Luiza Prado

TWM

(Photo credit: Wayfinding with the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris). Image: Luiza Prado de O. Martins and Dani Admiss.)

Luiza Prado is working with us on The World is a Mill (TWM), a pilot project bringing together artists and communities collaborating in recipe mapping and food sharing workshops, community cooking, and peer learning. Together with Radar, Dani Admiss and Luiza Prado will develop TWM towards a long-term project, initially rooted in the Midlands and expanding to encompass further partnerships. 

Worldwide, the climate and nature emergency is creating new states of existential precarity. In response the artists ask, how do we think, feel, and sense our way through extinction, instability and displacement to find new conceptions of solidarity, collectivity and belonging? TWM aims to articulate and experiment with the types of coordination and synergy needed between local, dispersed and displaced communities in climate breakdown. Alternative forms of recipe exchange, food sharing and food as cultural preservation are used to explore how the experimental knowledge and sensorial methodologies of growing and eating can contribute to climate action. 

Bio :

Luiza Prado is an artist, writer and scholar. Her work moves between installation and herbalist practices, using performance and ritual as a way of invitation and activation for audiences. Her practice explores relations and knowledge between plants, political infrastructures, and technology, and questions what structures and processes are needed for collective concerns of environmental care and reproductive justice. She holds a PhD from the University of the Arts Berlin, and an MA from the University of the Arts Bremen. 

 

Her ongoing artistic research project, “Un/Earthings and Moon Landings” narrates, through a series of artworks, the extinction and later reappearance of an ancient contraceptive, aphrodisiac and spice called silphium. She has exhibited and performed work at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg (MUDAM), the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Museum Ostwall (Dortmund), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum (Cologne), the National Museum of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Savvy Contemporary, Arebyte Gallery, Akademie Schloss Solitude, and Kampnagel, among others. She is currently based in Berlin. 

Projects

Rehearsals (for a world we could live in)

The programme explores practices of world building which enact and perform more just and liveable worlds, alongside the concept of the rehearsal. Read more