DAI's dear admissions coordinator and alum Marika Vandekraats (DAI, 2022) shares this announcement: "Join us on ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐บ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ญ from ๐ญ๐ต:๐ฏ๐ฌโ๐ฎ๐ญ:๐ฌ๐ฌ to celebrate the fittingly end-of-๐ฎ๐๐๐ถ๐๐ท๐๐๐๐-season launch of the publication โThe Colonial, Familiar, Nostalgic, Radical, Transformative Life of the ๐ฎ๐๐๐ถ๐๐ท๐๐๐๐โ at Kiosk, Rotterdam. As part of the event, author Marika Vandekraats, contributors Patricia Diz Neira and Shreya Shankar, and publisher HumDrumPress will be present to launch and activate the publication through collective readings, context-steering activities, and discussions."ย ย ย
ย If you plan on joining, please send a short RSVP to hello@humdrumpress.com
More about the publication:
The story of the ๐ฎ๐๐๐ถ๐๐ท๐๐๐๐ is troubled. Troubled because of what becomes uncovered as we unpick the systems within which, this sweet, nostalgic fruit is embedded within. From rural English fruit-picking sites, to agricultural fields in Spain, to the sides of North American highways, the ๐ฎ๐๐๐ถ๐๐ท๐๐๐๐ exists in many formations. Its multiple (his)storiesย โ starting from its hybrid colonial roots, trace the many hands that have encountered this fruit on its journey to get to us, its avid consumer.ย
โThe Colonial, Familiar, Nostalgic, Radical, Transformative Life of the ๐ฎ๐๐๐ถ๐๐ท๐๐๐๐โ encompasses these stories and histories that shape human relations entangled with the strawberry. It unpacks the abstractions between the fruit and the exploitation often overlooked within its production, to explore how, through varied social, political, geographic and economic contexts, the story of the ๐ฎ๐๐๐ถ๐๐ท๐๐๐๐ lives on through all of our hands and memories.ย
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