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Fertile land | virtual tour

Watch a virtual tour of "Fertile land," an exhibition by Nathalie Dagmang that reflects on her encounters with farmers' urban agriculture practices and how this brings to the fore tensions surrounding food insecurity, unemployment, environmental degradation, and disaster risk. "Fertile land" stems from Dagmang’s fieldwork encounters with urban farmers in the areas of Barangays Tumana, Marikina and Banaba, San Mateo. These riverine communities are situated on the east bank of the Marikina river; the former is the subject of the artist’s long-term research and home to many of her close relatives. The farmers’ resourceful and creative innovations in urban agriculture belie worsening levels of land and food security. The exhibition, consisting of found object installations, video, audio, and found documents, surfaces tensions arising from conflicting notions of development in "tumana"—literally "fertile land." Geographically uninhabitable flood plains where river overflow was once depended upon for irrigation and fertilization, their subsequent lowered property values and proximity to commercial centers attract migrants seeking economic mobility. When the city failed to deliver its promise, migrants found the need to once again grow their own food. In this way, urban agriculture lays bare the residents' frustrations towards their environment and local community. Click the link for the video transcript: https://drive.google.com/drive/folder... This video is made together with our interns Tricia Belda and Stephen Gamad.