Please join M12 and the BASELINE GROUP for the 2009 BIG FEED!
Sept. 25 to 26 Boulder, Colorado - USA
Artwork by Jonathan Nicklow
The Big Feed is M12's annual symposium and celebration of experimental contemporary art. It is a forum to connect like-minded artists in a casual atmosphere, as well as an opportunity for the public to learn more about the groundbreaking community and site-based work presented by the attending artists, critics, and curators.
SCHEDULE
Friday, Sept. 25
6-8p at BMoCA the BASELINE GROUP will open their exhibition titled "Chicken Shack Village"
The Baseline Group is a special topics course at CU-Boulder that engages fine art students-both graduate and undergraduate-in the processes of designing and implementing tangible large-scale projects. This class encourages students to develop work that is community-based, site-specific, and to incorporate non-traditional media and ideas. This first installation, titled the "Chicken Shack Village" explores rural aesthetics, farming, and "intuitive building." The project was created through 2-semesters of experiential activities and hands-on workshops that involved visiting artists Haiko Meijer from the Dutch design team Onix, and Marjetica Potrc, an award-winning artist from Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art | 1750 13th Street, Boulder CO
Saturday, Sept. 26
BIG FEED DAY!
This year M12 is teaming up with the BASELINE GROUP for the morning activities on BIG FEED day!
10a-1p at BMoCA the BASELINE GROUP will hold a roundtable series: Rural Art/Urban Agriculture"
In conjunction with the BASELINE GROUP's "Chicken Shack Village" project the students in Professor Richard Saxton's class have designed a symposium featuring two panel discussions. Beginning at 10am in BMoCA's upstairs multipurpose space the students have invited a group of local farmers and gardeners that have adopted urban farming, followed by panel of students from the BASELINE GROUP class that will explain the process of building and installing the "Chicken Shack Village." Speakers will address topics such as, the collaborative art process, raising chickens in the urban setting, building and maintaining coops, as well as local farming and gardening.
Invited panelists:
Anne P. Cure, Farm Manager from Cure Organic Farm
Dudley Dorrell, Tree Farm Natural Foods
Dallas Gilbert, Manager of the Eastern Plains Natural Co-op
Eille Goldberg, Boulder resident, backyard chicken raiser
Jane McMahan, Boulder resident, backyard chicken raiser
Kipp Nash, founder of Community Roots
Organized and moderated by CU graduate art student Adrianna Santiago-Pass
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art | 1750 13th Street, Boulder CO
5-7p THE BIG FEED
Rabbit Foot Ranch | 2275 Yarmouth Avenue, Boulder CO
Pot Luck Dinner (bring something to share)
Spit Roast
Beverages
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DJ Rockcrusher
7:30p (sunset)
Keynote Lecture
Marjetica Potrc: "The Cook, the Farmer, His Wife and Their Neighbour"
Marjetica Potrc is an artist and architect based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her interdisciplinary practice includes on-site projects, research, architectural case studies, and series of drawings. Her work documents and interprets contemporary architectural practices (in particular, with regard to energy infrastructure and water use) and the ways people live together.
"The Cook, the Farmer, His Wife and Their Neighbour" 2009, building materials, energy infrastructure, vegetable garden Stedelijk Goes West, Nieuw West, Amsterdam. Project by Marjetica Potrc and Wilde Westen. Supported by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Far West, Amsterdam; The Netherlands Architectural Fund, Rotterdam photo by Henriette Waal and Lucia Babina.
8:30p - LATE
Music by Danjo American Music
"Midwestern southern soul music with swivel hips and simple chords"
&
Campfire Jamboree with Bill Rumley (bring your instrument!)
Camping at the ranch is okay: bring your tent, sleeping pad, covered shoes, (there are many cacti), flashlights, and whatnot.
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