Join artist and cultural geographer Rob St John at Tate Exchange and contribute to the creation of a cairn to mark the newly built Switch House; applying clay tiles with lichen and moss paints to make your mark upon this collaborative sculpture.
Once the installation period is over, the whole structure will then be transported to Hooke Park woodland in Dorset, where in collaboration with the Architectural Association and Common Ground charity, it will be made freely accessible to visitors and documented for years to come. Over months and years, it is likely that the spores and seeds ‘painted’ onto the cairn materials will germinate and grow; to emerge, pattern and even destroy the structure we create together.
Follow the project online: emergentlandscapes.co.uk
Tate Exchange Switch House, Level 5
Dates:
9–10 December 2016 at 12.00–18.00
11 December 2016 at 12.00–16.00
About Rob St John
Rob St John is an artist and cultural geographer from East Lancashire. His interdisciplinary practice often involves sound work, ecologically altered film photography, landscape writing and collaboration between art and science. St John’s recent projects include Concrete Antenna, 2016, Surface Tension, 2015 and Water of Life, 2013. He is currently working on long-term fieldwork to document the return of a former military island on the Finnish Archipelago.