Cuenta la naranja urbana / Tales of the urban orange
Barcelona, Cataluña, España | en proceso
En colaboración con Eloise Maltby Maland.
El proyecto entrelaza historias escritas y espontáneas en torno a las naranjas que crecen en los árboles de Sant Andreu del Palomar en Barcelona.
Entre la montaña y el mar, las calles de Sant Andreu se tiñen de naranjas. Su olor fragante, su fruta colgando pesadamente de los árboles. Sin embargo, el pavimento está pegajoso con fruta que se pudre lentamente. La naranja urbana no se come.
Sant Andreu cultiva el 35% de todos los naranjos de Barcelona, con 2983 naranjos en total. Esta fruta amarga es común aquí ahora, pero tiene una historia enredada, viaja a través de países y continentes y se origina en el norte de la India. La palabra 'naranja' ha viajado con la fruta, a través de lenguas latinas, árabes, persas y sánscritas. Con este viaje, la naranja ha cambiado de estatus, pasando de ser una fruta de la nobleza a una fruta para la comunidad. Estos frutos amargos aquí son frutos públicos, creciendo en espacios comunes. Un fruto para el colectivo. La naranja urbana es para tod+s.
Cuenta la naranja urbana invita a personas de todas las edades del barrio de Sant Andreu del Palomar a participar en un proceso para hacer comestible esta naranja amarga. Juntos recogeremos naranjas de los árboles, las limpiaremos y las usaremos para hacer mermelada y un cóctel de naranja amarga. Mientras recolectamos, lavamos, cortamos, exprimimos, removemos, calentamos, mezclamos, probamos, comemos y bebemos, compartiremos historias entre nosotros, envolviendo las naranjas en relatos de sus historias, rastreando posibles mitos, compartiendo recetas, contando poemas y representando futuros imaginados. Moviéndose entre la realidad y la ficción, invitaremos a todos a compartir sus propias historias. Mientras compartimos las naranjas entre nosotros, diseccionando la fruta para hacer algo nuevo, tejeremos juntos un espacio común de narración.
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain | ongoing
In collaboration with Eloise Maltby Maland.
The project weaves together scripted and spontaneous stories around the oranges growing on the trees of the Sant Andreu del Palomar neighbourhood in Barcelona.
Between the mountains and the sea, the streets of Sant Andreu are lined with oranges. The smell fragrant, the fruit hanging heavy on the trees. Yet the pavement is sticky with slowly rotting fruit. The urban orange is not eaten.
Sant Andreu grows 35% of all of Barcelona’s orange trees, with 2983 orange trees in total. This bitter fruit is a common one here now, but has a tangled history, travelling across countries and continents, and originating in Northern India. The word ‘orange’ has travelled with the fruit, through languages of Latin, Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit. With this journey, the orange has shifted in status, moving from a fruit of the nobility to a fruit for the community. These bitter fruit here are public fruit, growing in common spaces. A fruit for the collective. The urban orange is for everyone.
Cuenta la naranja urbana invites people of all ages from the Sant Andreu del Palomar neighbourhood to take part in a process of making this bitter orange edible. Together we will collect oranges from the trees, clean them and use them to make marmalade and a bitter orange cocktail. As we pick, wash, cut, juice, stir, heat, mix, taste, eat and drink, we will share stories with each other, wrapping the oranges in stories of their histories, tracing possible myths, sharing recipes, recounting poems and performing imagined futures. Moving between fact and fiction, we will invite everyone to share their own stories. As we share the oranges with each other, dissecting the fruit to make something new, we will weave together a common space of storytelling.
The project weaves together scripted and spontaneous stories around the oranges growing on the trees of the Sant Andreu del Palomar neighbourhood in Barcelona.
Between the mountains and the sea, the streets of Sant Andreu are lined with oranges. The smell fragrant, the fruit hanging heavy on the trees. Yet the pavement is sticky with slowly rotting fruit. The urban orange is not eaten.
Sant Andreu grows 35% of all of Barcelona’s orange trees, with 2983 orange trees in total. This bitter fruit is a common one here now, but has a tangled history, travelling across countries and continents, and originating in Northern India. The word ‘orange’ has travelled with the fruit, through languages of Latin, Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit. With this journey, the orange has shifted in status, moving from a fruit of the nobility to a fruit for the community. These bitter fruit here are public fruit, growing in common spaces. A fruit for the collective. The urban orange is for everyone.
Cuenta la naranja urbana invites people of all ages from the Sant Andreu del Palomar neighbourhood to take part in a process of making this bitter orange edible. Together we will collect oranges from the trees, clean them and use them to make marmalade and a bitter orange cocktail. As we pick, wash, cut, juice, stir, heat, mix, taste, eat and drink, we will share stories with each other, wrapping the oranges in stories of their histories, tracing possible myths, sharing recipes, recounting poems and performing imagined futures. Moving between fact and fiction, we will invite everyone to share their own stories. As we share the oranges with each other, dissecting the fruit to make something new, we will weave together a common space of storytelling.