On my way to Kirkenes to do a residency and prepare work for Barents Spektakel on the 8-12th of February. Pikene på Broen is organising the residency and have done a marvellous job of composing a very interesting program for my stay. Also going for a couple of days to Nikel across the Russian

Showed my films "Alchemy - the poetry of bread and "AISH - bread as life" Baked limppu with Finnish sourdough and ryeflour with Mikko Kivelä and an eager crowd of limppubakers. Made delicious viili with tinkimaito (Finnish for raw milk straight from the cow) and culture. And gathering traces of viili culture in

FOOD CHAINS 10.9 - 30.10.2011 FERMENTING CHANGE - limpuu and viili as cultural aesthetics  by Eva Bakkeslett, artist and cultivator "Alchemy" 20minsA poetic evocation on the alchemy of bread brings the act of baking the most basic of staples, into a high art form. Here nature and human culture collude. Hands pounding,

"Living cultures - from counteractions to symbiosis" Talk at TEDx Tromsø, Verdensteateret, 25th August 2011 The word CULTURE comes from the Latin word cultura – meaning to cultivate – to prepare the ground for something to grow out of. But culture also describes the process of fermentation of food by activating microorganisms. Humans have over centuries developed