The history of our Earth is written in the rocks and sediment in the landscape and which have been used for human culture. From the distinctive white Istrian stone and pink marble used to build the Doges Palace in Venice, to ancient organisms, plants and invertebrates preserved as fossils in sedimentary rock. Rocks are the Earth’s timekeepers. Their history is the witness and record of all activities on our Planet.
With Earth time stretching back billions of years, and one grain of sand with which we use to make glass or buildings having taken up to millions of years to form starting from erosion from the Alps, is what we are seeing with climate change partly a clash of experiencing and understanding time? The Earth’s perspective which privileges deep time versus human perspective which rewards speed and necessity? How can we make a re-connection with our Planet – including with its geology and vital sediments, such as dust and sand? And what can we learn from fossils, their evolution and adaptation, and the ancient beings which once lived here?
Join two leading environmental scientists from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice to be inspired to create a work which explores new notions of time and reconnection with our Earth.
Earth Water Sky environmental science and arts residency programme are looking for an artist from any discipline who is truly inspired by thinking about time and connecting the geology of our Earth to humankind. The artist must also enjoy the research process as well as public engagement and be able to create imaginative, extraordinary new work which captures the public’s attention, senses, minds and hearts.
The artist has a set fee for two months of 5000 Euros per month. In addition all travel, accommodation and subsistence are covered for that period on a fixed budget.
At the end of the residency, the artist will be invited to bid for a 26,000 Euro production budget to make an artwork inspired by their research into wind and their interactions. This final work and the results will be exhibited during the Venice Biennale period.