How are soils made present in urban planning processes, documents, and laws? This is one of the questions we attend to in this project’s exploration of relations between people and soils in the urban landscape. In what forms are soils taken into account? In our […]
Image above: Gipsön, the Gypsum Island. Film still: Karin Wegsjö / (p)Art of the Biomass. In a series of excursions, seminars and art & science retreats, Humus economicus aims to visit sites that bear witness, or stand as ruins of recent pasts. The sites have […]
For Sentinel-1, a satellite pair orbiting planet Earth to meticulously and regularly scan its surface, my allotment garden covers four pixels, almost. The pixels have a resolution of 10 x 10 meters. The essential thing about these pixels is that they are not sealed with […]
Above: Kultivator “Soil Faculty”, 2020. Installation view from the exhibition “The Experimental Field” at Accelerator 2021. Photo: Christian Saltas. Join us at the Soil Symposium, curated and moderated by Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris! The Soil Symposium is a cross disciplinary meeting place for artists and researchers to […]
Above: water color sketch in preparation for the carpet A Fallow / En Träda, Maja Fjaestad, 1919. Photo: Åsa Elzén. On May 4, we had the great pleasure of meeting artist Åsa Elzén who for many years – through a series of works, exhibitions, conversations, […]
3-4 May, 2021 During this second art & science retreat (see No. 1 here), we continued our series of walks, where we visit knotted sites that bear witness to how human-soil relations have changed landscapes as well as heritage and soil imaginaries in a Swedish […]
Ditte Vilstrup Holm writes in her review (in Danish only) SOS! Så majs, bønner og squash! about the exhibition Sustainable Societies for the Future at Malmö art museum, and delivers insightful reflections about the relational and process oriented work Four Sisters for Planthroposcene and the […]
The first workshop by the State of the Art Network explores living matter and dives deep into the knowledge of soil. It connects the soil-inclined Nordic network of artists and researchers, inviting the participants to literally plant their feet and to feed their guts and […]
A research project at Swedish National Historical Museums. Funded by Formas, a Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development
