beauty kit farm

durational performance   2018, 2019   the waag, mediamaticamsterdam, m4 gastatelier

the beauty kit farm is an eco-friendly cognitive-pleasure oriented farm that harvests erotic juices to produce beauty & well-being bio-products. it functions as a mobile research installation that adapts to the site-specific ecosystem of the space it inhabits, recycling and archiving living materials and producing within a symbiotic niche of synergic mutualism. this farm explores its own self-sustainable economic model of production and invites participants from all over the world to write sci-fi chapters in praxis time. ? between 2018 & 2021 six bkff have taken place & participants have come from mexico, uk, norway, australia, greece, usa, portugal, belgium, canada, chile, new zeeland, rumania, spain, netherlands, germany and italy to compose the farm facilitating team and the farm harvesters.

with farm harvesters / guest artists participants: ilona westrik, ira melkonyan, lorena gazmuri & vera van oostveen farm facilitators: farm weaver agnes schneidewind, house keeper nicolas schiefelbein, la patrona isabel burr raty, farm fertiliser elke van campenhout), curated by lucas evers, monica aerden & gaston ten horn co-produced with the waag & m4gastatelier amsterdam supported by amsterdams fonds voor de kunst, flanders state of the arts belgium, wab nadine collaborators fabric workshop janneke raaphorst, space & compost design nicolas schiefelbein. the second version of bkff happened over christmas time in 2018 and was mapped out in two different buildings that hold historical significance for the inhabitants of amsterdam: waag society & technology, former entry gate to the city located at the center of newmarket; and in m4gastatelier, platform for contemporary art, located in tettedore, a 20th century font design and production company. with farm harvesters / guest artists participants: bianca costiug, fiona blair, sasha bouman, harvester 25 (0.3), saskia van der kamp, celeste combes, kristine maurer, maud terhark, esther wanda dekker farm facilitators: house keeper nicolas schiefelbein, farm weaver agnes schneidewind, la patrona isabel burr raty farm fertiliser elke van campenhout. curated by willem velthoven & jans possel produced by anne lakeman co-produced with mediamatic amterdam supported by amsterdams fonds voor de kunst, flanders state of the arts belgium, wab nadine space design nicolas schiefelbei. over the summer time in august 2019 amsterdam the third farm was built inside mediamatic’s sluisdeurenloods, ex-canal lock gate warehouse and in its 6 small greenhouses. mediamatic is an art centre dedicated to new developments in the arts since 1983 focusing on nature, biotechnology and art+science, experimenting with new (living) materials and contributing to circular economies.

photocredits isabel burr raty, agnes schneidewind

https://www.isabel-burr-raty.com/bkff