“Leaf through a series of texts that examine the fragile relationship between human beings and nature in this issue’s Document, compiled by one of literature’s most subversive voices – Chris Kraus.”
Urthworks, an Exploration – 2nd February 2020
image courtesy Ben Rivers and Kate MacGarry
£10
Urthworks, an Exploration: Ben Rivers, Mark von Schlegell and Sarah Shin with Josephine Lanyon and Tim Martin
Hosted by Gareth Evans…
HESTERCOMBE
Hestercombe Gardens
Cheddon Fitzpaine
Taunton
Somerset, UK
TA2 8LG
Mark von Schlegell, “Neuseelandschaft” — radio play (in German)
Six Seasons – von Herbst bis Sommer
Radio 1, Austria… https://oe1.orf.at/sixseasons
trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY9LI2Cvt0g
Artist Talk: Mark von Schlegell – Dreaming the Mainstream
Art Sonje, Seoul. 19 October 2019. 6 pm.
URTHWORKS
Renowned artist Ben Rivers presents Urthworks at Hestercombe Gallery, from 9 November 2019 to 9 February 2020
This exhibition brings together a trilogy of films developed by Rivers in collaboration with the American science fiction writer Mark von Schlegell …
In Slow Action (2010), Rivers’ study of the biogeographical environments of Japan, Tuvalu, Lanzarote and Somerset is combined with Schlegell’s writings of future island utopian societies. Urth (2016), is set in an extraordinary artificial research environment in Arizona, where Rivers’ images of the futuristic glass building are populated by the spoken log book of the last living woman on earth …
The NEW work Look Then Below will be premiered at Hestercombe …
