Sites of Practice
AboutSites of… Practice was a year-long programme tracking the cultural and ecological resurgence taking shape across an emerging field of site-specific, art- and design-led experiments — spanning pedagogy, cultural production, agriculture, social design, and environmental repair.
These sites, shared below, brought together organisational and ecological thinking to move beyond awareness-raising. Rather than making work about climate and ecology, artists, culture-makers, and political and ecological thinkers worked with land-based contexts, for the climate and their communities — growing local capacity for resilience in the face of the polycrisis. The "…" in the title pointed to the many forms this practice took. Sites of (rooted, situated, reciprocal, reparative, systemic, collective) practice emerged, and continue to.
It was curated by Lucia Pietroiusti (Head of Ecologies, Serpentine, London) and Helen Turner (Artistic Director and Chief Curator, E-WERK Luckenwalde), in collaboration with curator Nada Rosa Schroer. Hosted by E-WERK Luckenwalde, Germany. Click here for the programme.
Estudio Nuboso - A platform for art and ecology based in Panama. Estudio Nuboso’s vision is to restore the relationship between humans and nature as part of the global movement that seeks to create greater reciprocity with the planet.
Mustarinda Association is a non-profit group of artists and researchers, founded in 2010, whose goal is to promote the ecological rebuilding of society, the diversity of culture and nature, and the connection between art and science.
Vessel - A collective studio, arts and event space on the island of Aegina, Greece with a core interest in ecology, resilience, and co-education in the context of the Greek islands and the wider Mediterranean.
The Institute for Postnatural Studies - a centre for artistic experimentation from which to explore and problematize postnature as a framework for contemporary creation.
Katzenwedelwiese - an alter-institutional project born during the exhibition Critical Zones that took place at the ZKM in Karlsruhe. This was developed by artist and ecologist Stéphane V. Bottéro to rethink the role of cultural institutions in the context of accelerating climate change and the collapse of the biosphere.
Cuerpoterritorio - a cultural association based in Valencia. The mission of the association is to promote artistic expression and eco-social awareness through an eco-feminist perspective by materializing values of care towards human and more than human communities.
Are | are-events.org (ARE) - based in Prague and Orlické Mountains, where they established Woods – Community for Cultivation, Theory and Art.
