In December, InCUBATE is hosting resident Sarah Kavage, a Seattle-based artist and urban planner.  During her time at InCUBATE, Sarah will be developing the project Industrial Harvest:  An Exploration of Growth, Exchange and Rebirth in 3 Acts.

Industrial Harvest will begin with the purchase of 1000 bushels of wheat on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.  The wheat will be distributed in the Chicago area in a series of intimate performance actions designed to personalize the massive system of industrial food production, exchange and distribution.  During her residency, Sarah will be conducting research and interviews, peering into the guts of the systems of production, exchange and distribution that shape our relationship to food.  She will also be doing hands-on, performative acts around the themes inherent in the final piece, namely baking, cooking, growing and gifting.  Participants and collaborators in these early actions are welcome!  For more, see: http://industrialharvest.wordpress.com

The December residency is sponsored by the Stockyard Institute in the name of artist, educator and activist Michael Piazza (1955 – 2006).  The residency will continue InCUBATE’s tradition of eating together as artistic practice with a holiday dinner symposium dedicated to Piazza on Sunday, December 20.