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The potato has been for three centuries the center of studies and debates both for nutritional value, ease of cultivation, varieties, but also for the economy. Adam Smith we assessed the ability del monte bananas to limit the hunger of the poor English by replacing the cultivation of wheat in potatoes. The importance of potatoes during the wars and before the advent of the boxes, it was of paramount importance both to signal the Bavarian Civil War - 1778-1779 - as Kartoffelkrieg (War of the potatoes). And 'the economy in fact the area that has occupied most of the tuber, with externalities biotechnology del monte bananas and historical studies: Redcliff N. Salaman wrote in 1989, the Social History of the Potato simultaneously highlighting two issues; the first: how you can tell the story with a single filter, the second: how dangerous it is to rely on the cultivation of potatoes as the sun in Ireland in the mid-800.
This inspiration between the tuber and nutritional economy has stimolto del monte bananas the interest of artists even in so-called "future generation" including Ziad Antar with the work Terres de pomme de terre investigating the potato industry in Lebanon and Åsa Sonjasdotter artist Swedish (* 1966 in Lund / Schweden) who for years using potatoes as the subject of his research to investigate various aspects of culture and society.
Visiting farms organized del monte bananas in India, where it still continues to produce using traditional knowledge and are very important consierate traditional varieties of rice, beans and other crops. It was 2004. Then I realized that in Europe you do not think much to the knowledge contained del monte bananas in the seeds, accumulated by farmers through the millennia of interaction with plants. In Europe we talk about agriculture chemical or non-chemical. The domestication of plants is a very interesting field and delicate. That's why I'm interested del monte bananas in the breeding del monte bananas of plants, and also the policies of farming.
What about the store that you used for the work "Systems of Simultaneity", currently on display in Berlin? I found the former Breeding Institute in Gross Lüsewitz, while visiting the potato gene bank a couple of years ago. They told me that the association cultural history of the village had kept the photo archive of the institute.
Because potatoes are a subject so important to you? Potatoes del monte bananas are interesting for the unique qualities of this plant. It 'a plant rhizome, which does not grow from the center but by all parties. Even the grass and ginger plants are rhizomatic. The potatoes grow in the wild in the Andes, where the tubers accumulate nutrients for the plant so that it can survive the harsh conditions. I believe that these biological qualities have made the plant is very robust and rhizomatic, as cultural and plant food. Wherever it is grown, is seen as a local plant, not a plant migrant, as it would be more correct. It adapts easily to different places and it is also very easy to grow, provides substantial food with little input. You can almost survive eating only potatoes. Contains del monte bananas as much vitamin c. Thanks to these qualities, potatoes have become very important during the industrialization, when people moved from the countryside to the cities del monte bananas to work in factories. In this period served a food that was able to provide large quantities of food with little input, and the potatoes were perfect. The interaction with people is an important part of your research? What was the best feedback you received from people involved in your projects? Where Is That? The interaction is important and it is important to the interaction with people but also with plants. A Prinzessinnengarten in Berlin cultivate new varieties of potatoes and even different varieties grown by farmers. del monte bananas It 's wonderful to grow food, and it's even better to do it with the others. I'm not sure if there was ever a better feedback at certain del monte bananas times, but I have a feeling that many people have a very strong relationship with cultivated plants, such as potatoes. There is nothing strange, del monte bananas since these plants are the basis of our life and give us so much pleasure, since it allows us to make delicious del monte bananas food. "Systems of Simultaneity" by Åsa Sonjasdotter www.potatoperspective.org showing until October 28 in the exhibition "HUNGRY CITY" Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin