Co-curating the UK’s celebration of UN International Year of Soils
Clive Adams, co-founder of the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World and the three-year Soil Culture initiative, invited us to animate two specially-commissioned exhibitions as part of a wider co-curation of a UK contribution to UN International Year of the Soils 2015. Our response, Soil Saturdays as part of Soil Culture at Create emerged through three months of conversations with local organisations and individuals, as well as national groups working to protect soils. The matter of living soil and food was present within the gallery, on the Soil Shrine, as part of activities, and nourishingly and colourfully manifest through freshly prepared food sourced from Bristol and its hinterland and cooked in collaboration with Daphne Lambert.
Soil Culture at Create initiative went on to receive the AWE-inspiring commendation from the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM). We were commissioned to reflect with Clive Adams on the collaborative processes within ‘Curating the Convivial’ published in Geohumanties journal. Please watch our Soil Saturdays film made in collaboration with Joanne Barker.
