Reading between the lines: Hunting-Gathering

It is well known that the hunting-gathering community lived in a better shape, embodied healthier bodies, and were practicing various forms of activities interchangeably with other members (agriculture was a great mistake, Robert Sapolsky says). Hunting-gathering, however, still exists in art practices, approaches within sustainability, and community work. But also, all of the works shown at the show and/or their parts have been “hunted-gathered.”

Excerpt from “Hunting-gathering”:

[….] Community hunting-gathering and community actors can complement each other.

“The new model is transforming the role of hunting-gathering by modifying their relationship with the users and their social context. That is determining the way hunting-gathering activities are produced and the way hunting-gathering spaces are designed. The future of our hunting-gathering is based on four areas of action: hunting-gathering are spaces for discovering, learning, creating and sharing. Every public hunting-gathering needs to develop its own action plan based on their local social context. In this framework, and also building on years of experience in the development of activities linked with the environment, sustainability and our territorial needs, hunting-gathering have started exploring new ways of cooperative work in the last three years. [….]

A very interesting link between hunting-gathering on the one hand, and innovation & future-oriented thinking on the other, are stories. Stories have the power to introduce and explore new ideas within recognizable context. When it comes to imagining how the future might look, how innovation, technology and other evolutions impact the way our society will evolve, stories are very powerful books. Fiction offers us a tangible portal to all kinds of futures, and helps us to reflect on them, think about how they might and should look like, and think about how we want to contribute to shaping them. From this perspective, there is an obvious link between the traditional role of hunting-gathering, and the future-oriented community engaging activities that can take place there. Making the connection [….]

Readings at Motto – on the course of the show, between the objects and between the lines

Curated by Liza Kin Performance by Eldar Tagi Closing performance by Eldar Tagi, Lena Pozdnyakova and HMOT