Initiated by the municipality De Wolden as part of the art and design festival Wiede Wold to celebrate their cultural anniversary around the theme ‘The Future of the Rural’, convened by curators Lisa Hardon & Jorn Konijn, and developed by artist Liselore Frowijn from Studio Frowijn, Soil Stewards to Soilistic Bodies unfolds as an interconnected triptych: a sculpture, a soundscape, and an essay.
The work encourages humans to rethink relationships with soil, by foregrounding the often overlooked minorities within the living soil: worms.
Interactive sculpture
2 speakers and a sensor are built into the polyester object..Entering the gate, a motion sensor a-rhythmically shuffles alternated audio fragments as a soundscape in which thinkers, all relating to soil in various dynamics, allegorically refer to Liselore’s online essay Imagining Soilscapes, Or Queering Common Ground
