Becoming with Wheat (and Other More-Than-Human Others) (2018-2022)

Couch, Amanda (2021) Becoming with Wheat (and Other More-Than-Human Others) (2018-2022). [Craft, Curation, Exhibition/show, Installation, Performance, Photography, Site-specific work, Video]

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Becoming with Wheat (and Other More-Than-Human Others) 2021

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Installation shot of Becoming with Wheat (and Other More-Than-Human Others) Ongoing Performances of the World 2021

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Installation shot of Becoming with Wheat (and Other More-Than-Human Others) (Sowing Mask) 2021 & (Sowing Mask) 2020 & Anthotypes display

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Installation shot of Becoming with Wheat (and Other More-Than-Human Others) (Sowing Mask), 2021

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Becoming with Wheat (and Other More-Than-Human Others) (Sowing Mask) 2020

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Detail of Becoming with Wheat (and Other More-Than-Human Others) (Sowing Mask), 2020

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Detail of Anthotype display in Forces for Change Galleries

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Close up of Becoming with Wheat (and Other More-Than-Human Others) Grain Spirit, 2022

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Installation of Becoming with Wheat (and Other More-Than-Human Others) Grain Spirit 2021

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Becoming with Wheat (and Other More-Than-Human Others) (Harvesting Mask) 2019

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Becoming with Wheat (and Other More-Than-Human Others) Ritual Apron 2020

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Creators:

Couch, Amanda

Description/Abstract:

Becoming with Wheat (and Other More-Than-Human Others) 2018-2022 was developed as part of The Commons: Re-enchanting the World, an ACE funded project that I co-curated with Catherine Morland at the University of Reading’s Museum of English Rural Life, known as The MERL from 2020-2022. Becoming with Wheat… responded to the idea of a more-than-human commons, where a collective of human and non-human others are all in relation, interdependent and entangled.

Drawing on Annette Arlander’s articulation of the artistic-research process as being akin to that of a ‘dispersed vegetal being’, Becoming with Wheat… is a scattering, manifesting not as a single outcome, rather multiple crops, germinations, and cycles, many of which are speculative and interconnected in their growth and evolution: growing, milling, baking, eating, strawcraft, filming, anthotype making, and writing. It is an exploration of wheat, its histories, mythology, materiality, and relationships. Also central to the project are Donna Haraway’s ideas of companion species: The root of ‘companion’ being derived from the Latin cum panis meaning, ‘with bread’, reminding us of our relationship to others through food, our eating together and being eaten.

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Art/Design Item

Date:

1 July 2021

Material:

Straw, wheat, video, Somerset paper, wood, plant emulsion, digital printed cotton, raised beds

Funders:

University for the Creative Arts, Arts Council England

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