Soil symposium

The Soil Symposium is a cross disciplinary meeting place for artists and researchers to discuss the matter, memories and futures of soil.
The focus of the seminar will be the work of Swedish art and agriculture group Kultivator, who will share their commission for The Experimental Field called the Soil Faculty.
The symposium is a gathering site for the researchers from many different fields who have contributed to the Experimental Field to connect in an interdisciplinary environment. Departing from the artwork presented by Kultivator, the symposium is a practical way to share inter-disciplinary perspectives on the vast topic of soil as experimental matter.
Curator and moderator of the Soil Symposium is Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris, Project Leader Researcher Collaborations at Accelerator.

Soil Faculty

Installation view from the exhibition “The Experimental Field” at Accelerator 2021. 

On the shores of now, preview

M/Other Futures

Workshop M/other futures at Kultivator, part of the project m/other becomings,  a collaboration between Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology (DK), The Association for Arts and Mental Health (DK), Kultivator (SE), Art Lab Gnesta (SE) and Bioart Society (FI). http://www.labae.org/past#/mother-becomings

In this workshop, the invited artists Signe Johannessen, SE/NO, Karin Bolender, US, Riina Hannula, FI, the Rhizomatic squad for radical care, FR, and their families, has worked (and lived) around questions about how kinship and family constellations can be cultivated beyond gender and anthropocentric policies, and extended into the more-than-human. With the kind and patient participation of numerous more-than-human bodies, we have been able to try the possibilities of challenging and broadening the concept of family/household and take a closer look at the interplay between ecology and home (the word ecology comes from the Greek “Oikos”, which means home) The outcome of the workshop was shared with the audience in an open day, and will be further developed for an exhibition in Artlab Gnesta in November.

Funded by IASPIS, Nordic culture point, Nordic culture fund

The leaking monument

The leaking monument is a part of Statens konstråds kunskapssatsning “Lokala konstprojekt“
Kultivator, Öland. Artists: Signe Johannessen, Erik Rören, Mathieu Vrijman and Trish Roan.
See the website: https://theleakingmonument.se/