The aquatic fern azolla is one of the worlds fastest growing plants and a rich source of nutrients, yet it is virtually unexplored as food. In The Azolla Cooking and Cultivation Project I experiment with azolla-food together with farmers, chefs and scientists and try to get some insight into how we produce our food today and how we could produce it in the future.

You can find an interview with me about the project at We Make Money Not Art. Here's an article from the magazine FARM: FARM.pdf (Swedish) FARM-en.pdf (English, text only), a talk and speach given at Wysing Arts Center: Wysing.pdf and an interview for the magazine ENERGY: ENERGY.pdf. Some Azolla-research that has been used in the project is available here. Mosquito ferns - tiny superplants is a great introduction to Azolla that references my work. An Azolla Cookbook and Cultivation Manual will be published in 2012.




The Azolla Cooking and Cultivation Project will be shown at Kalmar Konstmuseum (SE) in April / May 2010, at Kultivator (SE) in June / July 2010, at Färgfabriken (SE) in July / August 2010, at Stockholm Culture Festival (SE) in August 2010, at KIM? Contemporary Art Centre (LV) in April/May 2011, at Rogaland Kunstsenter (NO) in May / June 2011, at Salo Art Museum (FI) in September/October 2011 and at Wysing Arts Centre (UK) in October 2011. The Azolla Cooking and Cultivation Project was shortlisted finalist for the french Prix Coal 2011 prize.

The Azolla Cooking and Cultivation Project has been realized with the help of John Larsson at The Department of Botany at Stockholm University (SE), Masamichi Yamashita at The Space Agriculture Task Force at JAXA (JP), the art and agriculture collective Kultivator on Öland (SE), the contemporary art and architecture space Färgfabriken and their café in Stockholm (SE), Oloph Fritzén and Jenny Olofsson farmers at Hästa gård in Stockholm (SE), RIXC in Riga (LV), Rogaland Kunstsenter, Ullandhaug økologiske gård and The Norwegian Gastronomical Institute in Stavanger (NO), Halikonlahti Green Art and the garderner Tiia Paju in Salo (FI), Grizedale Arts in the Lake District (UK) and many other curious and helpful people around the world.