Seed Organismo is an initiative to cultivate biodiversity and uncertainty, a project that aims to generate connectivity and engage in participatory networks for the exchange of seeds and ancestral agricultural knowledge. Seed Organismo is a call to action for institutions to take an active part in these processes and strengthen links with the agroecological initiatives in the cities.
The Seed Organismo initiative can manifest in different ways. On one hand, it is a digital platform that aims to connect similar proposals and seed libraries across borders. On the other hand, it displays as a performative act, “Seed Organismo. A rural dramaturgy”, which was first performed at Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid on June 13, 2024.
The video presented here is the recording of this first iteration of the play, accompanied by a text written collectively by the Suq Centeno Case Study group:
“The rural dramaturgy presented by the organism that studied “suq centeno”, which finds the voice of the vegetal and interacts with it in an attempt, or a movement towards the revitalisation of preservation, and towards care for the biodiversity of seeds and the impulse of a democratic metabolism that proposes new meanings, resistances and organizations.
We met in Madrid, in the hall of the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, among friends, seeds, relatives and other organic matter, to present a play, an idea, the will to meet and a way to relate. A proposal that showed through six acts: 1. the ontology of the seed through a sensorial immersion in its nature; 2. the contextual ecology and the revelation of the oppression carried out by the “industry” that has been created around it; 3. her [nature’s] history when humans and seeds were related before the oppressive systems to transmit a hope of possibilities; 4. our love towards the facilitation of a liberatory seed system; 5. the analysis of a decentralized self-organization in collaboration with the institutionalized; 6. a series of affirmations, questions and reconciliations to photosynthesise regeneration.
We want to promote the reimagining of what it means to collect contemporary art to promote the collection, redistribution, and awareness of seeds that help us spread diversity, international food sovereignty, and political, social, and environmental sustainability.
Through this artistic gesture, we raise the question of what we support with our consumption and how cultural institutions, museums, and exhibition halls could have an important role in promoting these necessary practices.“
Script from the performance available here.