Disco Batata
(discoteca tuberosum) -2008

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During 3 months, we are invited with the hungarian artist Kaszas Tamas, to the "projecto 270", 30 km south to Lisbon.

Projecto 270 is an organic farm where are working a lot of volunteers (woofer). They organise also some activists meetings and artistics residencies.

We are building, in the middle of the organic garden, an underground room to observ the nature. While you are standing in the room, protected by a green roof, your eyes are at the level of the ground.

one side...

... and the other one

..........................................views from the inside..........................................

front view

               

..........................................views of the inside, from left to right..........................................

This hand made artwork, build with mostly recycled materials (found on the farm), and with the use of few machines, contains a lot of elements to speak about ecology and organic agriculture:

green roof (before the seeds were growing), moltch on the floor of the room,

glasses to see how the farmers were enriching the ground,

system to evacuate the rain water (view during its construction),

house for wild animal, nettles pot (cf: the fertilizer made from this plant was forbidden by the french governement), etc.

This space, by its location and how it was built, is coherent with the activist and ecologic exhibitions that it is welcoming now. It's also used to meditate, to meet, to play and for other events. You can visit it during your stay in Portugal!
To know more about this work: http://www.flickr.com/photos/discobatata/