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Book launch of Seasonal Matters Rural Relations by Seasonal Neighbours

Join us for the book launch of Seasonal Matters: Rural Relations by Seasonal Neighbours at RADIUS, Delft

Onomatopee

Join us for the book launch of Seasonal Matters: Rural Relations by Seasonal Neighbours

When: June 7th, 2024, 18:00 - 21:00
Where: RADIUS, Delft

Seasonal Matters: Rural Relations is a book that reconsiders contemporary rural challenges through relationships rather than oppositions. Based on seasonal work experiences, it delves into the realm of contemporary agriculture and European labour migration, exploring the socio-political implications on rhythms, rituals, and cohabitation in Europe’s countryside.

Doors open at 18:00. We will be in the main building on the mezzanine, though it is unfortunately not a wheelchair-accessible space. The event will be in English and will end at 21:00. If needed, we also speak many other languages and can whisper in translation. (RO, FR, NL, RU, SP, DE)

Publication

Onomatopee 252, Seasonal Neighbours, 2024

Seasonal Matters Rural Relations (ENG edition)

(Field)notes on rhythms, rituals and cohabitation

€ 25

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What if traditional relationships, between humans and non-humans, plants, the weather and the rhythm of the seasons, are being lost in the race for profit and for increasingly intensive methods of production? In sixteen contributions, interdisciplinary collective Seasonal Neighbours attempts to observe, record and archive narratives for the existing, disappearing and newly emerging relationships in the countryside.

Both theoretical and artistic contributions serve as a guide for perceiving the agricultural landscape. As a collage-style field-guide, Seasonal Matters Rural Relations addresses the role that artistic practices and fieldwork can play in the complexity of rural relations. The collective reflects on storytelling and the variety of themes from the evolution of metabolisms in horticulture, the changing rural landscape, stories of European labor migration to questions of robotisation and upscaling, domesticity, public space, new forms of citizenship, etc.

Seasonal Matters Rural Relations, (Field)notes on rhythms, rituals and cohabitation gathers different nuances of the agricultural realities experienced by the collective members in their neighbouring processes, working side by side with farmers, seasonal workers, plants and crops. These fieldwork experiences helped shape a variety of contributions moving from visual essays to graphic collages, poems, maps, short stories, picking songs and musical scores to intercultural recipes with wild plants.

With contributions by: Claire Chassot, Jonathan De Maeyer, Anastasia Eggers, Fernando Garcia-Dory (Inland), Ciel Grommen, Pia Jacques, Carolien Lubberhuizen, Ioana Lupascu, Sébastian Marot, Karolina Michalik, Yacinth Pos, Caroline Profanter, Maximiliaan Royakkers, Ines Marita Schaerer, Arnd Spahn, Mona Thijs and Ewoud Vermote.

Type
Softcover
Dimensions
125 x 188 mm
Pages
304
ISBN
978-90-833621-8-2
Editor
Anastasia Eggers, Ils Huygens
Author
Seasonal Neighbours
Graphic
Bonsma & Reist
Language
English
Release date
20240531
Binding
Perfect bind
Paper
70 gsm Holmen TRND 2.0, 170 gsm Arena Rough White
Edition
1200
Printer
Wilco, Amersfoort
Onomatopee project manager
Jesse Muller and Natasha Rijkhoff
Proofreader
Patrick Lennon
Made possible by
Flemish Community, Grensverleggers, Provincie Limburg, Provincie Noord-Brabant, Provincie Zeeland, deBuren
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Onomatopee 252.1, Seasonal Neighbours, 2024

Seasonal Matters Rural Relations (NL edition)

Notities uit het veld: over samenleven, rituelen en ritmes

€ 25

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Wat gebeurt er als we hedendaagse uitdagingen op het platteland beschouwen als relaties in plaats van tegenstellingen? Vanuit veldwerk ervaringen verkent Seasonal Neighbours de wereld van de hedendaagse landbouw en Europese arbeidsmigratie.

Seasonal Matters Rural Relations traceert ritmes, rituelen en samenlevingsvormen op het Europese platteland en verkent de sociopolitieke impact die zij genereren. Het resultaat is een eigenzinnige verzameling van essays en interviews tot tekeningen en recepten.

In Seasonal Matters Rural Relations - Notities uit het veld: over samenleven, rituelen en ritmes worden de stemmen van landbouwers, arbeiders, geëngageerde burgers, kunstenaars en ontwerpers met elkaar vermenigvuldigd tot een gelaagde en veelzijdige conversatie.

Met bijdragen van: Claire Chassot, Jonathan De Maeyer, Anastasia Eggers, Fernando Garcia-Dory (Inland), Ciel Grommen, Pia Jacques, Carolien Lubberhuizen, Ioana Lupascu, Sébastian Marot, Karolina Michalik, Yacinth Pos, Caroline Profanter, Maximiliaan Royakkers, Ines Marita Schaerer, Arnd Spahn, Mona Thijs en Ewoud Vermote.

Type
Softcover
Dimensions
125 x 188 mm
Pages
304
ISBN
978-90-833621-5-1
Editor
Anastasia Eggers, Ils Huygens
Author
Seasonal Neighbours
Graphic
Bonsma & Reist
Language
Nederlands (Dutch)
Release date
20240531
Binding
Perfect bind
Paper
70 gsm Holmen TRND 2.0, 170 gsm Arena Rough White
Edition
200
Printer
Wilco, Amersfoort
Onomatopee project manager
Jesse Muller and Natasha Rijkhoff
Translator
Ils Huygens
Proofreader
Patrick Lennon
Made possible by
Flemish Community, Grensverleggers, Provincie Limburg, Provincie Noord-Brabant, Provincie Zeeland, deBuren
more specs

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