FARMA - Aga Beaupré & Ramona Güntert

FARMA is a post-human world where mankind is no more, but the lives of farm animals continue in a once-given rhythm. The cows continue to produce milk, fully dependent on the synthetic milkmaid tubes. The blind fish swim in circles against the perpetual, man made current. Wheat maintained its territory, with no one to rule over.

Are these gardens of Eden? Or the Apocalypse?

Humanity, seduced by the domesticated animals, has steadily managed to decrease the number of wildlife to only four percent of earth’s biomass. Sixty-two percent are the species we prevent from becoming extinct, while making them incapable of living on their own.

The unlikely scenarios of the post-human ecosystems of Farma, are an attempt to imagine the worldwide catastrophe, through the eyes of other species. By limiting the narration to the remote and constrained perspective of the farm animals, we are exploring familiar notions, from a foreign point of view. The project consists of two closely intertwined parts: written publication with
images ‘genesis/ apocalypse’ and a film installation ‘eden, eden, eden’.

The text functions as a part of a double document – accompanied by a series of photographs, it becomes an inventory of the abandoned but prevailing habitat. The images which make up the other half of the publication, could be considered an alien perspective – the eye which sees them, does not raise organic tissue above the synthetic one. It does not choose living matter over the inanimate. It ceases to notice difference between living and the dead/ fiction and reality.

Self-published, 2024
Various paper stocks in three sections with ring binder
Edition of 50 copies 
360 x 240mm