A place to gather the tools needed for becoming and belonging – both to ourselves and to each other, in service of meaningful todays and viable tomorrows.
At the Quadrangle, Kent UK
Rolling with the Cards A roving performance.
You arrive. We pause. A brief guided meditation holds the question: what brings you here, in this precise moment?
One card rises to meet you as your guide. Through it, your poem unfolds, or a movement, song, story, or a map only you can read. We activate your card. You receive your message. Your time here fills with its purpose.
Find what has been waiting for you.
Spellbinding — making and wearing ritual. With Mouries Collective
You settle in amongst an array of objects waiting to be joined. We sit together. With needle, thread, seeds, pebbles, thoughts, dreams, and fabric you make something to wear — a headband, a wristband, a necklace, a wearable spell you sew yourself.
The Mouries collective is offering the possibility of making something to wear to set a special mood, something that reveals your feelings often obscured behind a mask. We invite you to sew and to wear as if casting a spell: that while wearing it do and say what your hearts really wants to bring out to the world, even if for some minutes. For different moments during the day to experience how that feels, and stop wearing them if they feel over conscious or pressured somehow, it can be a dispositive for deep attention to your emotions and interactions your days here, with the Hive.
Once worn, the agreement is simple: say what your heart means. Do what your heart wants to bring into the world. Not performance. Not persona. Just what is real, for as long as you can hold it. As long as we can hold it as a collective.
Wear it for a moment or for hours.. Return to it when you are ready. The fabric remembers.
A dispositive for deep attention — to your emotions, to your encounters, to what moves beneath the surface.
Part of a three-day arts festival at The Quadrangle, nestled within the beautiful Kent countryside, to explore how authentic individual expression can become pollen for the earth.
Culminating after 18 months ‘The Vessel of Pollinators, 16 international artists collaborating as The Wild Medicine Circus. bring The Hive – Our Place on Earth as a living, evolving experience in service to our innate aliveness, reconnection and healing. Allowing the symbol of the bee to inspire notions of collectivity and our role as change-makers to pollinate and spread the energy of hope. The festival offered an installation of The Hive, formed through the principles of sacred geometry, and crafted with elemental materials which will be animated by performance, projection and sound, inviting a series of moments for reflection on what it means to be human. We gather together to cultivate exchanges of knowledge, imagination, empowerment and connection. Awakening deeper relationships with the earth, with creative expression, and with more sustainable ways of being – through art, community, and friendship. We gather with The Hive to explore: how to love, how to care, how to grieve, how to feel joy, how to heal, how to come back home to our nature
“The Wild Medicine we are looking for, is one where ‘difference’ is not the problem, but precisely the solution “
Produced and curated by
Fourthland, Isik Sayarer and Eva Knutsdotter
in collaboration with 16 international artists:
The Wild Medicine Circus
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Patricia Brien
Magi Winmill-Hermann
Sarah Dark
Jessica Eichman
Annabie Daly
Cat Rogers
Aga Tamiola.
Clare Carr-Saunders
Serazer Pekerman
The Golden thread
Maria Juliana Byck
Telma Leamaro Antunes
Kirsty Whiten
Eliana Otta
Vasiliki Sifostratoudaki
Thalia Dimitropoulou
Workshops in movement, storytelling and song, creating restorative spaces for dialogue and intimacy with the landscape. Practices and offerings will cultivate moments of reflection and collective renewal, cultivating collective care for the land and each other. These happenings will organically weave as the work of the hive, creating an evergrowing community and new stories of togetherness.
SYMBOLISM AND HEALING
The exhibition will share a series of personal and collective works presenting individual symbology and alchemical explorations as an antidote to times of crisis, ecological breakdown and unseeing. These multimedia pieces include, paintings, objects and archetypal cards. Animating the HIVE and surrounding countryside alongside.