Rachel Bordeleau, Jeanette Hart-Mann, Chrissie Orr and Oliver Vodeb: SeedBroadcast and the Wisdom of the Seeds
What carries more wisdom than the seed? Rachel Bordeleau, Jeanette Hart-Mann and Chrissie Orr collaborate on SeedBroadcast, a transdisciplinary art project from New Mexico USA, raising the culture of agri-culture and putting the seed in the centre of our relations with the world. In this podcast episode they speak with Oliver Vodeb about the different and intimate dimensions of their work learning from the seed and using the knowledge to empower our understanding and our relations.
SeedBroadcast and Memefest met already in 2014, when SeedBroadcast was an amazing travelling art van in USA, using a multi-media approach to open-polinating net-works with seedy action. Pirate media, the internet, digital, face 2 face, the van as an exhibition space and more allowed them to be in many places at the same time and in different ways. They met and engaged with people replicating connectivity across social conditions and diverse environments to counter the homogenisation of monocultural industrialism and corporate patent regimes.
Another amazing intervention is their SeedBroadcast agri-Culture Journal a bi-annual collection of poetry, inspired thoughts, essays, photographs, drawings, recipes, How-to’s and wisdom. It is gathered from a national call out to lovers of local food and seeds. It is largely distributed via a reciprocal arrangement, where co-contributors to the journal receive hard copies and plant them as seeds in their local environments. You can download, read and share their latest edition of the Journal here or see all the journal editions here.
SeedBroadcast are reclaiming agri-Culture as a relational, grassroots practice, where open-source tools, multi-media storytelling, and seed sovereignty become forms of resistance and collective world-building. Through more than a decade of performative engagements, SeedBroadcast cultivate rhizomatic networks of people, stories, and seeds that counter industrial homogenization with shared agency, creativity, and the living knowledge of the commons.
SeedBroadcast are featured in Radical Intimacies. Find more about the book: here.
PODCAST CREDITS:
Hosted by: Oliver Vodeb/ Memefest. The podcast is a collaboration between Memefest and Intellect publishers.
Music: Thanks to Bait for their song Property Law. Two best friends meeting seasonally in bucolic surrounds to generate improvised music. Property Law recognises the Indigenous peoples of the world's relationship to land. As in, "we don't own the land. The land owns us." Each of us is only passing through. Empires, Epochs come & go, but the spirit of the land persists.