Erin Manning: 100 Acres
The first solo exhibition of Canadian cultural theorist, political philosopher and artist, Erin Manning, opens at the Richard Saltoun Gallery. Manning’s practice is predominantly textile-based and relationally-oriented, often participatory, with a strong pedagogical interest.
100 Acres is a site-specific installation encompassing the entire gallery, composed of two twenty-five yard cuts of monks cloth that are sewn, embroidered, knotted and tufted. In a refusal of distantism - the belief that the world is given to us in the establishing shot of overview - the work recalls the encounter of the forest as lived through the 3Ecologies Project (3E). 3E engages in para-pedagogies of resistance, fostering techniques for other ways of living and learning at the intersection of the « three ecologies » (social, conceptual, and environmental). 3E’s aim is to give the land back to itself; purchasing it, taking it out of the property market, and preserving it in perpetuity within an extended ecology of stewardship, experimentation and learning.The forest serves as a speculative garden, an incitement for other ways of touching existence. Deeply engaged with the ProTactile movement of the DeafBlind community, the project asks how else the world calls us to sense and sensing beyond distantism.
100 Acres continues the project by other means, composing in accompaniment to the relational fields of the forest, giving them an echo in the gallery. Textures of sense generate choreographies relaying the form and force of more-than-human encounter. The ethos is of participation, beyond art as object. Drafted by the artist, the protocol invites audience participation in the project of giving the forest back to itself. The cut reveals the fragility of its weave. The Protocol guides negotiation of the cut and minor repair of the weave:
Protocol - 100 Acres
1. Negotiate a cut with the artist for extraction (120 cm x 150 cm, £2000)
2. Coordinate a minor repair of the incision
3. Resituate the piece in a new milieu
All funds will go toward the purchase of additional land for the 3Ecologies Project (3ecologies.org). Purchased land will be taken out of the property market and placed in collective stewardship in perpetuity.
PROJECT
Give the land back to itself.
THE 3 ECOLOGIES
Of subjectivity (in its nascent state)
Of the social (in a mutant state)
Of the environment (at the point it can be reinvented)
100 Acres is on show at Richard Saltoun Gallery until 22 June 2024.
Find out more and plan your visit:
www.richardsaltoun.com/exhibitions/125-erin-manning-100-acres
100 Acres is a site-specific installation encompassing the entire gallery, composed of two twenty-five yard cuts of monks cloth that are sewn, embroidered, knotted and tufted. In a refusal of distantism - the belief that the world is given to us in the establishing shot of overview - the work recalls the encounter of the forest as lived through the 3Ecologies Project (3E). 3E engages in para-pedagogies of resistance, fostering techniques for other ways of living and learning at the intersection of the « three ecologies » (social, conceptual, and environmental). 3E’s aim is to give the land back to itself; purchasing it, taking it out of the property market, and preserving it in perpetuity within an extended ecology of stewardship, experimentation and learning.The forest serves as a speculative garden, an incitement for other ways of touching existence. Deeply engaged with the ProTactile movement of the DeafBlind community, the project asks how else the world calls us to sense and sensing beyond distantism.
100 Acres continues the project by other means, composing in accompaniment to the relational fields of the forest, giving them an echo in the gallery. Textures of sense generate choreographies relaying the form and force of more-than-human encounter. The ethos is of participation, beyond art as object. Drafted by the artist, the protocol invites audience participation in the project of giving the forest back to itself. The cut reveals the fragility of its weave. The Protocol guides negotiation of the cut and minor repair of the weave:
Protocol - 100 Acres
1. Negotiate a cut with the artist for extraction (120 cm x 150 cm, £2000)
2. Coordinate a minor repair of the incision
3. Resituate the piece in a new milieu
All funds will go toward the purchase of additional land for the 3Ecologies Project (3ecologies.org). Purchased land will be taken out of the property market and placed in collective stewardship in perpetuity.
PROJECT
Give the land back to itself.
THE 3 ECOLOGIES
Of subjectivity (in its nascent state)
Of the social (in a mutant state)
Of the environment (at the point it can be reinvented)
100 Acres is on show at Richard Saltoun Gallery until 22 June 2024.
Find out more and plan your visit:
www.richardsaltoun.com/exhibitions/125-erin-manning-100-acres