Everything Under the Sun

Alternative Education Programme with:
Tue Greenfort (artist)
Thomas Harttung (an entrepreneur, biodynamic farmer, and co-founder of Aarstiderne in Denmark)
Kultivator artist collective
Roderic Sloan (Sea Urchin Hunter/ Fisherman)

Artistic Programme with:
Dafna Maimon (FI)
Egill Saebjörnsson (DE/IS)
Polonca Lovsin (SI)
Hanne Lippard (NO) and Natasja Loutchko (SE)
Leonie WoidtWallisser (AU) and Alice Grindhammer (DE) (expert on permaculture & waste management)

Curated by: Ece Pazarbaşı in collaboration with Agora e.V.

EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN is an interdisciplinary residency project that consists of a series of artistic events and an educational programme that approaches the current issues related to climate change, rejecting alarmism and mirroring all aspects of it on the Earth's landscape.

Scientists all over the world have arrived at the same conclusion: the world’s climate is in a constant flux since the Ice Age, thus it will continue changing. The new levels of precipitation and changing of temperature patterns brought infertile lands in many places around the globe, ironically it brought fertility and variety to agriculture in places like the Nordic countries.

In the course of planet earth’s history, these transformations of nature have called for human beings’ adaptation to certain conditions: new culinary approaches emerged through drought and abundance; which simultaneously brought new discourses about food in the artistic field.

EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN artist residency and alternative education programme aimed at creating a learning platform with the focus of creating series of mind opening interdisciplinary educational modules around the radius of art. The educational aspect of the project consists of 40 hours of teaching and additional advisor sessions around the concepts of food through different aspects of climate change in Nordic countries and beyond. It focuses on the subjects of`Transformation and Adaptation´ to develop its activities throughout the year of 2015 through art, climate change, food and participation.

Under the subject of Transformation, the programme utilizes the examples art and nutrition issues of the Nordic countries, not ignoring the fact that the global warming affects the Nordic lands positively.

Adaptation aims at building capacity by gathering artists and urban agriculture enthusiasts together to find alternative ways of adapting ourselves towards the results of the climate change, and finding solutions for self-sufficient healthy living.

Transformation, Study Everything Under the Sun invites artist Tue Greenfort to lead module #1 with Thomas Harttung (biodynamic farmer) that he has invited. For the module #2 Kultivator taught with Roderic Sloan (Sea Urchin Hunter/ Fisherman) in collaboration.

Both modules focused on artistic co-creativity around the issues of food and nature through climate change. While doing that it carries an experimental structure where series of talks, workshops, artistic cooking projects, performative dinners are used in an innovative approach.

Followed by an artistic programme that took place this Summer in Berlin, this is the edition in 2015, the program provided a framework for artists, chefs and other creative professionals to tackle these issues, rejecting alarmism and mirroring all aspects of climate change and its results on the Earth’s landscape.

* Everything Under the Sun is curated by Ece Pazarbasi in collabortion with Agora Collective e.V, and hosted by Agora Collective e.V. with the kind support of Nordisk Kulturfond, as part of the the Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme – CAPP – which is supported through the EU Creative Europe Programme.