Photosynthetic Cookbook
Research class by Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky
For this Research Week, Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky will give a workshop connected to her research project 'Photosynthetic Cookbook'.
What can we learn from photosynthesis? Kovacovsky would like to find out how we can make photosynthesis tangible and learn how it tastes. How is sugar / energy being passed on within the ecosystem? How is everything that heterotrophs eat interconnected? What is a leaf and how does it work? This involves exploring the tastes of various plants and understanding the interconnectedness of organisms.
Kovacovsky approaches this project with respect for natural resources, following the indigenous principle of the "honorable harvest". She wants to look at the impact of human activities, like burning fossilized plants, on the planet's ecosystem. The central theme of her project is entanglement and fusion, emphasizing collaboration and interaction among participants.
Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky
Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky (1980 born in Bern, Switzerland) lives and works in Berlin. Her work is influenced by her upbringing on the edge of the forest with its inhabitants as her kin. Using personal and scientific stories of plants she works around the relationship of organisms and the evolutionary history of photosynthesis. She works with analogue photography and participative formats. He artist book Feeding on Light was published by Roma Publishing/NL in 2023. Since 2017 she runs Between Us and Nature – A Reading Club with Sina Ribak in collaboration with Zabriskie Buchladen für Kultur und Natur. She has shown solo i.e. at Kunstfort Vijfhuizen/NL, Bäckerei/Berlin, and Aargauer Kunsthaus/CH and in group exhibitions i.e. Bärenzwinger/DE, Colomboscope/LK, C/O Berlin/DE, Kunsthall Stavanger/NO. Kovacovsky has a B.F.A. from the Rietveld Academie/NL. She was a guest lecturer at Hochschule für Design Karlsruhe/DE, Rietveld Academie/NL, KASK/BE and KaE Stipendium-HKU/NL. Currently she is attending the Goldrausch KünstlerInnenprojekt in Berlin.
Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky is researcher at the Royal Academy.
evafiore.kovacovsky@ap.be
>> This research class is part of the Research Week during the annual research festival ARTICULATE.
