WAYS OF LANDMAKING

In this short term residency at Grey Space, The Hague, Sandipan Nath expands his repertoire of multimedia tactics through transdisciplinary collaborations. Developed in partnership with linguist and philosopher Samar Khan, and posthumanist scholar Ruth Clemens, two interconnected projects were showcased.

Cella Collective supported the two artists in the construction of a cob and clay landscape, and ran workshops on cob construction in tandem with the residency.

YEAR: 2023
PROJECT TYPE: MATERIALS,
COLLABORATORS: Samar Khan, Sandipan Nath
CONTRIBUTORS: Felix Sagar

‘Ways of Landmaking’ poses the question: What if we perceive ourselves as land, with our gestures being harvested? For centuries, the gestures of cows, farmers, and the soil have transformed landscapes into lush meadows that we are steadily ceasing to appreciate. Massive changes in our food systems will see these entities fading into history, ushering in a new chapter of “land building”. Yet our bodies, and the gestures we once used to visualize and shape our connection to the land, have largely been supplanted by technology. How can we reclaim these lost gestures? How might we discover new ones?