‘In a deep cavern carved inside a frozen mountain on an island high up in the Arctic lies the most biodiverse room in the world. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault holds over one million samples of seeds from all around the world. The Vault serves as a ‘back-up’ in case disaster (e.g. fire, flood, civil war) strikes the genebanks holding the original collections. The Seed Cultures Initiative seeks to create an archive of visual artworks to help conserve the cultural heritage of seeds. Its aim is to celebrate the way seeds live within vast webs of interrelations and to honor the fertile bonds between biological and cultural diversity in agri-food systems.’
My work ‘Seeds/Church/Trousers’ An excercise in paraperetic seed collecting is included in the archive and will be on digital display as part of the AGRI-Cultures Seed-Links exhibition at Svalbard Seed Vault in the Norweigen Arctic, opening on Sat the 8thof June 19.
