The Clearing Part I

Nottingham based artist John Newling will be collecting and copying key documents relating to the different history of spaces adjacent to the River Trent and the industrial wastelands of Nottingham which have an emphasis on changing values and shifting architectural or ground use. This collection of documents will be shredded and transformed into soil.  Using a laboratory provided by Bio City, the artist will then conduct a number of experiments. In this first phase of the project the laboratory will house a hydroponics system that endeavours to grow Beech trees. 

Newling hopes to open up the ‘historic situation’ of material culture, evolving his project through a series of vital conversations between nature, environment and society.
 

Times: Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays 10am – 4pm
This event is free

'The clearing is any space that encourages the speculation and questioning that can connect us to the other entities that define our human-ness. Nowadays our clearings are not limited to the forest. The contemporary clearing is, in its function, the same as our ancestors but it differs in the multiplicity of places that these spaces can occur…’

From 'My Garden, Being Human in the Anthropocene era. ' An essay by John Newling.

John Newling will be giving a talk at Bio City on Wednesday 16th September.

*Image taken from The Noah Laboratory installation at The Collection, Lincoln, 2009

To book a tour of the laboratory please call the Hinterland bookings line on 07914 504660 or email bookings@hinterlandprojects.com

Part II of The Clearing will occur in 2010.