Orchard visit, 11am – 12pm
The Meadows, Huntly
Public talk, 7:30 –9pm
Scottish Sculpture Workshop, 1 Main Street, Lumsden
Join curator Borbála Soós for a Public Talk in the form of a journey, exploring relationships between people, places and materials. Through stories, video, sound and artworks, she invites us to travel through a series of passageways; from a spiral staircase inside a shell, to an underwater forest resembling the rewilded hills in the Cairngorms National Park, and other parallel realities on the way.
A group visit to the Huntly Community Orchard will take place in the morning prior to the Public Talk in the evening. Meet at the orchard.1
Borbála Soós is based in London. She has an independent curatorial, writing and teaching practice and is an active advocate, participant and organiser of artistic, curatorial and ecological research. She is currently a Research Associate at CCA Derry-Londonderry; and is leading a Peer Forum around ecologies of rewilding in collaboration with Artquest and the Horniman Museum and Gardens, London. Borbála’s recent research focuses on the development of structures found in nature and explores how these relate to social organisation. Her curatorial practice responds to, disrupts and enriches environmental thinking and related social and political urgencies.
These events are free of charge and are followed by simple meal and discussion in the SSW Communities Room. Everyone is welcome and no booking is required, but if coming in larger numbers please notify us ahead of the event: jenny@ssw.org.uk/ (+44) 01464 861372.
Please contact us if we can support you to access these events in any way. Find information on disabled access at SSW here.
SSW’s Public Talk series 2020 is programmed in collaboration with our project Town is the Garden.
1. The existing orchard is made up of two separate groups of fruit trees planted by artist Norma Hunter, through her Bite on the Side project, and Networks of Wellbeing
