Composing knowledge for revived land
In this lecture we will be looking at the different disciplines and angles that the environmental collaborative art project Inland is combining in theory and practice, to apply eco-social interventions, especially in rural areas. INLAND is a collaborative agency founded by Fernando García-Dory that started in 2009 to provide a platform for diverse actors engaged in agricultural, social, and cultural production. During its first stage (2010 – 2013) and taking Spain as an initial case study, INLAND was engaged with artistic production in twenty-two villages across the country, nationwide exhibitions and presentations, and an international conference. This was followed by a period of reflection and evaluation, launching study groups on art and ecology, and a series of publications. Today INLAND functions as a collective focused on land-based collaborations and economies, and communities-of-practice as a substrate for post-contemporary art and cultural forms.
Fernando García-Dory`s work engages the relationship between culture and nature, as manifested in multiple contexts, from landscape and the rural to desires and expectations in relation to identity, crisis, utopia, and social change. Interested in the harmonic complexity of biological forms and processes, his work addresses connections and cooperation, from microorganisms to social systems, and from traditional art languages drawing to collaborative agroecological projects and actions. He studied Fine Arts and Rural Sociology and is preparing his PhD in Art and Agroecology.