25.8.2022
AARG Movie Night
Hugo event space, Kalevan Navetta
Free entrance
AARG
AARG Movie Night is showing two videos, one is Asunción Molinos Gordon’s Purpose, Scope and Penalties from 2016 and the other one is Habib Ayeb’s document film Couscous: Seeds of Dignity from 2017. The videos are part of AARG gatherings artistic program that is held at the same day. Artixtic program is curated by Ida Enegren, who is interested in food production and its socio-ecological entanglements. AARG Art and the Rural Gathering is an annual discussion event addressing current themes in contemporary art and the countryside. The program of the Kunsthalle Seinäjoki is based on countryside and issues and phenomena arising from the urban-rural interface.
Free entrance to the movie night. The bar is serving beverages the first hour of the event.
AARG Evening program at Hugo event space
5:30 pm the bar is open (1h)
5:45pm Ida Enegren: welcome and introduction
6 pm Video: Asunción Molinos Gordo: Purpose, scope and penalties
6:20 Document: Habib Ayeb: Couscous: Seeds of Dignity
Commentary
20.00 The event ends
Purpose, Scope and Penalties
Asunción Molinos Gordo
2016, Video, 18 min
In the video Purpose, scope and penalties, three farmers and a researcher meet at a local café in Uchisar, Turkey, to drink tea and to discuss factors that impact farming and, in particular, to evaluate the consequences of the controversial seed law that was enacted in 2006. Seed law no. 5553 was carried through at record speed without the opportunity for citizens, farmers, or scientists to comment on it. The law regulates the production and selling of seeds and aims to restructure the seed sector to increase productivity and yield. Artist Molinos Gordo wants to shed light upon the bureaucratic and political obstacles faced by farmers.
Couscous: Seeds of Dignity
Habib Ayeb
2017, Document, 57 min
Couscous, with its various recipes, constitutes the staple food of all of the populations of the Maghreb region, including Tunisia. Almost self-sufficient in cereals until the beginning of the 20th century, Tunisia now imports more than half of its food needs as dependency increases year on year. The documentary, filmed in Tunisia, approaches food issues from a local viewpoint and highlights the food productions’ diversity and complexity that go beyond national borders. Couscous: Seeds of Dignity focuses on the political, social, economic, and ecological conditions of cereal and couscous production.
