Art Safiental
In June 2018, A Hole in the Alps, opened as part of Art Safiental Bienniale of Land and Environmental Art in the Safiental valley, Switzerland.
In July 2018 Dig Collective was one of the artists taking part in the Art Safiental Biennale of Land and Environmental Art, alongside working on the 2018 edition of the Land Art Academy.
15 international artists and collectives were invited to create temporary works in dialogue with landscape and nature throughout the Safien Valley from Versam, at the entrance of the valley, to Tenna and Safien in the middle of the valley and Thalkirch and Turrahus, at the end of the valley.
Dig Collective partnered with the local owner of the old Alpdorf Sennerei (an abandoned dairy) in the centre of the village of Tenna whose plan is to convert it into a hospice for terminal care patients. Within the ground of the dairy we dug the Hole in the Alps and displayed the earth as a Land Holding inside the old buidling awaiting its next use. The Hole remained open for the 3 months of the Art Safiental 2018, hosting a variety of events until the closing ceremony and burial of the hole on the last weekend of October 2018.
Future Spaces
On the 17th of June 2017, DIG spoke at the opening of the new Tate Modern about alternative methods of presenting art e.g., digging a hole in the ground and showing it there. To learn more about the advantages of creating your own space, see here: http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/talk-and-lecture/new-tate-modern-opening-weekend/future-spaces @tatecollectives
HOARDING
HOARDING:A fiction of accelerated urban development in four acts
A new installation by DIG COLLECTIVE (William Bock, Sophie Mason, Alberto Duman and Mark Morgan) will be created over a four day residency at PEER Gallery as part of ‘REAL ESTATES’.
DIG Collective will ‘evict’ and board up PEER Gallery for the duration of the residency, its frontage becoming the backdrop for an accumulation of layered developers’ propaganda, occupation, reappropriation and natural forces, all emerging over the period of four days.
Out on the pavement, the artists become narrators of a story of precariousness and infinite uncertainty where time precipitates into an shambolic sped-up cycle of making and unmaking, settling and uprooting. These actions allude to the increasing speed of temporality in contemporary urban spaces, and the people caught up in between.
Only a window cut into this ever-changing surface, reveals a rabbit-hole through to a different logic of time.
DIG COLLECTIVE came together in 2014 to interrogate demolition and redevelopment, ritual and nature in Hackney Central. Their project, HOLE STORY, was awarded The ArtLicks Workweek Prize for best Artist led Space in the ArtLicks Weekend programme last year.
Dates
The DIG Collective Installation will continually change over the four day residency so visitors are encouraged to visit more than once to witness its evolution between 11 March – 14 March 2015 12-6pm
Public View (Housewarming/Leaving party): Thursday 12th March, 6-8pm
Events:Wednesday 11 March
Talk with Q&A 6 – 8pm
David Madden, Lisa McKenzie and Tom Gan
Thursday 12 March
Public View (Housewarming/Leaving party) 6 – 8pm Friday 13 March
Film Screening 6 – 8pm UTOPIA LONDON by Tom Cordell, with Kate Macintosh Saturday 14 March
Homeworks Talk with Q&A 3 – 5pm
Paul Watt, Melissa Butcher and Jon Fitzmaurice
Location
PEER Gallery
97 & 99 HOXTON STREET LONDON N1 6QL UK
More Info
http://real-estates.info/programme
www.peeruk.org/current