People stroke the curve of the earth here
the reason for rounded circles lives here
By the collective fuvu_fürunsvonuns
Artists: Ava Binta Giallo, Ivie Isibor, Frida Robles
Exhibition Period: September 6th – October 2nd, VBKÖ
Opening: September 5th, 2024, 18:00h
Meeting point: VBKÖ, Maysedergasse 2/28, 4. floor (elevator available), 1010 Vienna
Poetry reading ceremony in Burggarten, we will walk to the park together from VBKÖ and back.
People Stroke the Curve of the Earth Here
The Reason for Rounded Circles Lives Here
The exhibition deals with remembering the shapes of nature, as the bodies that might feel spectral but we can still call ours. “People stroke the curve of the earth here, the reason for rounded circles lives here” is borrowed from the poem “the healers” by South African poet Khulile Nxumalo. This fragment refers to the memory of the earth, the ancestral knowledge that we still carry with us, the hums of nature that have been repressed. An inscription remains legible. To love the earth, to continue its shape and allow its fertility.
We will open the VBKÖ space to the nature that surrounds it by bringing herbs, fragments of stones, fallen branches; an open-ended gathering and installation which will grow with the participation of the visitors. We will offer activities to listen, observe, draw, think, read and meditate together.
the earth remembers
how does caring manifest itself
and how does abuse
How do we heal the land that we humans have made sick?
PROGRAM
- Opening – September 5th, 2024
18:00h
Meeting point: VBKÖ
Poetry reading ceremony in Burggarten
- Herb walk with Ivie Isibor – September 7th, 2024
14:00 – open ended
Meeting point: Tram 41, Pötzleinsdorf (end station)
Driven by curiosity, Ivie Isibor has been researching herbs and practicing gardening in order to learn from the wisdom of plants. Through carefully listening to them and the soft communication within the carework of gardening she created a new understanding of these teachers. She wants to share and open a space to come together and exchange our plant knowledge.
- Reading/listening session with Frida Robles – September 12th, 2024
17:00 – 19:00
VBKÖ, Maysedergasse 2/28, 4. floor (elevator available), 1010 Vienna
Frida Robles will also host a reading session on the theme of solitude and connection with the earth that surrounds. We will read fragments of the book “The Monkey Grammarian” by renown Mexican writer Octavio Paz. The reading will be interwoven by a collective listening of the album “Aprendiendo a hablar” (“Learning to Speak”) by Guatemalan musician Mabe Fratti.
- Tea and draw with Ava Binta Giallo – September 24th, 2024
17:00 – 19:00
VBKÖ, Maysedergasse 2/28, 4. floor (elevator available), 1010 Vienna
As a continuation of the herb walk, we will allow for the herbs to unfold themselves and liquify their wisdom in a tea to drink in community. Ava Binta Giallo invites for a soft Session of being, listening, drinking and drawing inspiration from the herbal collaborators.
- Screening with Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, presented by Frida Robles – September 28th, 2024
18:00 – 20:00
VBKÖ, Maysedergasse 2/28, 4. floor (elevator available), 1010 Vienna
The recent work of Colectivo Los Ingrávidos evokes a ritual, animistic notion of the cinematographic medium in which a choreography of natural elements and forces interact with the materiality of film and the screen. “The Nest of the Sun” forms part of a trilogy titled “Tonalli” that finds inspiration in the Mexica cosmovision to open up a field dense with rhythms, textures and colors emanating from the sun, the moon and fire.
