Weaving Roots

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Curatorial workshop
Chisenhale Studios, London
2022
(co-curator & producer)

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Press release:
Weaving Roots will offer an opportunity for healing, therapy, reflection, and self-care. While exploring the connection between art, nature, and healing, we will experience the effectiveness of art as a healing and self-care practice. The two-day workshop will function as a safe space to reconnect with art and nature, rediscovering ourselves through a series of collective actions, including a group reading, an art installation, performative meditation sessions, gardening, and artistic participatory performances.

The project is in collaboration with Chisenhale Studios and Cranbrook Community Food Garden.

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Yishuai Zhang’s installation will accompany the workshop, creating an immersive, meditative aesthetic experience. The installation is based on Eastern shamanic rituals using symbols from Iching, moving images, and audio. Together, they assemble a unique space for meditation, purification, and healing through art.

Jean-François Krebs will lead two artistic guided meditation sessions that will be held in the gallery (first day) and in Cranbrook Community Food Garden (second day). The combination of artistic performance, meditation, and participatory action will explore the biology and chemistry of plants in relation to our human existence, using our imagination. By enabling people to, symbolically and gently, transform into plants, we will experience the way plants convert light into matter, their unique sexuality based on openness, exuberance, and inter-species collaboration.

The workshop will host two collective gardening activities in collaboration with Cranbrook Community Food Garden. A joint plant-potting will take place at the gallery (first day) and a communal gardening action will be held at the Garden (second day).