Category: SEED disperse
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Mountains Beyond Mountains
Restoration Liberation2019 Ghetto Biennial Katelyn Alexis + Getho Jean Baptiste + Wesner Bazile + Rossi Jacques Casimir + Noel Edgard aka Papouche + Lee Lee + Mimi Sheller + moira williams We are exploring historic connections between Maine and Haiti with a series of workshops and performances; looking at the entangled mobilities between plant-human and…
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Sea Shanties and SEED Stories
Celebrating the new gardens designed and built by Lee Lee at the Pendleton House, the beds set the stage for a display of Haitian artworks and maritime paintings during first Blue Hill Maritime Heritage Festival. In consideration of the historic use of the building to house sailors who needed temporary housing between seafaring journeys, garden…
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Lakou Basile
After our visit to SAKALA, we planted trees throughout the community of woodworkers that surround the Atis Rezistans along the Grand Rue of Port-au-Prince. We sourced compost to amend the dirt through SOIL (Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods), a worthy organization who is working on increasing dignity through community sanitation in urban areas while providing compost…
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Lakou Jean Claude Santillus
Initiating the 2017 Ghetto Biennial, we continued the tradition of preparing a feast to share between Haitian and foreign artists. While several neighborhood women prepared the feast, we saved seeds from ingredients they were using, and showed how to cultivate ones that we found could grow around the neighborhood. Neighborhood children gathered in his garden…
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Gardens of the Grand Rue
2015 Ghetto Biennial KREYÒL, VODOU and the LAKOU as forms of Resistance The effective revolutionary approach of the Lakou, Vodou and Kreyol have much to offer a wider discourse on preserving traditional farming practices in the face of monumental threats from industrial agriculture. Drawing from the historical importance of agriculture in Haiti, the Sacred Soil…
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Tchaka
Collisions between Haitian food sovereignty & US food policy IMMACULA Immacula Cadet grew up in Port-Au-Prince. When she was young, her family would go to the countryside of Cayes to dance with Papa Loko several times a year. They would celebrate the father of the Hougan priesthood by offering red liquor and cake. The most…
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Poisson Gwo-Sel
The antiseptic qualities of certain ingredients was well demonstrated in the preparation of this dish. Without refrigeration, the raw fish attract mass amounts of flies both in the market and as we set up a kitchen in a corner of the twisted ghetto alleyways behind the Grand Rue in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. I was initially wary…
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Mais Moulin
Mais Moulin is a staple in Haiti. The warming and filling corn porridge reminds me of polenta, but with a Caribbean flair as it is made with coconut milk. I had it served with an array of meats, but when I learned the recipe it was served with Poisson Gwo-Sel. It was prepared by Rose…
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