Fourthland Information

Their social practice uses objects, performance, ritual and storytelling to facilitate encounters with people and communities, to draw marginalised knowledge into the foreground and explore forgotten modes of social and environmental consciousness. Fourthland is a concept and approach to working in 'collective practice' that is held by an ever-growing network of people. The practice grows like streams, honouring the feminine principle and alternative societies. The work creates a shared 'landing-place' that forms new myths about land and people - bringing unconventional groups together to create unexpected things. We are sculptors, makers and performers, and believe that every individual can contribute to works of art. We allow our process-based research to unfold in a way that activates innate and authentic creativity, an approach that has the power to enchant and reposition forms of kinship whilst challenging modes of exchange and display. These process-based research methods include creating Interruptions and Workshops that prompt deep playfulness and curiosity to unearth the potential of what we call 'Handheld Knowledge'; a portal to both old and new knowings. These methods are inspired by diverse cultures and the village-scale and often utilise repetitive methods that reposition forgotten craft processes and acts of domestic labor. The Exhibitions and Performancesthat emerge from this take on multi layered networks and re-enactments with a series of Documentsas a trace of the experience. We are dedicated to learning through making and moving the body and voice, crafting a slow-time-space that allows the work to unfold organically, bringing into these excavations, process based psychology, yogic practice and elements of psychoanalysis. The practice has been cultivated through 10 years of working with Land and People on The Wenlock Barn Estate in London and ongoing national and international collaborations with scientists, architects, filmmakers, psychologists, anthropologists, teachers and researchers ...