{"id":4600,"date":"2025-10-05T14:16:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T14:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/?p=4600"},"modified":"2025-11-10T18:28:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T18:28:38","slug":"soil-of-ecological-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/thoughts\/soil-of-ecological-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Soil of Ecological Union"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On the Eurostar back to to the UK after spending a few days in Oberhausen Germany for the Soils of Ecological Union Symposium. Over the last few months, invited by ace Ukrainian artists-curators Natalia Matsenko @uncertainata<\/a> and Yuri Yefanov @yuri_yefanov<\/a>, we have engaged in fruitful online exchanges with Lisa Biletska @lisabetska<\/a>, Jana Kerima @janakerima__<\/a>, Lex Ruitten @lex.ruetten_<\/a>, Lina Kusaite @linakusaite8<\/a>, Vite Joksaite @vitejoksch<\/a>, Margo Zalite @margo_zalite<\/a> on the topic of soil and art.<\/p>\n

Starting with soil and the utopian ideas around it, we moved on to discuss ecology and technology, non-human life, community awareness, urban nature, gardens and forests, art and activism, inevitability, optimism and the apocalyptic mindset.<\/p>\n

The project concluded when we all met in real life for the symposium on October 2nd at the Unterhaus gallery @unterhaus.ob kitev<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The whole operation was managed by Kitev @kitev.de<\/a>. Kitev (Kunst Im Turm ev) is a well established poly-function community art centre located in the former water tower of the central station in Oberhausen. It features residency spaces, offices, a cafe\/kitchen\/workshop area and the shared Unterhaus gallery nearby where we had the symposium.<\/p>\n

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During my stay artist in residence Margo Zalite ran a bamboo architecture workshop, a synthesizer community workshops and a public conversation on Art of the Palliative Turn, a dark notion developed by artist Olav Westphalen.<\/p>\n

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Kitev also hosts the Refugee Kitchen ran by a team of refugee women who cook and serve delicious meals to the public several times a week, reversing the image of the refugee queueing for food at a humanitarian facility. Also robotic workshops for children on Fridays.<\/p>\n

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All in all a great venue with excellent hospitality, many thanks @vitejoksch for hosting us :>))<\/p>\n

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  On the Eurostar back to to the UK after spending a few days in Oberhausen Germany for the Soils of Ecological Union Symposium. Over the last few months, invited by ace Ukrainian artists-curators Natalia Matsenko @uncertainata and Yuri Yefanov @yuri_yefanov, we have engaged in fruitful online exchanges with Lisa Biletska @lisabetska, Jana Kerima @janakerima__, Lex Ruitten @lex.ruetten_, Lina Kusaite<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4600"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4672,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600\/revisions\/4672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}