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 Intervention: Akira Takaishi 

6:00–7:00pm Talk: Curator Annie Jael Kwan with Akira Takaishi, Nick Murray and Forms of Circulation (Paul Stewart and Sarah Perks).

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 Listening Trees: Sound Ecologies, a workshop led by Forms of Circulations

4:30–5:30 pm Intervention: 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)

2:30–4:30 pm Border rituals: leaking bodies, homes, and transnational collaborations: Panel discussion and screening with performingborders

4:30–6:30 pm Slumber for survival with Goddess Nidra: Performance lecture & workshop with Lynn Lu

Return to Dreamphone by Nick Murray, Place Far Away from Anyone or Anywhere: Stone Mazes by Akira Takaishi, and Forms of Circulation #1 by Forms of Circulation 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