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[Archives] Ikọ #3 - Food care in time of crisis with Ashna Afroze Ahmed (EN)


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Ikọ is a podcast conceived by artist Otobong Nkanga and curator Sandrine Honliasso in the framework of Nkanga’s ongoing work Carved to Flow, started in 2017 and acting as a support structure for initiatives engaged in nurturing social, cultural and economic life in distant and connected geographies. Ikọ is thought as an elastic space that stretches towards multiple geographies, encompasses distinct fields of study and relate heterogenous practices to arouse new readings and modes of creating meanings, relations and goods. Bringing together a wide range of voices intermingling with various audio proposal, Ikọ seeks to expand approaches to contemporary cultural and artistic practices and to allow a plurality of voices to be heard.


EN - In this episode Otobong Nkanga engages a conversation with organic Urban Food Grower Ashna Afroze Ahmed, founder of Prakriti Farming an organization working towards sustainable urban farming in Dhaka, Bangladesh. As Covid-19 has worldwide increase social inequalities and further exposed growing unequal access of individual to vital needs, this episode leans on the case Prakriti Farming to think about the actions of solidarity initiatives in situation of crisis. Within the Ikọ Zone we will listen to a story written and read by Skye Arundhati Thomas a writer and editor living in Mumbai.


Dans cet épisode Otobong Nkanga s’entretient avec Ashna Afroze Ahmed, agricultrice urbaine et fondatrice de Prakriti Farming. Prakriti Farming est une coopérative agricole qui développe des cultures urbaines et durables dans la ville de Dhaka, au Bangladesh. Comme partout dans le monde, la crise du Covid-19 a creusé les inégalités sociales et exacerbé les difficultés qu’ont les plus pauvres à se procurer des biens de première nécessité. Cet épisode nous présente les initiatives et les actions de solidarité entreprises par Prakriti Farming en réponse à cette situation critique. Dans l’Ikọ Zone, nous écoutons un récit écrit et lu par Skye Arundhati Thomas, qui est autrice et éditrice à Mumbai.


In deze aflevering knoopt Otobong Nkanga een gesprek aan met de biologische Urban Food Grower Ashna Afroze Ahmed, oprichtster van Prakriti Farming, een organisatie die werkt rond duurzame landbouw in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Covid-19 deed wereldwijd sociale ongelijkheden toenemen en legde de groeiende, ongelijke toegang tot individuele, levensbelangrijke noden bloot. Deze aflevering neemt het voorbeeld van Prakriti Farming om na te denken over de solidariteitsacties en -initiatieven in crisissituaties. In de Ikọ Zone zullen we luisteren naar een verhaal dat geschreven en voorgelezen wordt door Skye Arundhati Thomas, een schrijfster en uitgeefster die in Mumbai woont.

Ikọ podcast is co-produced and supported by Kunstenfestivaldesarts 2020 in the framework of The Diasporic Schools and Carved to Flow.

Founders: Otobong Nkanga, Sandrine Honliasso / Curator: Sandrine Honliasso / Sound designer: Giocomo Turra / Graphic designer: Antonin Faurel / Sound editor: Octave Broutard

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