What precisely are the conditions that you are working with?

What actions/strategies/operations are you using to impact on those conditions?

Yak Yak invites CRA I Centro Rural de Arte to answer with an art work.

Yak Yak is a curatorial project that features newly commissioned and existing works by artists whose practices address rural contexts as particular sites for art making and cultural production. Artists and art/farming/architecture assemblages and collectives from four continents present works that engage with their own localities and with other localities, emphasizing the importance of trans-local dialogue around the future of rural places.

Yak Yak is conceived within the framework of ACRE (Australia’s Creative Rural Economy), a network and project based in the Victoria/NSW region. The ACRE Project generates art interventions and dialogues in rural situations, opening a space to think differently about what can happen on farms in the present and the future.

We decided to connect the invitation with students of an agrotechnical school in Cazón, Buenos AIres Province. During a two days workshop teachers, students and CRA meet together to imagine rural futures. Some instructions transform them in draws that feed new complexities. The draws are points in a line, a game between two coordinates of South hemisphere that was exposed in Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia from October 4th 2013 – November 11th 2013.

Yak Yak is co-curated by Ian Tully (Australia) and Fiona Woods (Ireland), working closely with invited contributors. It featured works of Shaun Mackrell (Australia), Kultivator (Sweden), M12 (US), CRA I Centro Rural de Arte (Argentina), Trevor Flinn (Australia), Veronica Nicholson (Irlanda), Michael Shirrefs (Australia), Brown’s Cows (Australia).