Hosting Lands is a slow-growing, decentral exhibition movement unfolding around land, the relationship between host and guest, and the link between the hyper-local and the global. Over the course of three years, the exhibition will move between six locations throughout Denmark and engage local and international artists, activists and communities. Hosting Lands explores how we can steward and care for land differently through legal commoning of conventional farmlands and by working in collective and regenerative site-responsive manners. Hosting Lands orients itself towards futures beyond the exhibition movement itself by offering possibilities to inhabit artistic spaces as architecture of the everyday and creating lasting change in the landscapes and the worlds at stake.
Ida Bencke is a curator and co-founder of the Laboratory of Aesthetics and Ecology. LABAE is a platform for planetary becomings. They work with the embodied, theoretical and political implications of global, but unequally distributed environmental breakdown in response to multispecies worlds in urgent need of regeneration and care. Bencke’s curatorial practice includes experimental exhibition formats and interdisciplinary methods within a speculative feminist aesthetics. Her research interests include radical practices of mourning and pleasure, more-than-human affect, and revolutionary experiments on co-habitation, collectively and regenerative alliances. She is currently a research fellow at the University of Copenhagen as part of the research project “OIKOS. A Cultural Analysis of Care and Crisis in the 21st Century”.
*The lecture will be held in English.
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