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Silos are meant to store massive accumulations of stuff. Specifically grain, as in Greek siros, or "corn pit." Throughout history the silo as form and function has enabled seeds and food to be sorted, dried, packed, and contained in order to save communities from a future without. These storage solutions have enabled humans to stave off starvation by storing these resources for future use and withstand times of drought, floods, warfare, and decay. Yet, the silo of modernity has created a monolith of impenetrable walls which imprison not only our seeds of life as massifications of industrial germoplasm and capital, but also maintains living knowledge as isolated disciplines locked away within their own hubris. In this isolation, food, farming, and culture are seemingly unrelated, as is our subject of inquiry, Food Justice.

As residents of Santa Fe Art Institute Food Justice Program, SeedBroadcast created |UN|silo|ED|. We invited creative practitioners from diverse backgrounds to collaborate with us, while creating a space for each of them to share their work with food, seeds, art, education, farming/gardening, activism and policy making. This process generated a collection of images, statements, words and actions, as well as a soundscape of voices talking about what Food Justice means to them. This project was presented for public viewing and participation at the Santa Fe Art Institute as a 2 month-long iterative installation for cultivating an |UN|silo|ED| animation of Food Justice.  

Special Programming included a public Seed Saving Workshop led by Rowen White, Community Pot Luck, responsive performance with Dancing Earth Creations performers, Public Seed Swap, and a Food Justice day with the Mobile Seed Story Broadcasting Station.