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Van Oldenbarneveltstraat 63A, Nijmegen
Language: English
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What happens in the soil underneath our feet? Which beings create the soils we live with? And how can we become familiar with these crawlers, microbes and fungi that live and work in the soil? 

Artists Christine Hvidt and Špela Petrič focus on this question in the workshop Life Soil Labour Technology. The workshop takes place in the midst of the exhibition Soil Life. In this exhibition, new modes of learning, feeling, doing and regenerating emerge from long-standing research with the soils we inhabit.

During the workshop, participants will untangle the complex webs of beings living and working in the soil to grasp a better understanding of the influence of humans on soil life. By engaging in the smelling of soils, listening to their sounds, talking about horti- and agriculture and speculating about the ways and workings of the beings in the soil, the artists invite the participants to think about their relationship to the soil they live with.

Špela Petrič (SL, 1980)

Špela Petrič is a Slovenian new media artist with a background in the natural sciences. Her artistic practice combines biomedia practices and performativity to enact strange relations between bodies that reveal the underpinnings of our (bio)technological societies and propose alternatives. While working towards an egalitarian and critical discourse between the professional and public spheres, she tries to envision artistic experiments that produce questions relevant to anthropology, psychology, and philosophy. She extends her artistic research with art/sci workshops devoted to informing and sensitizing the interested public, particularly younger generations. Petrič has received several awards, such as the White Aphroid for outstanding artistic achievement (Slovenia), the Bioart and Design Award (Netherlands), and an Award of Distinction at Prix Ars Electronica (Austria).

Christine Hvidt (DK/NL, 1989)

Christine Hvidt is a Danish multidisciplinary artist based in the Netherlands and Denmark with a burning heart for the peculiar life forms and stranger-than-human intelligences inhabiting the earthly ecologies. Repositioning the ‘human’ within the rhizomatic entanglement of the larger community of life, Christine explores circumstances for respectful, humble and intimate connections with the places we are situated within, our fellow planet dwellers, and the complex interdependencies of life. These connections are found through embodied and technology-based artistic situations and experiments situated between poetry, art, research, science, technology, bioacoustics, performance, audio(visual) and relational work with ecosystems and the life inhabiting them. Christine holds a BA in Art and Technology (Aalborg University, DK) and an MA from Artscience Interfaculty (University of the Arts, The Hague, NL).