Magma’s take:
Exploring the role of soil and nature in Art
Interdisciplinary conversations on art, agriculture, gardens and burials.
A Gathering on Art and Land is a day centring art and design-led approaches to planting, farming, seeding, gardening and burying. Through conversations and presentations, the event explores our relationship to the land, using ground and soil practices to start ecological conversations and reveal their potential for transformation, regeneration, and hope.
This gathering advocates for imagination and coexistence with the non-human world, platforming alternative ways of understanding and relating to the land in the face of a destructive, globalised discourse. Highlighting the importance of creativity, Indigenous land management and communal engagement, A Gathering on Art and Land underscores the transformative power of culture and stewardship, emphasising how artists engage directly with the earth in their practices.
Programme
11:00am Introductions
11:15am Sandra Knecht discusses her practice across art and ecology in
conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, introduced by Raphael Suter, Head of the Geiger Foundation.
12:00pm Caroline Jones in-conversation with Lucia Pietroiusti, talk about Weird Cuttings, or Invisibilities of the Anthropocene.
1:00pm Contributions by Carla Subrizi, Kalpana Arias and Marcus Coates followed by an in-conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, discussing communion with the land and the natural and built environments as sites for politics.
2:40pm Eva Papamargariti
3:00pm Yinka Shonibare CBE RA in-conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, talk about his exhibition Suspended States and his longstanding commitment to ecology in his practice.
3:45pm G.A.S. Foundation residency alumni Remi Kuforiji and Graeme Smith discuss their work and experience on the residency programme in Nigeria with Belinda Holden.
5:00pm Sky Hopinka shares a new film, Subterranean Moon, and poem, Denizens of Hell, works-in-progress that address the issues surrounding the Native American graves and Protections Act.
5:45pm END