Ljubljana: a Soil Assembly at Festivities Under Siege
From 20-22 May, Soil Assembly joined artists, activists and cultural practitioners for Festivities Under Siege at Krater, in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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In Ukraine, the Ecostations Network is searching for solutions for restoring war-damaged soils
In May the Ukrainian Ecostations Network, hosted a Soil Assembly on restoring soils damaged by military operations.
Soil Assembly at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale: Situated, For the Time Being
Artist and curator Neal White explores the latest iteration of the Soil Assembly held from 20-25 January at the 6th Edition of the Biennale – titled, ‘For the Time Being’.
Lines to Follow—Soils to Gather: A living artwork ferments its way across the seas
An international collective artwork concluding the Soil Assembly #3 at Kochi–Muziris Biennale 2025 follows ancient spice routes from India to Europe.
Feral by occupation
We are launching a series of essays drawn from the 2024 Feral Labs Node Book #2 and the upcoming #3 issue. Here is an essay by Kate Rich, founder of the legendary Feral Trade project and facilitator of the Feral MBA in Australia.
New Gleaning: Encounter on art and paludiculture with Daniel Hengst
Encounter with intermedia artist Daniel Hengst who presented 'New Gleaning', at the “Swamp Things! The Liveliness of Peatland Plants” exhibition of the _matter festival 2025 in Berlin.
Pedro Soler: “During the Soil Assembly, we explored how the natural world has an agency of itself.”
Interview with Pedro Soler, main curator of the Soil Assembly #2, which took place in La Chimba, Ecuador in may.
The Politics of Symbiosis
We discuss here the discovery, the different understandings and their political meanings of the symbiosis phenomena through times.
Underground subsistence: Feeding beings in the Andes of Ecuador
In Ecuador, in the face of violent land grabbing practices, the Andean population is resisting by safeguarding ancestral practices for their food survival.
Tinku Uku Pacha in Ecuador: towards a second Soil Assembly in 2025
Tinku Uku Pacha, the next international meeting dedicated to art, soil and indigenous knowledge, will be in Ecuador's upper La Chimba valley, at the foot of the magnificent Cayambe volcano.
“It takes the whole region to make the city”: territories, ecosystems and populations by Patrick Geddes
“Learn by doing”, "Think local, act global": P. Geddes (1854-1932), biologist, sociologist and urban planner, thought up the relationship between town and country and reinvented city planning.
Humuspunk: How Does Soil Prototype?
Imagining the future means anchoring practices and aesthetics in the movement and phenomena observable in the soil. The life that animates humus shows the matrix of all creativity.
Planetary Peasants, Werkleitz festival celebrates the 500th anniversary of the German Peasants’ War
This text is an introduction to the exhibition Planetary Peasants at Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle, about the evolution of peasantry in Germany from Thomas Müntzer's Peasants War (15th century) to our times.
Eating the sun: the Disnovation collective explores the Solar Share at the Ars Electronica festival in Austria
The collective Disnovation.org is presenting its new project The Solar Share from 4 to 8 September at the Ars Electronica festival in Linz, Austria.
Fungal cosmology investigations in Patagonia: “art-science research is an invention of modernity”
The Fungi Cosmology project is meeting this September in Switzerland for the latest chapter in their fungal investigations. Impressions from chapter 2 in Patagonia by artist Maya Minder.
A telltale of Sarjapura Curries and associated art space SARLA in Bangalore
Over the past 10 years, artist Suresh Kumar G has set up a community village in Bangalore, India, where agro-ecology and artistic activities are practiced.
The Nutmeg’s Curse, biopolitical wars, terraformation and extermination. Interview with Amitav Ghosh
From book to book, Amitav Ghosh encourages us to think about global crises through the prism of colonialism. We talk to him about his latest work, The Nutmeg's Curse.
Helping migrant people to settle into agriculture and crafts in France
The Association A4 helps migrant people to settle projects in agriculture and crafts. Presentation.
Kerminy, a Space for Agriculture in Arts: Weathered Esthetics
We're experimenting with artistic and agricultural practices at Kerminy. Sonifying natural elements, caring for living things, self-building - we're working towards a concrete utopia.
Plantation Planet
We are living in the Plantationocene, the agro-political order born of decades of post-colonial history. What does this mean, and what are the ways for abandoning this deadly system?