{"id":274283,"date":"2025-06-05T17:47:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T15:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.museodellecivilta.it\/events\/cooking-sections-rights-to-seeds-rights-of-seeds\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T17:47:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T15:47:44","slug":"cooking-sections-rights-to-seeds-rights-of-seeds","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/www.museodellecivilta.it\/en\/events\/cooking-sections-rights-to-seeds-rights-of-seeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooking Sections. Rights to Seeds, Rights of Seeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The artwork <strong><em>Rights to Seeds, Rights of Seeds<\/em><\/strong> (<strong>2024<\/strong>) by <strong>Cooking Sections <\/strong>(founded in London in 2013 by Daniel Fern\u00e1ndez Pascual and Alon Schwabe) is installed in dialogue with the <strong>collection of colonial-era seeds and agricultural products in the former Colonial Museum<\/strong>. Alongside the work, an <strong>in-depth display<\/strong> features a <strong>selection of the original jars containing the catalogued seeds<\/strong>. The installation builds on research developed within Monoculture Meltdown, CLIMAVORE x Jameel at the Royal College of Art.<\/p>\n<p>This artistic intervention seeks to preserve a <strong>living, heterogeneous collection of peasant seeds<\/strong> that are resilient to<strong> drought and thermal stress, which<\/strong> have been cultivated by farmers in <strong>southern Italy <\/strong>for generations. The installation stands in contrast to the ideology behind the creation of a colonial seed bank drawn from the local agriculture of the colonized territories\u2014mainly in Eritrea, Somalia, and Libya\u2014which was aimed at increasing the intensive production of <strong>monocultures<\/strong> from a select group of seeds to propel the <strong>mass development of the Italian agricultural industry<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The installation is a form of <strong>cultural-natural reparation<\/strong>. It positions MUCIV as a place where Italian farmers who practice <strong>agroecology <\/strong>can deposit and exchange seeds at events held in the sowing and harvest seasons. The work recognizes the <strong>agricultural heritage of Italian seeds<\/strong> as <strong>a resource to be protected and sustained through cultivation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Cooking Sections installation\u2014acquired by MUCIV thanks to <strong>PAC2024 \u2013 Plan for Contemporary Art<\/strong> promoted by the <strong>Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity<\/strong> of the <strong>Ministry of Culture<\/strong>\u2014lays the groundwork for <strong>long-term collaboration between the museum and farming communities<\/strong><strong> that is facilitated\u00a0 Monoculture Meltdown, CLIMAVORE x Jameel at the RCA<\/strong>. An annual \u201cseed exchange\u201d protocol has been established, formalizing the museum\u2019s custodianship of unregistered seeds. These seeds remain free from ownership claims, patents, or commercial restrictions, circulating as a <strong>living collection<\/strong> for which the museum acts as guarantor. With contributions from scholars, legal experts, and consultants on the rights of nature, the installation supports the development of new legislative frameworks that recognize <strong>seeds<\/strong> as <strong>ecological and cultural agents<\/strong> rather than mere commodities. Thus, MUCIV becomes a civic platform for seed justice, connecting the <strong>custodianship of material and immaterial assets, environmental ethics, and support for the coevolution of humans, landscapes, and plants.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The artwork Rights to Seeds, Rights of Seeds (2024) by Cooking Sections (founded in London in 2013 by Daniel Fern\u00e1ndez Pascual and Alon Schwabe) is installed in dialogue with the collection of colonial-era seeds and agricultural products in the former Colonial Museum. 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