Aridity Lines: On new seasons and constructed infertility W/ Cooking Sections
In the third episode of Aridity Lines, Cooking Sections (artists Alon Schwabe and Daniel Fernandez Pascual) delve into their research on climate emergency and its effects on human eating patterns, which they deploy to examine “systems that organize the world,” as they describe it. We focus on their long-term project Climavore, started in 2015, and their recent explorations of shifting seasons and regions in the Mediterranean area for their recent exhibition “Seasons Made to Drift” at SALT Beyoğlu, Istanbul. We discuss the relationship between climate change, aridity and fertility, water buffalos and their watering routes, bird language in northern Turkey, and the Mediterraneanization of the Black Sea. Aridity Lines is an eight-episode podcast series commissioned by TBA21–Academy and co-produced with Radio Ma3azef. Conceived by Reem Shadid and Barbara Casavecchia as part of The Current III: “Mediterraneans: ‘Thus waves come in pairs’ (after Etel Adnan),” the series invokes the local ecological knowledge that delicately treads the porous borders between its land and water bodies around the Mediterranean sea. By scientific definition, an aridity line is the line that connects all points with the same average amount of annual rainfall. We are taking this drifting threshold that traverses times and human-made borders as a magnifying lens to read through the social, environmental, cultural, and geopolitical impacts of climate change. Guest: Cooking Sections Hosted by Reem Shadid Edited by Barbara Casavecchia and Reem Shadid Introduction and credits voice-over: Jinane Chaaya Sound editor: Moe Choucair Produced by María Montero Sierra