Integrating Agriculture,

Landscape, Arts and Culture

· Matthew Groshek, Sedge Meadow Cultural Residency Program, Rudoplp, WI

· Donna Nuewirth, Executive Director, Wormfarm Institute, Reedsburg, WI

· Jay Salinas, Co-founder and Farmer, Wormfarm Institute, Reedsburg, WI

Moderated by

Matthew Glassman, Co-Artistic Director, Double Edge Theatre, Ashfield, MA

Matthew Groshek

facilitator | curator | steward

sedge meadow cultural residency program

assistant professor | graphic design

Department of Art and Design UWSP

all over the place | all in one

place : design, art, agriculture

cultural practice as a way of

knowing

ORIGINS

382 county road PPRudolph, WI 54475

ORIGINS : history, space, territory, people, other

EXPERIENTIAL VALUE : unexpected, unique, rich, fecund

CAROL EMMONS KOSMOS : artist’s installation at sedgemeadow site photograph 2012

CAROL EMMONS KOSMOS : artist’s installation at sedgemeadow site photograph 2012

MARIAN FARRIOR Deepening a relationship to nature through phenomenology and meditative practice: research images from sedgemeadow { soil samples + photograph } 2015

MICHALENE BOOTON FIFTY2FLAGS 2015

STEVEN DRISCOLL-HIXON FIFTY2FLAGS 2014

SHANNON LECHTER | ALEX GILLIS Hey! : 4 (or 5) Letters in a Field, installation 2015

RACHEL MONTOYA | DERECK STEGER SOUL : 4 (or 5) Letters in a Field, installation 2015 (night)

PRELUDE + PROGRESSION AS ARTIST + DESIGNER + CURATOR + STEWARD

de | construct { observe, attend and imagine. make devices to investigate and keep a watchful eye. make images with devices.explore. represent the world through pictures and objects. }>construct { translate the world from internal perspective, select, edit and curate, re-imagine the world by constructing experientialenvironments. activate devices to project self, tinker. }>co-create { construct with others, make and inhabit places, acknowledge a location within place. activate devices to projectothers / all / us / we / all-together-now. }

CURATORIAL + FACILITATE

co-create { construct with others, make and inhabit places, acknowledge a location within place. activate devices to projectothers / all / us / we. take care and attend to others. celebrate making and doing. }

identifying, selecting, and constructing a narrative ofmeaning by creating a collection of artifacts in a specificcontext. ( combination of objects, images, text, space, light, story, narrative, the body. )

FOOD IN PLACE : restoration, planting, foraging, stewarding

FOOD IN PLACE : harvesting, making, preserving

ORIGINS

MATTHEW GROSHEK | People of Rural Wisconsin print documents 2014

FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHERby observing we attend. >by attending we translate. >by translating we understand. >

By understanding we empathize. >

by empathizing we enter into an intimate relationship with the “other” and become the subject. >

by becoming the subject we becomeembedded in place. >

by becoming embedded in placewe become community. >

when we become communitywe find ourselves at home.

“What we attempt to create in our theatre is a living culture, a rebuilding of the fragments into an admittedly utopian integrity of human existence. We do this for ourselves, but also with the belief that we can share and transmit this experience to the people we meet. We must be committed to transforming our dangerous flirtation with extinction to the reality of a living and sustainable culture". Stacy Klein

“I call localization the economics of happiness, because in rebuilding the community fabric we’re helping

ourselves and our children to reestablish identities that we actually all of us deep down inside long for. We all want to be seen, recognized, heard, connected to one another.”

Helena Norberg-Hodge

1985 the Church of St Lukes and Margaret

a former dairy farm in

Ashfield, western Massachusetts - 1994

1996

2007

Student housing 2007

To create a living culture by developing the highest quality of original theatre performance, based on the long-term imaginative work of the ensemble and other artists and the rich interaction with the communities in which the work takes place.

Our Mission

1994cow stalls

Converted to housing in 1998 and dressing rooms in 2013

The UnPOSSESSEDbased on Don Quixote

The Garden Cycle:

The Grand Parade

Our Ensemble

Our Training

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Indoor/Outdoor Traveling Spectacles

The Odyssey Shahrazad, A Tale of Love and Magic

Community & ProgramsTraining, Gatherings, Exhibitions, Symposia, Concerts

Rural Initiative, Business Partnerships, Volunteerism, Farming

Volunteerism

Rural Arts and Culture ConveningAugust 2012

The Farm

More images…..

More stories……

Integrating Agriculture, Landscape,

Arts and Culture

ORIGINS

JUSTIN BEHM process : a body emerging and appearing | the spectral others, 2016

ERIC NOLAN FIFTY2FLAGS 2016

MATTHEW GROSHEK | People of Rural Wisconsin print documents 2014

FOOD FOR OTHERS : making added value

ALLISON WITTE | AMY GREENWOOD Hush: 4 (or 5) Letters in a Field, installation 2015