KUNSTENPLATFORM PLAN B

Inés Ballesteros & Michela Dal Brollo

Stone Soup

Artists Inés Ballesteros (born 1993, Spain) and Michela Dal Brollo (born 1992, Italy) joined forces after a series of artistic collaborations for a new research project as part of Veldwerk I, Stone Soup. After their experience in the urban context, they are now venturing outside the city limits for the first time to create an alternative meeting place.

Stone Soup is inspired by a European legend in which travellers wander from village to village. When they arrive in a village, they announce that they are going to make soup with only a stone, asking each resident to bring a vegetable. In the end, the whole village eats the soup they made together. With that story in mind and equipped with nothing more than a portable oven and some kitchen utensils, they travelled to Niel aan de Rupel, where they spent the night in residents' gardens and cooked with whatever was available. In this way, they used local ingredients and knowledge to organise a collective meal. 

Inés and Michela use food and our food culture as an artistic medium, exploring local knowledge about edible plants and how it can be shared. They concluded their project with a self-printed publication combining recipes with drawings of local plants and the tools they used.

BIO

Inés Ballesteros (born 1993, Spain) graduated with a Master's degree in Art and Design for Public Spaces from the University of Porto. Everyday life raises questions for her about collectivity, the viewer and the artist. These are therefore central to her practice, which develops within a political reality through collaborations with activist collectives and free spaces.

Michela Dal Brollo (°1992, IT) graduated with a Master's degree in Fine Arts – In Situ from KASK Antwerp. Her practice focuses on processes of knowledge development around urban and rural areas. In this way, she explores how we can imagine other ways of collaborating and living together with our environment. Inspired by temporary dwellings and indigenous architecture, and how these can adapt to the individual and the environment in which they find themselves, Michela creates tools and structures that parallel the ephemeral and unpredictable nature of ideas and events.

Michela and Ines are currently collaborating on an artistic research project that focuses on the similarities and interactions between local and nomadic practices. Their collaborations revisit topics such as ecology and micropolitics, but also the way we live in places.

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