It was important for us not only to transform how art happens and manifests itself when embedded in the historical and material conditions of what we call “contemporary art”, but also to revive the rural cultures. We wanted to bring these two processes into dialogue so that they would be mutually reinforcing and symbiotic; there was the need to encourage cultural workers to reconsider their spaces of production and their meaning and to look at the rural as a possibility, as a platform for a deeper and inevitable ecological and social change. Then, of course, the personal need to make possible the countryside I would like to live in.

Amelie Aranguren