‘Earth(ing)’
The Museum of Edible Earth has collaborated with the Amsterdam-based story-teller Elvira Semmoh to produce EARTH(ING) 2020. The project takes shape as a series of public interventions between the months of September and October 2020 in Vondelpark – Amsterdam – around the statue ‘Mama Baranka’ created by the Dutch artist Nelson Carrilho.
The Museum of Edible Earth has connected itself with the ‘Mama Baranka’, bringing earth to Mother Earth and activating dialogues, emotions and spirituality through the tasting and the offering of the edible earth samples of its collection, shared with the public which came.
Each performative activation of ‘Mama Baranka’ included flower and earth ritualistic offerings to the statue but also happened around the invitation of a different guest, all of these interventions building up a common history around Earth and how the primordial element is a way to ground ourselves and together.
Invited guests : Vincent Henar, Punto Buwano, Nelson Carrilho, Heleen Bustamente, Marian Markelo, Runny Margarita, Jo Sarah, Ayla Lunes, Lea Rachidan.
The project EARTH(ING) investigated the monument of ‘Mama Baranka’ as a place of power, connecting to it through a participatory, sometimes ceremonial, performance. The earth was placed in various forms around Mama Baranka, as well as on the sculpture itself, and played the role of an offering and a connecting tool with the audience. By bringing earth to the sculpture the visitors intensified its power and generated a wave of grounding for the people around.
The focus was ‘earthing’ or ‘grounding’ as a healing tool during Corona times. Like flowers, as humans we come to life, we blossom, and we go back to earth.
More information: masharu.nl/Earth-in
