Ackroyd & Harvey - Germinating history (Remember the Future in conversation)

Artists Ackroyd & Harvey were joined by Zena Edwards, Sarah Edwards and Raffael Jovine to discuss the climate crisis and their residency at Orleans House Gallery on 8 July 2021. This conversation was hosted on Zoom.

“What if we could fashion a restoration plan that grew from multiple meanings of land?  Land as sustainer.  Land as identity.  Land as grocery store and pharmacy.  Land as connection to ancestors.  Land as moral obligation. Land as sacred.  Land as self.”  Robin Wall-Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 2013

Inspired by Robin Wall-Kimmerer’s exquisitely framed question, artists Ackroyd & Harvey will be in conversation with invited guests Sarah Edwards, Zena Edwards and Raffael Jovine to ask where do we begin?  Where and how do we plant seeds of renewal and whose voice and vision will be heard and shared in the process of restoring land and relationship to land?  Biocultural or reciprocal restoration is an emerging exemplar of a new holistic approach, rooted in indigenous legacy that reveals land as a community of more-than-human species to whom humans have a responsibility.  How may we draw on cultural imaginings to renew and revitalise and act on behalf of life to bring about transformation?