Like Spores, We Spread
About the event
A two-day outdoor gathering exploring ecological and relational practices
This two-day event foregrounds artistic practices taking place outdoors. It expands on Tate Modern’s exhibitions and displays of Ana Mendieta, Richard Long and Britto Arts Trust. Like Spores, We Spread centres situated relations with land and memory, taking into account notions of reciprocity and responsibility for what surrounds us and that we are a part of.With invited artists and contributors, we explore how living environments become hosts for works that cannot be confined by gallery walls. Rather than approaching the outdoors as a neutral space, the event considers territory as a relational field shaped by displacement, ecological entanglements and colonial legacies.Like Spores, We Spread invites communal pedagogical experiments of reading, walking and eating together in the spirit of an outdoor summer school. The event thinks back to 1960-70s historical precedents; practices that ventured out and are now germinating through collective forms of transmission, movement, listening and shared learning.Organised by Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational in partnership with Hyundai Motor; in collaboration with the Laboratoire d’art et de recherche décoloniaux (LabARD), Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), with the support of the Canada Research Chair in Decolonial Artistic Practices and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Like Spores, We Spread is supported by Samdani Art Foundation and Fluxus Art Projects.
