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This summer, some members of femProcomuns have been to Kassel, where documenta fifteen was held. This important exhibition of contemporary art, on an international scale, takes place every five years in the same German city.
We were very interested in Lumbung as an inspirational idea for documenta. Lumbung is an Indonesian word that means rice barn, but it can also mean: friendship, working well together, sharing, looking after everyone within the group.
As they explain in documenta fifteen, in Indonesia there are lumbungs, these rice barns found in many towns, when the peasants have too much rice they store it in these wooden buildings, so if the townspeople need so, they take some rice from the barn, always following the rules they have agreed upon. In this way, people help each other.
This idea has inspired the documenta fifteen held this year in Kassel and has led different artists to work together and help each other, sharing ideas, making works of art or contributing money so that others can make works of art.
Community Economies Institute at Documenta Fifteen
Jenny Cameron, from the Community Economies Institute (expected to participate, through Kathrin Böhm, in the International meeting next Tuesday), writes two articles about her experience in documenta fifteen. She has given us permission to translate them into Catalan and Spanish and publish them on our website.
Read the original articles, by Jenny Cameron in English:
More Community Economies at documenta fifteen
Community Economies at documenta fifteen
ColaBoraBora also at Documenta Fifteen
In Kassel we also met Ricardo Antón from ColaBoraBora, who will also participate at the International Transitioning Ecosystem Meeting: Models to support the commons next Tuesday. Ricardo has published an article “Compostando documenta15” in the Magazine and the Polièdrica digital archive, which we recommend you read (only in Spanish), and has also shared a thread on Twitter about the experience
1/7 “Compostando #documenta15”
Publicamos en @poliedrica_ una aproximación a esta #documentafifteen, que se ha articulado como un ekosistema procomunal desde el sur global, intentando poner los medios de re-producción al servicio de les creadores.https://t.co/u8EsLa0wQG pic.twitter.com/WNH7ErnaLT— ColaBoraBora (@ColaBoraBora) September 27, 2022
(pictures: Mònica Garriga)