Soils Turn Speaker Series
Asad Raza
Thursday, February 13
United States: 9am HST, 11am PST, Noon MST, 1pm CDT, 2pm EST
Europe: 19:00 GMT Australia: Friday, February 4, 6am AEDT
For the second of five online events for the Soils Turn Speaker Series, presenting the work of artists focused on addressing soils as art, artist Asad Raza will discuss his soil-related works. These include the interactive room installation, Absorption, in which cultivators created artificial soil for the 34th Kaldor Public Art Project in Sydney (2019), later shown at the Gropius Bau, Berlin (2020), Ruhrtriennale (2021), and Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Art (2022), and Root sequence. Mother tongue, which was featured at the 2017 Whitney Biennial, as well as the Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai in 2017 and the Down to Earth Exhibition at the TU-Dresden in 2022. With a focus on creating dialogue and relationships with materials, spaces, and human collaborators and participants, Raza is deeply concerned with practices of care and the understanding of art as a metabolic, (inter)active experience.
This conversation will be moderated by co-editor of the upcoming ecoartspace printed book, Soils Turn, Dr. Alexandra Toland, Professor of Arts & Research at Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany.
Guest Speaker
Asad Raza creates dialogues and rejects disciplinary boundaries in his work, which conceives of art as a metabolic, active encounter within and beyond the exhibition setting. Raza’s practice often takes planetary ecologies as a focus, with a strong emphasis on the participatory and the performative aspects of art, as well as an engagement with all of the senses. His recent exhibitions and ambitious public art projects, such as Prehension (2024), Diversion (2022), Absorption (2019), and Root sequence. Mother tongue (2017), all involve both scripted and improvised interactions with natural materials. His projects have been realized by institutions such as Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Manifesta 15, Barcelona; Gropius Bau, Berlin; Serpentine Galleries, London; Kunsthalle Portikus, Frankfurt; Ruhrtriennale, Essen; Kaldor Public Art Projects, Sydney; the Lahore Biennale; Museion, Bolzano; and Mori Art Museum, Tokyo.
This event is free for members + one guest. $5 for non-members. All participants MUST REGISTER.
