Hybrid Cabbage
The animation teased my presentation "Hybrid Cabbage", my final diploma project, and represents the cabbage's status of a hybrid: In a way of magical transformation the cabbage switches between the appearance of a freshly harvested head and a meal on the plate. The head is "nature" in a way of a plant on the field, and culture in the way of a harvested crop. Pickling vegetables is an old tradition practiced in a lot of different "cultures". The human hand lifting the magic cloth represents the cultural art of conjuring.
"Hybrid Cabbage" Installation
The installation was the second part of my artistic diploma. It started up with the collaboration with "Off Plate": For their event "Ist das Essen oder kann das weg?" which was dealing with the subject of food waste, I created three animations to announce the events online. These animations were presented in the installation on tablets, sewn in red-cabbage-dyed napkins.
To use one vegetables in different forms was a consequence from the event – it picks up the subject of food waste and the avoidance of it.
„Hybrid Cabbage“ is a personal translation of Bruno Latours hybrids, entities that can’t be put on one side of nature or culture— if you want to make this distinction. The installation presents a combination of animation, drawing in space, crafts, food preparation, fermentation, tradition, natural dye and gastronomy. The representation of red cabbage as plant and also ingredient and dye relates to the theory of hybrids and the questionability of separating nature and culture.
Each of the three days of the events ended with a collective dinner. That food was accompanied by wine from the tap – another sustainable aspect of the collective. With the tap station my illustrations were also appearing in the room.
For my presentation I had the chance to get the tap station of "ebb and flow", who are the start-up behind wine from tap and one part of "Off Plate".
Photos Installation views: Fenja Cambeis