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Pomological: Poison Apples and Fallen Fruit
October 27 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Pomological: Poison Apples and Fallen Fruit presented by Biomaterials Working Group in partnership with The Philadelphia Orchard Project
We are eating apples in the end of times. Through discussion and production of fruit leather from salvaged fallen apples, this workshop ruminates on apples in mythical, cultural, and biological contexts. Apple leather is presented in simultaneous processing stages: cooking, dehydrating, and as a bioplastic material within art practices.
This workshop explores apples as symbols of knowledge, tickets to (un)paradise, fairy tale poisons and folk remedies, and sci-fi symbionts, grafted from clones. This seemingly simple, homely fruit unfolds into complex layers – how do we parse inherited stories around sustenance, medicine, and colonial forestry? Through food preservation, what future are we planning?
This event is free and open to the public, registration is highly encouraged as space is limited. Accessibility information for the POP Learning Orchard will be updated shortly!
About The Biomaterials Working Group
The Biomaterials Working Group (BWG), is an arts research collective based in the part of Lenapehoking called Philadelphia. BWG members include Marcellus Armstrong, Jazmyn Crosby, Theo Loftis, Cecilia McKinnon, and Elizabeth Shores. As artists, educators, and researchers, we share an interest in exploring sustainable alternatives to plastics and toxic materials conventionally used in studio art practices, as well as a broad curiosity about the transformative potential of everyday materials used in unconventional ways. Our various previous avenues of exploration include: algae-based bioplastics, eggshell concrete, fermentation, natural pigments, kombucha leather, saltwater radio antennae, and more.
