29 August 2026
14:00 – 21:00

Location: HIAP Gallery Augusta

Schedule: 

Breadfruit: Recipes of a Recalcitrant Seed 14:00 – 16:00
Follow the Plants Evening of Performance 17:00 – 21:00

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Breadfruit: Recipes of a Recalcitrant Seed

Capacity: 15, Booking required. Book here. 

Artist Nathalie Muchamad hosts a participatory workshop cooking breadfruit recipes shared by Sour Grass (Caribbean) and Edible Archives (Goa) in Madeleine Collie’s Follow the Plants text “To Mutiny for Life: Against the Violence of the Plantationocene.

The workshop builds on Nathalie Muchamad’s growing archive of breadfruit as both an agroecological agent and an intimate ingredient for communities in tropical climates. Breadfruit will be brought from South London markets by book contributors to be steamed, fried and roasted as we share stories of colonial crossings, global adaptations and acts of resistance. Known as ʻulu in the Pacific and sukun in Indonesia, Artocarpus altilis carries a complex history of human movement. Grown and farmed on islands across the Pacific and Indian Oceans the plant was introduced to the Caribbean and elsewhere through colonial botanical networks, as it became entangled with plantation economies imposed as diet for enslaved people, and was famously associated with the Mutiny on the Bounty appearing in several movies of the story.

Together, we will follow the plant through its histories of trade, displacement, and resistance, asking how this plant has become a witness to colonial histories while also offering possibilities for food sovereignty, collective survival and regeneration.

This event is a collaboration between Bioart Society, Food Art Research Network and HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme.

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Follow the Plants Evening of Performance

Capacity: Booking not required

With performance as research emerging as a green thread and methodology in the book, Follow the Plants research assembly concludes with an evening of performances by Margherita Pevere, Rubiane Maia and Sepideh Rahaa. Each enacting distinctly rigorous, beautiful and moving bodies of research, their performances will unfold over the evening in correspondences of love, grief, breath, ritual and resilience.

Rubiane Maia’s durational performance maps her research on African rice as she creates a diagram that connects hair, seeds and soil. Her work braids archives, ancestry, colonial displacement and plant migration. She will explore intimate relations with rice seeds as plants that embody identity and resistance.

Margherita Pevere brings her contribution to the book with scientist Diana Vieira, “For the Love of Wildfires” back to the body, honing in and extenuating movement in a rendition of her Lament installation and performance about post-wildfire ecologies and more-than-human mourning. 

Sepideh Rahaa performs a new iteration of her work Songs to Earth, Songs to Seeds. Drawing on her family’s long history of rice cultivation in Northern Iran, the work connects traditions of sustainable cultivation, neo-colonial food politics, food security, labour conditions, and stories of daily life and struggles. In these increasingly turbulent times, Rahaa revisits the paddy fields and rice grains, focusing on ancestral knowledge and the poetics of rice as food, and as a source of life and resistance.  

Timings:

17:00–20:00 Rubiane Maia 

19:00–19.30 Margherita Pevere 

20:00–20:30 Sepideh Rahaa 

This event is a collaboration between Bioart Society, Food Art Research Network and HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme