ORFC 2026 8 – 9 Jan
Peasant seeds — long unregistered, diverse, and freely exchanged — are increasingly outlawed by patents, monocultures, and agrochemical dependencies. Joining Cooking Sections for a performance lecture drawing on ongoing work in Southern Italy, where 125 drought-resistant varieties are propagated through 40 agroecological farms, cooperatives, and drought nurseries, in collaboration with a national museum that grants ‘cultural provenance’ to keep them in cultivation as a ‘living collection’. It also presents proposed legal amendments resisting heat, water scarcity, and market enclosures, advancing Rights of Seeds as legal fictions within broader Rights of Nature imaginaries.