Back to Earth x WePresent: Groundwork
A collaboration between Serpentine and WePresent, featuring five features on artists working on Back to Earth projects. With Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen, Vivienne Westwood, Himali Singh Soin, Karrabing Film Collective and Tabita Rezaire.
January-June 2021
As part of the project, WePresent is matching readers’ donations to artists’ selected charities or non-profit projects.
“It’s about coming and talking to the trees for some time.”
Artist, yogi and doula, Tabita Rezaire talks about AMAKABA, a vision for a healing centre in the forest of French Guiana, focused on the arts & sciences of Earth, Body and Sky. Read the feature here, and donate to AMAKABA via this link.
“An Art Residency for Ancestors.”
Karrabing Film Collective discuss their practice and their new zombie movie, The Family, commissioned as part of Serpentine’s Back to Earth project. Read the feature here, and donate to Karrabing Indigenous Corporation via this link.
“This relationship of toxicity…”
Artist Himali Singh Soin discusses static range, a project about love, healing and radioactive toxicity in Nanda Devi, part of Serpentine’s Back to Earth. Read the feature here, and donate to the NGO Live to Love via this link.
SWITCH to green energy!
Designer Vivienne Westwood invites readers to switch to green energy, as her contribution to the Serpentine’s Back to Earth initiative. Read her WePresent feature here, and donate to the not-for-profit organisation Cool Earth via this link.
The deep sea, the octopus and the cosmic trance…