BOOK NOW: 24–26 July EARTH Ritual at Barham Park

Bones, stones, and calling the four elements

The Brent Biennial EARTH Ritual is a programme engaging with the element of earth. 

A planet amidst galaxies, and yet a world within a single grain. A home amidst multiple ecologies. Our lands are contoured with the scars of war, territoriality and extractivism. The earth holds and archives. From the earth we came and will learn to return to rest. 

The Earth Ritual gathers artists and communities at ACAVA studios and Barham Park to remember and dream of how our histories and stories are all traced across the land, of the possibilities of new human and more-than-human cosmologies, in communal rest and recuperation.

The programme of activities include an exhibition, sculptural interventions, curatorial and artist talks, a field walk, and a yoga nidra performance workshop.

Events Programme   

Thursday 24 July 

4:00–5:00pm Performance: Akira Takaishi 

6:00–7:00pm Talk: Artists Akira Takaishi and Nick Murray in conversation with Brent Biennial 2025 curator Annie Jael Kwan

Friday 25 July 

11:00am–1:00 pm ACAVA Talks: Playing it by ear, with Dr Darren Chetty, creating artist teacher collaborations  INFO AND BOOKING

2:00–4:00 pm Screening and Conversation with Forms of Circulation 

4:30–5:30 pm Performance : Akira Takaishi 

Saturday 26 July

11:30am–1:00 pm walking in your footsteps with Alisa Oleva

1:00–1:45pm Lunch Break (Visitors are encouraged to bring a packed picnic lunch that could be enjoyed in Barham Park)

1:45–2:30 pm Curator tour with Annie Jael Kwan and artists Akira Takaishi and Nick Murray

2:30–4:30 pm Panel discussion and screening with performing borders

4:30–6:30 pm Performance lecture & workshop with Lynn Lu 

Return to Dreamphone by Nick Murray and Place Far Away from Anyone or Anywhere by Akira Takaishi will be on view daily between 25 July–1 August 11:00am –6:00 pm.

On the 24 July the ACAVA galleries will be open between 2:00–8:00 pm. 

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Brent Biennial 25: EARTH Ritual

Happening 24–26 July the Brent Biennial EARTH Ritual is a three-day programme engaging with the element of EARTH. Artworks will be installed and on view in the park and at ACAVA until August 1st