Interspecies Supermarket with de Onkruidenier

As part of the New Year's Nutrition for Body & Mind program, we are submerging ourselves in the world of healthy and sustainable food at VOX-POP throughout the month of January. During this workshop, we will create our own "supermarket" where we will look for a new reality for our food system, with aisles where people and nature are not so strictly separated. Instead, we create a web of relationships where humans and nature intertwine infinitely.

Under the guidance of art collective de Onkruidenier, we speculate about a future food system that starts from the coastline: a landscape that is increasingly saltier and wetter. From a speculative drawing exercise and hybrid limestone objects created from the artistic symbiosis of different forms of land- and sea-based thinking: animal and non-animal, organic and inorganic, land-based or sea-based, we build new body-landscape relationships. Will you join us on this journey of discovery?

About de Onkruidenier

Art collective de Onkruidenier was founded in 2013 and the team consists of Jonmar van Vlijmen, Rosanne van Wijk and Ronald Boer. The collective investigates historical, cultural and potential transformations of nature and its potential for human evolution. They do fieldwork - often collaboratively with audiences - collecting plants and the stories and histories associated with them. As ecosystem futurists, they speculate on aquatic culture to arrive at new interpretations about the relationship between humans and (urban) nature, both above and below sea level. An important part of this is questioning systems that are often taken for granted. In the development of their work, interactions with audiences and experts such as farmers, residents and scientists create new narratives.

Practical information

The workshop takes place on January 26 and is from 16:00 to 18:00. Participation is free, but due to limited spots, we ask that you sign up in advance. Location: VOX-POP, Binnengasthuisstraat 9 (first floor BG3).