TERRENE (2022-ongoing)
Collective experience with Urban Soil
TERRENE involves speculative geology and dialogical sculptural/installation work. In this practice I am interested in observing people's relation to urban anthropogenic soils in different social, cultural, historical and intercontinental contexts. The experimentr usually start with the gathering of soil from surroundings, enabling unlikely encounters among people, localities and matter. The material collected is available for the participants to freely model. They are invited to ‘encounter’ this soil, to feel it and interact with the different elements through process-oriented molding, dispensing guidelines, explanations or even spoken language in general. In some instances, the actions have been done together with children and have allowed subtitle and non-verbal discussions about territory, history, movement and sense of belonging. The actions are concluded with the rustic burning of the objects produced, mesmerically observing the vitality of matter in action, moving, melting, adapting and joining other bodies in its rhythm. When the material is cooled, there is always a surprise to observe its new configuration. Matter and participants meet again after a process of performativity and transformation. With this practice I look to embrace a dialogical formation of matter and entanglenment with urban , degraded and contaminated soils.
>>>in the framework of the exhibition Soil Conversations, Galerie im Koernerpark, Berlin, DE, Jul., 2023.
Terrene, 2022 - ongoing, components that belong and are found in the Neukölln"s subsoil: soil, clay, sand, construction debris, plastic, stones, metals and others, in the framework of the exhibition Soil Conversations, Galerie im Koernerpark, Berlin, DE, Jul., 2023.
Local sub-soil material being collected in the Neukölln district during construction work, July 2023
>>>in the framework of the TAKEOVER at Villa Romana, Sicily, IT, Aug., 2023.
Terrene, 2022 - ongoing, components that belong and are found in the subsoil of Villa Romana: soil, clay, sand, construction debris, plastic, stones, metals and others, in the framework of the TAKEOVER at Villa Romana, a program dedicated to children, organized by Archipel e.V, Sicily, IT, Aug., 2023.
about the TAKEOVER> A program inhabiting the interface between art and education, while also participating firmly in contemporary art practices and discourses. Much has been happening at several scales in efforts to decentralise in order to decolonise artistic practices, bringing important political issues to discussion and pressuring necessary world changes. Inasmuch breakthroughs have been happening by shaking curatorial hierarchies, renouncing the dominance of object orientation and hearing and honouring non-hegemonic voices -, there is an eminent necessity to reintegrate joy and experience in the alternative worldings we are all engaged in through the arts. Children’s universes across cultures are permeated by primarily sensorial environmental experience.
@archipeldotcommunity invites children for a week-long participatory process of taking over Villa Romana, enabling a laboratory for dynamic conviviality and public domesticity. The main guideline is to work with an elemental and playful world experience and therefore plan on engaging with different qualities of earthly materials, sand, compost, rocks, allowing the momentary and also building micro-worlds in order to do micro-politics.
>>>PLAY at ACaU! at Uferstudios Tanz Berlin , a program dedicated to Ukraine’s war refugee children and their newly arrived parents in Berlin
Local soil being collected in front of the Uferstudios Tanz Berlin (Heizhaus / PSR headquarters) at a depth of 4 meters during Berlin state repair work in July 2022
Terrene, 2022 - ongoing, components that belong and are found in the subsoil: soil, clay, sand, construction debris, plastic, stones, metals and others, those experiments took place as part of ACaU! at Uferstudios Tanz Berlin , a program dedicated to Ukraine’s war refugee children and their newly arrived parents in Berlin, organized by volunteers from Soydivision.berlin and Neue Häute eV., Berlin, DE, Jul., 2022
>>>AUSUFERN, UferStudios, Berlin, DE, Sep., 2022
Terrene, 2022 - ongoing, components that belong and are found in the subsoil: soil, clay, sand, construction debris, plastic, stones, metals and others, experiment took place at the event AUSUFERN, UferStudios, Berlin, DE, Sep., 2022
TERRENE (2022-ongoing)
Collective experience with Urban Soil
TERRENE involves speculative geology and dialogical sculptural/installation work. In this practice I am interested in observing people's relation to urban anthropogenic soils in different social, cultural, historical and intercontinental contexts. The experimentr usually start with the gathering of soil from surroundings, enabling unlikely encounters among people, localities and matter. The material collected is available for the participants to freely model. They are invited to ‘encounter’ this soil, to feel it and interact with the different elements through process-oriented molding, dispensing guidelines, explanations or even spoken language in general. In some instances, the actions have been done together with children and have allowed subtitle and non-verbal discussions about territory, history, movement and sense of belonging. The actions are concluded with the rustic burning of the objects produced, mesmerically observing the vitality of matter in action, moving, melting, adapting and joining other bodies in its rhythm. When the material is cooled, there is always a surprise to observe its new configuration. Matter and participants meet again after a process of performativity and transformation. With this practice I look to embrace a dialogical formation of matter and entanglenment with urban , degraded and contaminated soils.
>>>in the framework of the exhibition Soil Conversations, Galerie im Koernerpark, Berlin, DE, Jul., 2023.
Terrene, 2022 - ongoing, components that belong and are found in the Neukölln"s subsoil: soil, clay, sand, construction debris, plastic, stones, metals and others, in the framework of the exhibition Soil Conversations, Galerie im Koernerpark, Berlin, DE, Jul., 2023.
>>>in the framework of the TAKEOVER at Villa Romana, Sicily, IT, Aug., 2023.
Terrene, 2022 - ongoing, components that belong and are found in the subsoil of Villa Romana: soil, clay, sand, construction debris, plastic, stones, metals and others, in the framework of the TAKEOVER at Villa Romana, a program dedicated to children, organized by Archipel e.V, Sicily, IT, Aug., 2023.
about the TAKEOVER> A program inhabiting the interface between art and education, while also participating firmly in contemporary art practices and discourses. Much has been happening at several scales in efforts to decentralise in order to decolonise artistic practices, bringing important political issues to discussion and pressuring necessary world changes. Inasmuch breakthroughs have been happening by shaking curatorial hierarchies, renouncing the dominance of object orientation and hearing and honouring non-hegemonic voices -, there is an eminent necessity to reintegrate joy and experience in the alternative worldings we are all engaged in through the arts. Children’s universes across cultures are permeated by primarily sensorial environmental experience.
@archipeldotcommunity invites children for a week-long participatory process of taking over Villa Romana, enabling a laboratory for dynamic conviviality and public domesticity. The main guideline is to work with an elemental and playful world experience and therefore plan on engaging with different qualities of earthly materials, sand, compost, rocks, allowing the momentary and also building micro-worlds in order to do micro-politics.
>>>PLAY at ACaU! at Uferstudios Tanz Berlin , a program dedicated to Ukraine’s war refugee children and their newly arrived parents in Berlin
Local soil being collected in front of the Uferstudios Tanz Berlin (Heizhaus / PSR headquarters) at a depth of 4 meters during Berlin state repair work in July 2022
Terrene, 2022 - ongoing, components that belong and are found in the subsoil: soil, clay, sand, construction debris, plastic, stones, metals and others, those experiments took place as part of ACaU! at Uferstudios Tanz Berlin , a program dedicated to Ukraine’s war refugee children and their newly arrived parents in Berlin, organized by volunteers from Soydivision.berlin and Neue Häute eV., Berlin, DE, Jul., 2022
>>>AUSUFERN, UferStudios, Berlin, DE, Sep., 2022
Terrene, 2022 - ongoing, components that belong and are found in the subsoil: soil, clay, sand, construction debris, plastic, stones, metals and others, experiment took place at the event AUSUFERN, UferStudios, Berlin, DE, Sep., 2022