Soils Turn Speaker Series

Claire Pentecost

Thursday, April 17

United States: 9am HDT, 11am PDT, Noon MDT, 1pm CDT, 2pm EDT

For the fourth of five online events for the Soils Turn Speaker Series, presenting the work of artists focused on addressing soils as art, artist and writer Claire Pentecost will relate some of her pleasures studying underground biology. Among the art projects she will discuss are early works engaging compost, and later work such as soil-erg commissioned by the dOCUMENTA(13) which proposed a new economy based on the value of healthy soil. soil-erg has been recreated for several international venues, most recently in Panama, an iteration for which she made a new suite of drawings featuring Latin American environmental activists and philosophers. She will also show work linking human health to healthy soils and end with a few examples of soil chromatography.

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.

Member Speaker

Claire Pentecost is an artist and writer who researches the living matters of the unified multi-dimensional being that animates our planet. Pentecost’s work is driven by research and inspired by questions of form. Pentecost has exhibited work at dOCUMENTA (13); 13th Istanbul Biennial; White Chapel Gallery; MCA Chicago; Times Museum (Guangzhou); Higher Pictures Generation (NYC), and others.She is a founding member of Deep Time Chicago, a collective exploring cultural change in response to ecological crisis, and the Anthropocene Commons, an international research network. With Brian Holmes she directs Watershed Art&Ecology, an experimental cultural space in Chicago. www.clairepentecost.org

This event is free for members + one guest. $5 for non-members. All participants MUST REGISTER.