The poetry of hosting
‘On the Wolf’s Trail’ – Session 10
October 29th – 7pm
‘On the Wolf’s Trail’ is a Research Program curated by Margarida Mendes.
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Independent curator Pujita Guha will talk about Hosting Lands reflecting upon different potentials and challenges of curating a slow research driven curatorial project.
Hosting Lands is a slow-growing, decentralized curatorial project, unfolding around land, the relationship between host and guest, the hyper-local, regional, and global. The project primarily works with, six community driven projects throughout Denmark and engages local and international artists, activists and communities. Beyond standard exhibition making, the project regularly work with artists, farmers, activists, and traditional knowledge-holders to build art works and long-term infrastructural commons, including the buying and commoning of land. The talk will discuss the frictions and impossibilities of thinking though hosting politics, land rights, care and commoning. It will introduce some of the questions, challenges and tools which Guha and her colleagues are engaged with when trying to institute otherwise.
Pujita Guha is an artist, curator, and academic. Her work hovers around questions of environment, media and aesthetics, and social justice.
She is currently a doctoral candidate at the Film and Media Studies department at University of California Santa Barbara. Her dissertation Forested Media looks at how indigenous communities work, and live, with media and artistic practices to express their knowledge and experiences of forests. And how they imagine ethical futures and forge relations with other species amidst it. Between 2018-2023, she co-founded and co-organized Forest Curriculum, a curatorial and artistic platform to engage in questions of forests and knowledge formation, in south and southeast Asia. Now, she is the co-curator for Hosting Lands, an experimental exhibition project on questions of land, access and belonging, primarily situated in Denmark.
‘On the Wolf’s Trail’ Research program curated and mentored by Margarida Mendes
“On the Wolf’s Trail” is a programme of sensory practices and lectures focused on decolonial ecology and restorative justice that explores pedagogical formats to debate forms of collective repair, restoration, resilience, and healing. Along four years, sessions will be led by practitioners from the fields of arts, environmental humanities, and post-colonial studies, and embrace topics such as mutualism and reciprocity, working towards the repair ancestral relations.
