Hosting Lands | Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology (Copenhagen) ~ Partner since 2024
is a slow-growing, decentral exhibition movement unfolding around land, the relationship between host and guest, and the link between the hyper-local and the global.
Over the course of four years, the exhibition (2023 -2026) will move between four locations throughout Denmark and engage local and international artists, activists and communities.
Hosting Lands explores how we can steward and care for land differently through legal commoning of conventional farmlands and by working in collective and regenerative site-responsive manners.
Hosting Lands orients itself towards futures beyond the exhibition movement itself by offering possibilities to inhabit artistic spaces as architecture of the everyday and creating lasting change in the landscapes and the worlds at stake. https://hostinglands.com/
Hosting Lands is held by Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology, a self-organized curatorial platform for experimental exhibition and publishing makings situated in Denmark founded in an urge of cultivating practices of soft resistance. They are committed to intersectional ecologies of care, to the anticapitalist and decolonial struggles for planetary survival and social justice. They work with the embodied, theoretical and political implications of global, but unequally distributed environmental breakdown in response to multispecies worlds in urgent need of regeneration and care.
The Laboratory facilitates a myriad of multidisciplinary events, exhibitions, workshops and symposia across landscapes, disciplines, contexts and histories spanning from rural spaces, festival sites, ocean shores, boats, academic- and exhibition spaces and more. Their methods are experimental and flow through and across genres, aiming for long durational, cross-pollinating knowledge productions in conversation with many partners. https://www.labae.org
Hosting Lands@DAI:
2025-2026 COOP study group ~ Cemeterial Ecologies, Grieving and Zombie Time
2024-2025 COOP study group ~ Trespass, Loopholes, Action Design