15th Gwangju Biennale
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SubjectDec 12 GB Talks | Rising to Surface: Practicing Solidarity Futures

Talk | Kkureomi: UNBOXING with Sisters

Rice Brewing Sisters Club        

Saturday, December 12, 2020

10–11.30am CET / 6–7.30pm Gwangju time

Join : https://zoom.us/j/92624453720 (ZOOM ID : 926 2445 3720)
The discussion will be held in Korean, with English simultaneous interpretation.


 

A box of locally-grown crops sent directly from women farmers to consumers, kkureomi materializes overlooked forms of labor and brings economic independence to women. Three sister communities from South Korea—Rice Brewing Sisters Club, the Sister’s Garden, and organicpunk—come together for a special session, in which they will be unboxing a kkureomi package together with ten guests including artists, writers, farmers, chef, community organizers, and activists, joining from home and abroad. Please join our conversation as we unwrap the kkureomi, in Rice Brewing Sisters Club’s words, “a box of goods and goodies made from the sisters’ joint harvest and research this year,” and make our way through indigeneity, soil and land, community farming, ecological thinking, and micro/macro forms of solidarity.

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Courtesy of Rice Brewing Sisters Club


Rice Brewing Sisters Club (Aletheia Hyun-Jin Shin, Soyoon Ryu and Hyemin Son) is a collective of sisters who experiments with "social fermentation" as an artistic form, by creating open-ended platforms for visual art, performance, cooking, creative writing, and auntie wisdoms. @ricebrewingsistersclub

Sister's Garden is an independent cooperative of women farmers and social enterprise that practices community-supported agriculture and food sovereignty through a kkureomi project. Initiated by Korean Women Peasants Association (KWPA), the Sister’s Garden currently includes over 300 members and 19 local branches spread around South Korea. https://sistersgarden.org

organicpunk is an urban farmer and a freelance journalist who writes stories of women peasants and activists. She organizes various projects on the subject of sustainable agriculture, zero-waste, and local farming communities. http://organicpunk.farm