Soil, Dust, Fear, Rhythm traces the marks and scars - as well as open wounds - of colonialism in ecology. Ecosystems, territorial engineering, soil, air and water bear witness as black boxes to the ways in which they have been transformed, contaminated, plundered and/or exhausted by an overlapping logic of capitalism, extractivism and colonialism.
Through the practice of artists, poets and architects, the four sessions address the traces (material, geological, imaginary or sound) left by these forms violence; the methodologies, technologies or artistic operations that make them visible; the cycles of toxicity and regeneration; the myths and stories that populate these scenarios of exploitation, and the forms of resistance or utopian imagination.
Instructions and Possibilities to Scare a Mountain – 11 April at 11 am
Revolutions Are Geological, Not Just Political Acts of Defiance – 29 April at 6 pm
A Conversation about Dust – 30 May at 5 pm
Forest Islands of our ecological diaspora – 28 June
Presentation of some of her projects, including Forest islands of our ecological diaspora; The holes in the earth mirror the holes in our souls (and from them we can grow trees); If toxic air is a monument to slavery, how do we take it down?, and her manifesto essay Black Ecologies: an opening, an offering.
Samia Henni, Lydia Ourahmane and Khaled Bouzidi invited by the Dust Pavilion research group, comprising Llorenç Bonet, Olga Subirós and Joana Teixidor. An afternoon of conversations and performance between the Fundació Joan Miró and the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion.
Conversation between the artist Kapwani Kiwanga and the geographer and academic Kathryn Yusoff
about "Revolutions Are Geological, Not Just Political Acts of Defiance"
A b2b between River Claure’s photos and Mafe Moscoso’s texts
