26/08/2026
Dirt Play: A Circle of Growth, Decay, and Return
埋泥睇，埋泥玩
2026.9.4 Fri 五
7:30 - 9:30pm
Workshop, conducted in English
工作坊，英語主講
Reservation 登記留座（link in bio)
農業、考古、建造、採礦——現代社會與土地的關係，往往帶著剝削的意味。
我們開墾土地，總以粗暴的手法從中榨取資源，因為工業體系逼使我們不斷消耗各種物資：金屬、寶石、糧食、文物，以及其他被大規模開採的資源。我們按自己的意願改造這片土地，去餵養我們親手建立的系統。我們製造出過剩的「廢棄物」，引發連鎖的效應，而整套體系卻無意減少這些傷害。
儘管坊間已有不少試圖減少破壞、甚至滋養土壤的實踐（如再生農業、低度干擾林業），但亦有人受到召喚，選擇以更為親密、童趣、且某種程度上更具靈性的方式，與自然同樂。
是次工作坊邀請了四位嘗試以另類視角與大地重新連結的實踐者。他們對框限我們生活的體系投以好奇的目光，並以微小、開放的行動介入與抗衡——擾動現有循環、使天然物料免於落入堆填區，並邀請大家一同嬉戲，重拾與「自然」的連結：去觸碰、去嗅聞、去共存。
不同領域的知識體系究竟如何看待我們腳下的土地？土壤向地景藝術家、陶藝家、生態學家以及自然建築工匠揭示了什麼？而這些認知方式又能如何啟發我們與地球建立更具互惠性的關係？
Agriculture. Archaeology. Construction. Mining. Modern society’s relationship with the land is often exploitative.
We work the land and extract from it—often brutally—because industry demands we constantly consume goods: metals, gems, food, artefacts, and other resources drawn at industrial scale. We reshape the land to our will, feeding systems we have created, generating excess “waste” and consequences the system has no incentive to reduce.
While myriad practices exist to minimise disturbance to—and even enrich—the soil (regenerative farming, low-Impact forestry, among others), others have been called to delight and play with nature on a much more intimate, whimsical, and in some ways, spiritual level.
This workshop brings together four practitioners who each seek to reconnect with the earth through alternative ways of seeing. Casting a curious eye on the systems that frame our daily lives, they intervene and push back through small, simple, open-ended acts—disrupting existing cycles, diverting materials from landfill, and inviting everyone to play alongside them: to touch, to smell, to coexist.
How do different bodies of knowledge approach the ground beneath our feet? What does soil reveal to the land artist, the ceramicist, the ecologist and the natural builder working in the field? And what might these ways of knowing teach us about a more reciprocal relationship with the earth?
