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• SOILS TURN: Book launch at Zabriskie in Berlin

  • When
    Saturday, December 06, 2025
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    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
  • Location
    ZOOM - Mountain Time

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  SOILS TURN book launch - BERLIN

  Saturday, December 6 Timebuddy
  

  United States: 8am HST, 10am PST, 11am MST, Noon CST, 1pm EST (online)

  Europe: 18:00 GMT, 19:00 CET (Doors open at 18:30) 

  Field Guide to Artistic Earthly Engagements presentation led by Alexandra R. Toland, with acknowledgements by Patricia Watts
  

  Alexandra will present the recently published ecoartspace book Soils Turn, highlighting the work of over thirty distinguished soil artists, including soil essays, and a directory of over 140 soil artists, in a hybrid live x Zoom launch, accompanied by an in-store sound performance by Sam Johnstone and Sophia Fernandez.

  "…human beings are not in a separate compost pile. We are humus, not Homo, not anthropos; we are compost, not posthuman." Donna Haraway

  Haraway’s clarion call to reimagine human‘ as humus‘ reflects a recent ‘soils turn’ in the social sciences and humanities, and is a provocation for mainstream soil knowledge that empowers humans to reconnect with soils. Heeding this call, Soils Turn is the 2025 ecoartspace printed book, realized as a directory of artists, designers, architects, and other creatives engaging with soil materials and soil protection issues. 

  Under pressures of climate change, food sovereignty, pollution, and biodiversity loss, care of soils is urgently needed and must be addressed from multiple perspectives. Soils Turn is a practical guide for curators, scientists, students, policy makers and community organizers to connect with aesthetic earthly engagements. 

  
  

  
  

  Dr. Alexandra R. Toland is associate professor for arts and research at the Bauhaus University Weimar, where she directs the Ph.D. programme in art and design. She earned her MFA from the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) and a doctorate degree in landscape planning from the TU-Berlin as a DFG fellow in the Perspectives of Urban Ecology Graduate Research Group. Toland has held lectures and published on topics of art and environment, especially in context of soil protection issues, air pollution, and urban ecology. She co-chaired the German Soil Science Society’s (DBG) Commission on Soils in Education and Society (2011-2015), and since 2022 is IUSS co-chair of the Commission on the History, Philosophy and Sociology (and Arts) of Soil Science. Toland coedited the book Field to Palette: Dialogues on Soil and Art in the Anthropocene published by Routledge (2019). In her artistic practice, she explores social and cultural issues of urban soils, vegetation, and air in the Anthropocene, and has exhibited works, for example, at Ars Electronica (Prix Honorary Mention in 2017), Museum Schloß Moyland, the German Hygiene Museum Dresden, the Centre for Contemporary Art Glasgow, and Art Laboratory Berlin.

  
  

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• Drowned Land : Indigenizing dominate culture - Pt. IV

  • When
    Thursday, December 18, 2025
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    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    ZOOM - Mountain Time

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  Drowned Land : Indigenizing dominate culture - Pt. IV 

  Thursday, November 20 Timebuddy
  

  United States: 11am HST, 1pm PST, 2pm MST, 3pm CST, 4pm EST 

  Europe: 21:00 GMT, 22:00 CET

  Australia: Friday, November 21, 8am AEDT

  For this screening and Q&A event we will hear from Colleen Thurston (Choctaw), Director of the documentary Drowned Land, which shares the stories of a group of water protectors determined to preserve the lifeline of their community and end a cycle of environmental exploitation on the Kiamichi River in Oklahoma.

  Winding its way through southeastern Oklahoma, deep in the Choctaw Nation, the Kiamichi River is a bastion of eco-diversity. Much to the dismay of communities along the river, the state of Oklahoma recently signed an agreement to dam and divert 85% of its remaining water.

  This isn’t a first for the Kiamichi and its tributaries, already twice-dammed to create reservoirs. One, Sardis Lake, is named after the town that was flooded by the Army Corps of Engineers in 1980. All that is left of Sardis is the cemetery, now an island in the middle of the lake.

  Residents of communities along the Kiamichi are determined that their water source should not be further disturbed. A group of locals have banded together to fight developers and the state in court over their river, invoking the Endangered Species Act–not only is the Kiamichi the most ecologically diverse river in the state, it is the most mussel-diverse river in the world.

  This is the fourth and final event in our fall series exploring how Indigenizing dominant culture can encourage a greater balance between humans and the more-than-human world.

  SCREENING INFORMATION TO COME....

  
  

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  Coleen Thurston is a documentary storyteller, producer and film curator from Tulsa, Oklahoma. She has created non-fiction film and videos for the Smithsonian Channel, Vox, and museums, public television, and federal and tribal organizations. Grounding her filmmaking practice in place-based narratives and Indigenous world views, her work has screened at international film festivals and broadcast nationwide. Her work has been supported by Firelight Media, the Sundance Institute, Patagonia, ITVS, Vision Maker Media, the Ford Foundation, the Redford Center, and Creative Capital. Colleen’s first feature documentary DROWNED LAND (2025) examines the cycle of displacement as it is related to resource extraction in her tribe, the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Colleen is the project producer for the Indigenous video series Native Lens, and is a senior programmer for Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival and an Associate Programmer for MountainFilm. She has curated film programs for institutions such as the Momentary (Bentonville, AR), the Smithsonian’s Native Cinema Showcase (Santa Fe, NM), the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), UCLA Film and Television Archives and Vidiots (Los Angeles, CA) and numerous film festivals. Thurston is the founder of the Indigenous Moving Image Archive and is currently an Tulsa Artist Fellow and International Documentary Association Fellow. drownedland.com

  
  

  This is a fundraiser event. Attendees donate $5 for each ticket. Please purchase as many as you would like to donate. All attendees MUST REGISTER.

  
  

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• Sustain(ability) & the Art Studio - Fall 2025 Presentations

  • When
    Saturday, December 20, 2025
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    12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ZOOM - Mountain Time

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  FALL 2025 Presentations
  

  Saturday, December 20

  United States: 8am HST, 11am PST, Noon MST, 1pm CST, 2pm EST

  Europe: 19:00 GMT  Australia: Sunday, December 21, 6am AEDT

  Participants from the Fall 2025 Sustain(ability) & the Art Studio course will give presentations of their projects for interested members. You can also sign up for the Winter/Spring 2026 session, which will be held on Zoom February through May.
  

  This was the seventh course designed exclusively for ecoartspace members guiding artists to develop ways of thinking about sustainability in their practice, both conceptually and physically. Participants learned how to wildcraft art materials, a practice that requires one to deepen in their relationship with land, creativity, and self. Through lectures, discussions, self-guided creative research, and class presentations, participants were invited to think critically about how their practice engages place, materiality, and voice in a time of socio-ecological destabilization. Join us to witness their journey way-finding a meaningful practice grounded in bioregional artistic research.

  Special thanks to our guest artists Koyoltzintli Miranda-rivadeneira and Nicole Dextras for sharing their practices with the Fall 2025 participants.

  This event is free for members + one guest. Non-members are free. All participants MUST REGISTER.

  
  

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