‘Our Living Soil’

During Our Living Soil, we will reflect on the meaning of art as fieldwork together with the artists and the audience through debate, workshops and expeditions: how do we present work that deals with a landscape in the art space, what forms of publicity can we develop that maintain the connection with the location and the process of research? Our Living Soil consists of an exhibition with projects inside and outside the pavilion and an extensive public programme of debates, workshops and expeditions.

In our capitalist society, soil is seen as one of the many natural resources that can be used. But soil is much more than that; it is something alive and nourishing. Furthermore, healthy soil is essential for all life on earth, including our human life. We need a rediscovery with new stories to understand and experience our relationship to soil. While science takes a narrow, specialist view of soil research, art plays a vital role in representing and shaping new practices and portraying the many diverse cultural relationships people can have with soil. By asking different questions, artists can establish connections from a different perspective in which we evidently experience entanglement – the coexistence of people and soil.

More information: Zone2Source, ‘Our Living Soil’