Le goût du futur
2023 - ong.
2023 - ong.
Le goût du futur is an ongoing
artistic research project conceived by Alexandra Baumgartner and Isabelle Weber
as a video installation accompanied by photographic and sculptural elements. The project explores the nature of
time through an archaeological artifact from the Neolithic period – the Bread
of Twann – and questions the conventional understanding of foodstuffs as
inanimate goods. It invites reflection on the historically grown entanglements
between humans, cultivated plants, nourishment, and environment, as well as on
the myths that take root within the apparent facts they yield. The bread serves
as a speculative tool for time travel, situating human actors in new relations
to geological and more-than-human temporal horizons.
In Baumgartner and Weber’s practice, fragments from diverse sources of knowledge are brought into relation and fabulated upon. Layered across and against one another, images drawn from the archaeological storage facility in Bern, from bread researcher Max Währen’s personal archives and work diaries, and from staged settings trace both the emergence and the erosion of knowledge.
In Baumgartner and Weber’s practice, fragments from diverse sources of knowledge are brought into relation and fabulated upon. Layered across and against one another, images drawn from the archaeological storage facility in Bern, from bread researcher Max Währen’s personal archives and work diaries, and from staged settings trace both the emergence and the erosion of knowledge.
Filed under: artistic research, collaboration, video, installation
︎︎︎ Le goût du futur is part of the bread eaters work cycle.
︎︎︎ The work is co-created with Isabelle Weber.