Dirty-Hands Lab with Terravibe

Venue: Weisse Terrasse, Löwenbräukunst 1.Floor

During the final weekend of the exhibition Disobedience Archive (Canopy for Broken Time), we invite you to join the eco-feminist collective Terravibe for a participatory workshop that brings soil into focus. Both literally and metaphorically, soils are the common ground upon which our lives and communities are built. In this last Canopy Session, we explore their vital role. We will work with soil collected from selected construction sites in the museum's neighbourhood to create one of Terravibe’s so-called Zoilhills. These soil art installations lift layers of soil, usually hidden below our feet, into our eyesight and attention.

The workshop is conceived in response to the exhibition's chapter Radical Ecologies which advocates for the 're-enchantment of the world' by recovering ecological and cultural knowledge marginalised by capitalism. Expanding on Terravibe's work with soils as a hyper-local, stable medium, the workshop focuses on collective doing while fostering an exchange about how the environment around us sustains our lives and well-being. By building a Zoilhill together, we create an archive that, over the coming months, will change and transform, just as the Disobedience Archive itself does, paying tribute to its dynamic, unfixed nature.

Terravibe: Flüstern aus der Erde is an eco-feminist collective exploring relationships between land, voice, and resistance. As a self-declared dirty-hands lab, it works to regenerate our soil heritages and cultures through art, play and experimentation. The post-disciplinary collective engages with soils as our common ground and medium to enter cross- generational, cross-sectural, intercultural reconciliation work. Terravibe is based in Zurich and consists of artist Alisha Dutt Islam, designer Nora Gailer and geographer Christa Herrmann.

@terravibe.ch

• Language: in English and German
• The workshop takes place outside
• Number of participants: Maximum 4 people per slot
• Free event

To register for this workshop, please send an email (Up to 3 days before the workshop) to pauline.herrmann@mgb.ch and sign up for one of the following slots. Capacity is limited:

• 2–3 pm
• 3–4 pm
• 4–5 pm
• 5–6 pm

The Canopy Sessions are a series of talks with actors from art, culture, science and activism in the Shamiana meeting space, an open textile structure in the exhibition Disobedience Archive (Canopy for Broken Time) – In Dialogue with Raqs Media Collective. Here, archives can be experienced as living spaces for storytelling, remembrance and the transmission of knowledge. In addition to talks and readings, the sessions also include practices from our everyday lives that show how deeply knowledge is stored in ourbodies. Each session takes up the chapters of the exhibition and asks how shared vulnerability can lead to new forms of attention, relationship and solidarity.

Awareness: This workshop is a space for collective doing, reflection and respectful exchange. The audience is encouraged to participate (your hands will get dirty!) and invited to respond attentively and thoughtfully to the conversations. Everyone present is responsible for treating each other with respect. Together, we contribute to ensuring that this space remains safe, mindful and appreciative.