Abstract
Our proposal work was selected by an international jury of artists and scientists from 100 entries from all over the world for an exhibition called Agri Cultures Seed Links.
A single grain of wheat from the interior of a 133 year-dead 4.7m, salt water crocodile shot 1887 at the mouth of the no-longer-existing Serangoon river Singapore and kept for over a century in the Raffles Museum, migrated to the arctic circle was ceremonially buried in Platåberget, adjacent to the Svalbard Global Seed Bank on 10th June 2019. This was part of a contemporary art work by the Singapore-Helsinki situated Migrant Ecologies Project.
Works include
• The sole grain of wheat we have been able to glean so far from the wheat straw that was found inside the crocodile
• A concertina artists book the 4.7m length of the actual crocodile with sections addressed to the Mountain, the Crocodile the Grain and the Spirit of Panglima Ah Chong respectively
• A donation of one of the resin eyes from the Raffles Museum crocodile together with an assortment of beings that ended one life in the Migrant Ecologies studio in Singapore.
• A series of over 60 letters from invited artists and writers from around the world addressed to the grain of wheat, the crocodile and the spirit.
A single grain of wheat from the interior of a 133 year-dead 4.7m, salt water crocodile shot 1887 at the mouth of the no-longer-existing Serangoon river Singapore and kept for over a century in the Raffles Museum, migrated to the arctic circle was ceremonially buried in Platåberget, adjacent to the Svalbard Global Seed Bank on 10th June 2019. This was part of a contemporary art work by the Singapore-Helsinki situated Migrant Ecologies Project.
Works include
• The sole grain of wheat we have been able to glean so far from the wheat straw that was found inside the crocodile
• A concertina artists book the 4.7m length of the actual crocodile with sections addressed to the Mountain, the Crocodile the Grain and the Spirit of Panglima Ah Chong respectively
• A donation of one of the resin eyes from the Raffles Museum crocodile together with an assortment of beings that ended one life in the Migrant Ecologies studio in Singapore.
• A series of over 60 letters from invited artists and writers from around the world addressed to the grain of wheat, the crocodile and the spirit.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | Longyearbyen |
| Publisher | The Agri/Cultures Project |
| Publication status | Published - 8 Jun 2019 |
| MoE publication type | F1 Published independent work of art |
| Event | Agri/Cultures Seed Links: Conserving Cultural Connections with Seeds - Huset, Longyearbyen, Norway Duration: 8 Jun 2019 → 9 Jun 2019 https://www.seedcultures.com/svalbard-2019#/2019/ |
Field of art
- Contemporary art