FourthLand
Artists weaving new myths of land and people
T H E H I V E
O U R P L A C E O N E A R T H
A place to gather the tools needed for becoming and belonging - both to ourselves and to each other, in service of meaningful todays and viable tomorrows.
July 2nd - 4th, join us for a three-day arts festival at The Quadrangle, nestled within the beautiful Kent countryside, to explore how authentic individual expression can become pollen for the earth.
After the culmination of our 18 months course 'The Vessel of Pollinators, we are curating and bringing together 16 international artists collaborating as The Wild Medicine Circus. Together bringing The Hive - Our Place on Earth as a living, evolving experience in service to our innate aliveness, reconnection and healing. Allowing the symbol of the bee to inspire notions of collectivity and our role as change-makers to pollinate and spread the energy of hope.
The festival will include an installation of The Hive, formed through the principles of sacred geometry, and crafted with elemental materials which will be animated by performance, projection and sound, inviting a series of moments for reflection on what it means to be human.
We gather together to cultivate exchanges of knowledge, imagination, empowerment and connection. Awakening deeper relationships with the earth, with creative expression, and with more sustainable ways of being - through art, community, and friendship. We gather with The Hive to explore:
how to love, how to care, how to grieve, how to feel joy, how to heal,
how to come back home to our nature
"The Wild Medicine we are looking for, is one where 'difference' is not the problem, but precisely the solution "
Produced and curated by
Fourthland, Isik Sayarer and Eva Knutsdotter
in collaboration with 16 international artists:
The Wild Medicine Circus
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Patricia Brien
Magi Winmill-Hermann
Sarah Dark
Jessica Eichman
Annabie Daly
Cat Rogers
Aga Tamiola.
Clare Carr-Saunders
Serazer Pekerman
The Golden thread
Maria Juliana Byck
Telma Leamaro Antunes
Kirsty Whiten
Eliana Otta
Vasiliki Sifostratoudaki
Thalia Dimitropoulou
The Wild Medicine circus will offer daily workshops in movement, storytelling and song, creating restorative spaces for dialogue and intimacy with the landscape. Practices and offerings will cultivate moments of reflection and collective renewal, cultivating collective care for the land and each other. These happenings will organically weave as the work of the hive, creating an evergrowing community and new stories of togetherness.
SYMBOLISM AND HEALING
The exhibition will share a series of personal and collective works presenting individual symbology and alchemical explorations as an antidote to times of crisis, ecological breakdown and unseeing. These multimedia pieces include, paintings, objects and archetypal cards. Animating the HIVE and surrounding countryside alongside.
A small collection will also be available for sale.
