FOURTHLAND | ABOUT

Fourthland is a practice created by artists Isik and Eva.
It is a place to delve into the mysticism of interconnectedness, poetics, object and craft, and a vessel to revisit notions of the sacred.

We create artworks, teachings and experiences as a way to connect with myth, kinship and collaboration with more than human realms. By crafting artistic tools and environments across mediums of sculpture, installation, performance, film, social -and ceremonial practice, our work offers moments to connect and explore the language of the subconscious.

Through the last 15 years of shared practice and individual enquiry we have hosted gatherings, social projects and long term courses that have led groups and communities to delve deeply into the undercurrent of what connects them to the earth and each other. Often repositioning marginalised knowledge to form new modes of social and environmental consciousness with diverse communities and cultural groups. The central pulse of our work is to craft new myths between land and people as an antidote to disillusionment and modes of separation held in modern society.

Through this work we developed ´House of the four lands, our practice led pedagogy through which we continue to offer groups and individuals guided and mythical encounters with the healing current of creativity. Guiding journeyers to the connect with the essence of themselves.

We craft stories, sound journeys, moving image works and ceremonies. These offerings are inspired by our sculptural practice that involves the crafting of objects through a range of processes with natural materials, re-positioning of traditional and nomadic skills such as felt making, skin curing, stitching, waxing and natural dying alongside laborious mending processes. These objects connect to the notion of deep time. Becoming our vessels of alchemy, prompting new ways of meeting whilst bringing us back to a place we have not quite been. We have come to call this process ' handheld knowledge', and see it as way of working with the 'cosmic domestic' in our everyday lives.

Long Term collaborators
Craig Bamford, artist, architect and craftsman
Alejandro Tarraf, director, cinematographer and photographer

Extract from our current teaching program and journey

´Vessel of Pollinators´