Bazo wrote an autobiographical story about the Hamar people and Gele made drawings of his pastoral childhood memories. Lumbung Press at documenta fifteen was happy to print the unique material! And voilà! A publication about Hamar through their own perspective! The Hamar currency is cattle and all land is free to be used by anyone. The book is also a complicated story of a conflict between strict customs and demands for change.

DEUTSCHER TEXT: bitte scrollen ***************************************** Rural Undercurrents in and around KasselMeet and Greet, an Economic Summit, Lumbung Kios Market and Drawing Sessions 10 and 11 September 2022 Part of Meydan#3 Weekend at Lumbung Documenta fifteenOrganised by Rural School of Economics and partners Who holds land-based knowledge in a city and where does it become visible? Who are the women who run lasting economies? How can we share without talking?

July: Rural School of Economics in Kassel and elsewhere Our three spaces at Lumbung documenta in Kassel are in good use: the Drawing and Harvesting Room at Hafenstraße, the Rural Undercurrent Vending Machines at Hübner, and our mobile Plein-Air Kit. Drawing and trading are the two constants that weave together rural undercurrents and localrealities, and individual stories with collective histories. We keep harvesting and redistributing across the various ecosistems we are connected with.

Tuesdays 21 June from 13.00 – 16.00 CET Noting at the New Rural Agenda Summit, a planetary conference by Lumbung member Jatiwangi art Factory. We bring banners - and one states the Rural School of Economics motto: How we see the rural is how want to relate to it. Wednesday 22 June from 14.00 – 15.00 CET Instagram live stream Reflecting on five years of collaborative Re-drawing the Economy in order to "

If you are in Kassel this summer we cordially invite you to join the drawing sessions both within and outside of documenta venues, and some will be online. We have equipped a Composting Knowledge Drawing Room on the 3rd floor at Hafenstraße 76, and we have a mobile Plein Air Drawing Kit to set up sessions anywhere, for example at ruruHaus, at Lumbung Kios or in the Fulda Aue. Here is what's planned so far in June:

Friday 17 June from 14.30 -16.00 CET Local Undercurrent Automaten, Lumbung Kiosk at Hübner Areal Sketching Trade Systems and Book Presentation Describing and speculating on formats for trade systems that exist all around us, and alongside the mainstream retail logic: from donations to swaps, Happy Hours to for free. The idea of interdependent economies in the arts will be introduced by Kuba Szreder, author of The ABC of the projectariat: living and working in a precarious art world”, published by Manchester University Press and The Whitworth.

Mini-MAJELISRural School of EconomicsDrawing towards Cultural Resilienceand Future-Past EconomiesWednesday 25th May 2022from 12.00 - 20.00 CETat ruruHaus and in Kassel or join us on Zoom Plans for the day: 12.00Welcome by Myvillages and ruruHaus. (all English)Introducing the Rural School of Economics, local partners and learning together in and around Kassel. With Kathrin Böhm and Wapke Feenstra from Myvillages. Introducing the programme for the day & moderator Amira El Ah.

Plein Air Come over to Kassel / komm auch nach Nordstadtpark Kassel -Samstag, 14.5. und Sonntag, 15.5.Zeichenaktion mit Myvillages, Kulturzentrum Schlachthof, und Theresa Marx, Wapke Feenstra, Gerrit Retterath, Nicola Anna Dubiel und viele anderen… 12–17:30 Uhr. Beim Zeichnen unter freiem Himmel wird die Natur des Nordstadtparks genauer in den Blick genommen. Die Ergebnisse des Workshops werden Teil des Documenta-Programms. Das Angebot wird der Auftakt eines Zeichen-Sommers. Plein Air in Nordstadtpark KasselDrawing with Myvillages, Kulturzentrum Schlachthof, and Theresa Marx, Wapke Feenstra, Gerrit Retterath, Nicola Anna Dubiel and many others…12–5.