Book launch of Seasonal Matters Rural Relations by Seasonal Neighbours

Join us for the book launch of Seasonal Matters: Rural Relations by Seasonal Neighbours at RADIUS, Delft

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Join us for the book launch of Seasonal Matters: Rural Relations by Seasonal Neighbours

When: June 7th, 2024, 18:00 - 21:00
Where: RADIUS, Delft

Seasonal Matters: Rural Relations is a book that reconsiders contemporary rural challenges through relationships rather than oppositions. Based on seasonal work experiences, it delves into the realm of contemporary agriculture and European labour migration, exploring the socio-political implications on rhythms, rituals, and cohabitation in Europe’s countryside.

Doors open at 18:00. We will be in the main building on the mezzanine, though it is unfortunately not a wheelchair-accessible space. The event will be in English and will end at 21:00. If needed, we also speak many other languages and can whisper in translation. (RO, FR, NL, RU, SP, DE)

June Saturday 8, 2024, 13:00 - 17:00 / Book launch, Talk, Workshop

Workshop and Book launch Seasonal Matters Rural Relations at KIOSK

Please join us at KIOSK Rotterdam for the Seasonal Matters Rural Relations workshop and book launch.

Seasonal Neighbours will start with a workshop exploring the topic of neighbouring, then end with the book presentation and some collective reading. This program starts at 13.00 on Saturday June 8th. Looking forward seeing you there!

Location

Kiosk
Pieter de Raadtstraat 35A
3033 VC Rotterdam
The Netherlands

Time

13.00 - 15.00 Mapping workshop on neighbouring
16.00 - 17.00 Book presentation + collective reading

Location

Kiosk
Pieter de Raadtstraat 35A
3033 VC Rotterdam
The Netherlands

Time

13.00 - 15.00 Mapping workshop on neighbouring
16.00 - 17.00 Book presentation + collective reading

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June Friday 7, 2024, 18:00 - 21:00 / Book launch

Book launch of Seasonal Matters: Rural Relations at RADIUS, Delft

Join us for the book launch of Seasonal Matters: Rural Relations by Seasonal Neighbours

When: June 7th, 2024, 18:00 - 21:00
Where: RADIUS, Delft

Seasonal Matters: Rural Relations is a book that reconsiders contemporary rural challenges through relationships rather than oppositions. Based on seasonal work experiences, it delves into the realm of contemporary agriculture and European labour migration, exploring the socio-political implications on rhythms, rituals, and cohabitation in Europe’s countryside.

Doors open at 18:00. We will be in the main building on the mezzanine, though it is unfortunately not a wheelchair-accessible space. The event will be in English and will end at 21:00. If needed, we also speak many other languages and can whisper in translation. (RO, FR, NL, RU, SP, DE)

Programme:

18:30 - Introduction to the collective as a conversation between founder @cielgrommen and artist Ioana Lupascu.

18:45 - Discussion about rhythms and rituals facilitated by @anastasiaeggers & @maximiliaanroyakkers Max and Asia will use their project in collaboration with @clairechassot , Rhythms Of The Fields: Mapping the Work, and some of the field poems in the book as a starting point to explore other entries. You will get to hear from @jonathandemaeyer and @thijsmona among other artists from the collective.

20:00 - Chit-chat over drinks. You can also get your copy of the book!

See you there! 💫

Location

RADIUS, Delft

Location

RADIUS, Delft

Onomatopee 252, Seasonal Neighbours, 2024

Seasonal Matters Rural Relations (ENG edition)

(Field)notes on rhythms, rituals and cohabitation

€ 25

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What if traditional relationships, between humans and non-humans, plants, the weather and the rhythm of the seasons, are being lost in the race for profit and for increasingly intensive methods of production? In sixteen contributions, interdisciplinary collective Seasonal Neighbours attempts to observe, record and archive narratives for the existing, disappearing and newly emerging relationships in the countryside.

Both theoretical and artistic contributions serve as a guide for perceiving the agricultural landscape. As a collage-style field-guide, Seasonal Matters Rural Relations addresses the role that artistic practices and fieldwork can play in the complexity of rural relations. The collective reflects on storytelling and the variety of themes from the evolution of metabolisms in horticulture, the changing rural landscape, stories of European labor migration to questions of robotisation and upscaling, domesticity, public space, new forms of citizenship, etc.

Seasonal Matters Rural Relations, (Field)notes on rhythms, rituals and cohabitation gathers different nuances of the agricultural realities experienced by the collective members in their neighbouring processes, working side by side with farmers, seasonal workers, plants and crops. These fieldwork experiences helped shape a variety of contributions moving from visual essays to graphic collages, poems, maps, short stories, picking songs and musical scores to intercultural recipes with wild plants.

With contributions by: Claire Chassot, Jonathan De Maeyer, Anastasia Eggers, Fernando Garcia-Dory (Inland), Ciel Grommen, Pia Jacques, Carolien Lubberhuizen, Ioana Lupascu, Sébastian Marot, Karolina Michalik, Yacinth Pos, Caroline Profanter, Maximiliaan Royakkers, Ines Marita Schaerer, Arnd Spahn, Mona Thijs and Ewoud Vermote.

Type: Softcover
Dimensions: 125 x 188 mm
Pages: 304
ISBN: 978-90-833621-8-2

Editor: Anastasia Eggers, Ils Huygens
Author: Seasonal Neighbours
Graphic: Bonsma & Reist

Language: English
Release date: 20240531
Binding: Perfect bind
Paper: 70 gsm Holmen TRND 2.0, 170 gsm Arena Rough White
Edition: 1200
Printer: Wilco, Amersfoort

Onomatopee project manager: Jesse Muller and Natasha Rijkhoff
Proofreader: Patrick Lennon
Made possible by: Flemish Community, Grensverleggers, Provincie Limburg, Provincie Noord-Brabant, Provincie Zeeland, deBuren

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Onomatopee 252.1, Seasonal Neighbours, 2024

Seasonal Matters Rural Relations (NL edition)

Notities uit het veld: over samenleven, rituelen en ritmes

€ 25

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Wat gebeurt er als we hedendaagse uitdagingen op het platteland beschouwen als relaties in plaats van tegenstellingen? Vanuit veldwerk ervaringen verkent Seasonal Neighbours de wereld van de hedendaagse landbouw en Europese arbeidsmigratie.

Seasonal Matters Rural Relations traceert ritmes, rituelen en samenlevingsvormen op het Europese platteland en verkent de sociopolitieke impact die zij genereren. Het resultaat is een eigenzinnige verzameling van essays en interviews tot tekeningen en recepten.

In Seasonal Matters Rural Relations - Notities uit het veld: over samenleven, rituelen en ritmes worden de stemmen van landbouwers, arbeiders, geëngageerde burgers, kunstenaars en ontwerpers met elkaar vermenigvuldigd tot een gelaagde en veelzijdige conversatie.

Met bijdragen van: Claire Chassot, Jonathan De Maeyer, Anastasia Eggers, Fernando Garcia-Dory (Inland), Ciel Grommen, Pia Jacques, Carolien Lubberhuizen, Ioana Lupascu, Sébastian Marot, Karolina Michalik, Yacinth Pos, Caroline Profanter, Maximiliaan Royakkers, Ines Marita Schaerer, Arnd Spahn, Mona Thijs en Ewoud Vermote.

Type: Softcover
Dimensions: 125 x 188 mm
Pages: 304
ISBN: 978-90-833621-5-1

Editor: Anastasia Eggers, Ils Huygens
Author: Seasonal Neighbours
Graphic: Bonsma & Reist

Language: Nederlands (Dutch)
Release date: 20240531
Binding: Perfect bind
Paper: 70 gsm Holmen TRND 2.0, 170 gsm Arena Rough White
Edition: 200
Printer: Wilco, Amersfoort

Onomatopee project manager: Jesse Muller and Natasha Rijkhoff
Translator: Ils Huygens
Proofreader: Patrick Lennon
Made possible by: Flemish Community, Grensverleggers, Provincie Limburg, Provincie Noord-Brabant, Provincie Zeeland, deBuren

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Seasonal Neighbours collective
Anastasia Eggers editor, artist, writer
Ils Huygens editor