The residency

During their two week residency at Cultureghem, Fuzzy Earth will approach digestion as a multispecies, ecological process, with their collective cooking and participatory project Feeding (on) Earth's Crust. The project examines food as a geological and social connector, revealing how every act of nourishment engages with the Earth’s mineral layers. Rooted in research on the phosphorus crisis and soil regeneration, Feeding (on) Earth's Crust reflects on how extractive agricultural systems have severed natural cycles of renewal.

Public event

Performative meal: 1 April, lunch time

During their residency, Fuzzy Earth will collaborate with local communities, Foodsavers, and Cultureghem’s network of social initiatives to co-create a performative meal. Using locally sourced ingredients, compostable materials, and shared rituals, participants will explore processes of digestion, decay, and renewal as collective ecological acts. Within the abattoir market hall’s diversity, Feeding (on) Earth’s Crust will foster encounters across cultures and generations, transforming everyday food practices into gestures of care and reciprocity toward the soil and one another.

Feeding (on) Earth's Crust

This ongoing research emerged from the pressing ecological crisis surrounding soil degradation, disrupted nutrient cycles, and the overextraction of finite resources like phosphate rock. Industrial agriculture relies heavily on mined fertilisers, decoupling food production from natural cycles of renewal and exhausting the microbial richness of soils. At the same time, social attitudes toward decay, waste, and fermentation have become marked by discomfort and disconnection.

Feeding (on) Earth's Crust responds both to the ecological urgency and the cultural amnesia, reframing digestion not only as a biological process but as an act of reciprocity, care, and resistance. Through sensory experience and embodied participation, the installation invites reflection on how we live with decomposition, and what it might mean to compost not just materials, but extractive habits, broken systems, and inherited fears.

Fuzzy Earth

Fuzzy Earth is a research-based collective led by Tekla Gedeon and Sebastian Gschanes, operating at the intersection of architecture, design, art, agriculture, and technology. Their work builds speculative worlds and explores multispecies entanglements in the era of climate crises, fostering resilient futures. Through ecological storytelling, spatial interventions, and material experiments, they challenge the roles of industrial landscapes, botanical institutions, and ecological environments. Their projects infiltrate unexpected sites, from market halls to gardens, engaging with speculative design to reimagine human-nonhuman relationships.

Cultureghem

Cultureghem is working to transform the abattoirs market (Brussels) into a place for meeting, exchange and sharing around food, art and culture. Seen as a laboratory for social innovation, the organisation offers alternative and sustainable solutions to food insecurity, beyond emergency aid.

IN SITU

This residency and public presentation is supported by IN SITU, the European platform for artistic creation in public space, in the framework of the PLATFORM project (2025-2028), co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.