Flash Lecture: Human Created Food Crisis by Shimul Saha, Artist, Co-Founder of Britto Arts Trust
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Flash Lecture: Human Created Food Crisis by Shimul Saha, Artist, Co-Founder of Britto Arts Trust
Description
Friday, 17 February 2023 10.20am
Venue: CREATE Tower, 1 Create Way, Theatrette Level 2, Singapore 138602
A human-created food crisis is often thought of as a famine resulting from war—and is sometimes weaponised as a tool of war between nation-states. Within nation-states, domestic food policy features as a critical component of economic and human development, parallel to processes of urbanisation and industrialisation. However, this drive of “development” is often countered by devastating implications for social, cultural, ecological biodiversity. Moreover, due to globalisation, food crises are not contained by geopolitical borders, and now, in belated acknowledgement of our planetary reality, food crises permeate at every scale, from microbiome to atmosphere. Food politics are life politics. Food has always been a big concern in projects by Britto Arts Trust. ZERO WASTE-FoodArt (2019) was initiated during the Covid-19 pandemic, where artists and art collectives, within Bangladesh and abroad, could grow, make and share food within their communities—while reutilising waste to grow, make and share art.
Venue: CREATE Tower, 1 Create Way, Theatrette Level 2, Singapore 138602
A human-created food crisis is often thought of as a famine resulting from war—and is sometimes weaponised as a tool of war between nation-states. Within nation-states, domestic food policy features as a critical component of economic and human development, parallel to processes of urbanisation and industrialisation. However, this drive of “development” is often countered by devastating implications for social, cultural, ecological biodiversity. Moreover, due to globalisation, food crises are not contained by geopolitical borders, and now, in belated acknowledgement of our planetary reality, food crises permeate at every scale, from microbiome to atmosphere. Food politics are life politics. Food has always been a big concern in projects by Britto Arts Trust. ZERO WASTE-FoodArt (2019) was initiated during the Covid-19 pandemic, where artists and art collectives, within Bangladesh and abroad, could grow, make and share food within their communities—while reutilising waste to grow, make and share art.
Date
2023-02-17
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Professional
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Offsite
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Yes
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No
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Citation
“Flash Lecture: Human Created Food Crisis by Shimul Saha, Artist, Co-Founder of Britto Arts Trust,” NTU CCA Singapore Digital Archive, accessed April 29, 2024, https://ntuccasingapore.omeka.net/items/show/4543.
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| This Item | Is Part Of | Item: NTU CCA IdeasFest 2023 FOOD: Eat. Secure. Sustain |
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