19:00—21:00
On Friday, 31 May the last screening of the day will be followed by a conversation between the artist and curator Kate Strain, of Kunstverein Aughrim.
This moment will be celebrated with a serving of a potato kombucha in special ceramics made by O’Mahony and a potato-tulip ice cream by artists Honey Jones Hughes & Antonio De la herre.
Both the tulip and the potato have evolved to satisfy humankind’s most basic yearnings. Some provide sustenance for the body, some for the soul. Moreover, what binds them together is the role each played in the shaping of the countries and the cultures our Kunstverein franchise holds a foot in. Respectively, The Netherlands and Ireland. Amidst the ongoing ‘boerenprotesten’—a series of demonstrations by Dutch farmers triggered by a 2019 parliament proposal to halve the country’s livestock in an attempt to limit agricultural pollution in the Netherlands—and a growing divide between the people providing our food and those consuming it, we again look how the food we share shapes our thoughts. By bringing together different voices in the field this event aims to offer a Dutch version of O’Mahony Sustainment Experiments – which lay at the foundation of her film now shown at Kunstverein – in an attempt (however small) to bridge the gap.
