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Soil-Searching: Making Kin with Urban Soils
Soil-Searching is an installation that emerges from the artist’s interdisciplinary research engagements with the urban soils and ruderal ecologies of her community. This collection of works aims to address soils as lively, creative, complex, ecological, socio-political, and life-sustaining webs of multispecies assemblages.
Soil-searching is a map, a legend, a shrine, an atlas, a speculative diagram, an archive, and an ode to soils’ entangled wisdoms, to the ways they make a mess of aliveness, revealing different shapes and forms of liveliness.
Sara Hodaie is an artist and citizen scientist. Her work explores interdisciplinary modes of knowing, caring for, and becoming with multispecies worlds in times defined by anthropogenic devastation. Sara’s creative and research practices center around the study of urban soils. She aims to critically examine the knowledge politics and systems that shape our relationships to soil, and explore different modes of taking soilcare rooted in socio-ecological justice. Sara’s work is grounded in the belief that cultivating imaginative, actionable, critical, and emergent soil knowledges enables multispecies ecologies of care and flourishing that rupture dominant modes of relating to land and earth as sites of dumping and extraction. Sara conceptualizes her art-making as a practice of place-making. Engaging with the ecologies of urban public space through rituals of collecting waste, composting, foraging, and attuning to more-than-human scales, stories, and assemblages are central to her creative practice.
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