1. Decolonizing Munshi Premchand
2.The Earthly Community-Achille Mbembe

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1. Art India’s Food Edition: Lead Essay

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1. Gigi Scaria
2.Leone Contini
3.Rohini Devasher
4.Namrata Neog and Sunoj D
5.Ravi Agarwal
6. Dear Climate

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1. Brick Landscape and Tar Studies: Bijoy Jain

2. Landversation: Otobong Nkanga

3.Mark Garry: Songs for the Soil
podcast(ep:1)
[Rashmi's sounds of the farm project]
4.Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs : Exhibition pdf - ParaSite

5. Skin of Chitwan- Exhibition

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1. Veda Thozhur Kolleri
2.C.F.John

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1. Documenta fifteen: Ruangrupa
2. Food Art Research Network (FAR)
3. Struggles for Sovereignty

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1. Potential Agrarianisms: Kunsthalle Bratislava

2. Notes on Kochi (Biennale) and Katowice (Climate Summit): Kadambari Baxi
3. Whitechapel Gallery: The Rural: Contemporary Art and Spaces of Connection
4. Documenta 13: Disowning Life conference
5. Feral Atlas
6. The 17th Istanbul Biennale: Curatorial Note

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1. Yinchuan Biennale: 'Starting from the Desert. Ecologies on the Edge:' Tessa Moldan

2. Eating the Sun: Alice McSherry, Paul Moss, and Amba J. Sepie

3. Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology | Third Text

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1. Reciprocal Caretaking: Tracie Dunn

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1. AGAM PURAM - Students' Biennale 2016
2. Prabhakar Pachpute I
3. Prabhakar Pachpute II
4. Shambhavi Singh
5. V V Vinu

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1. Who’s Afraid of Ideology? Ecofeminist Practices Between Internationalism and Globalism: Marwa Arsanios

2. Defeminisation of Indian agriculture

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1. Materialities and the Making of a Protest: Sarover Zaidi
2. The Gift of Food: Sarover Zaidi
3.Medha Patkar on Land Ordinance Bill ( an interview)
4. Trees, More-Than-Human Collectives
5. The Vectoralist Class

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1. Seeds of Change: Maria Thereza Alves
2. Gul e Curfew: Moonis Ahmad Shah
3. Boochi Project - a part of Serendipty Festival's Food Lab- eating insects