Artists’ Film: Gerard Ortín Castellví, Agrilogistics

25 May 2022 6.30-8pm

Overview

Join us for the UK premiere of Agrilogistics (2021), a film that looks at recent technological transformations in contemporary industrial agriculture, followed by a conversation with the artist, filmmaker and researcher Gerard Ortín Castellví and scholar Dimitris Papadopoulos.

Tulip bulbs, chrysanthemum stems and vine tomatoes are processed through cameras, feeding datasets that regulate their own growth. During the day, the greenhouse is a cinematic device, an automated film set optimized for the mass production of fruits and flowers. At night, the factory stops: without an inside or an outside, the greenhouse becomes an oneiric chamber where plants, animals and machines form new entanglements, unexpected life moves in and takes control.

Agrilogistics, 2021

Colour, 2K DCP, Sound, 21’

This event is part of Emergency&Emergence, our multi-platform research programme that unearths transdisciplinary, sensorial and speculative practices of radical sensemaking and wayfinding via questions of repair, pedagogy, remediation and mutation.

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