Workshop 4 - Saturday, October 24th

Dirtball & Multi-Species Spa Part 

Kosmologym (with Greg Stewart & Walker Tufts), 

Join us as we make a multi-species face mask and meditate on our relationships to parent material and time. Through the face mask, games and thought experiments we will present Dirtball (both as installed at Franconia Sculpture Park and hopefully to be installed next summer on Governor’s Island with Project: Soils and Swale House) and DIY Dirtball. 

Dirtball is a reimagined basketball court that frames the soil making process and highlights human’s role in it. The Dirtball court consists of an experimental decaying concrete soil re-mineralizing key, a garden and a bird house. Over the past months, in response to COVID-19, we have been working on DIY Dirtball, a suite of online/onsite games. DIY Dirtball uses a distributed homemade basketball court and what we are currently imagining as a decades long meditative card game. 

For the multi-species face mask you will need a rock or rock/concrete surface. See below for the full human/lichen/rock face mask recipe. Simple multi-species face masks can also be made with live yogurt or beer. 

• 1 pint milk

• 1 teaspoon flour

• 1 teaspoon yeast

• 1/2 teaspoon gelatin

• 1 tablespoon green algae powder

• 1 tablespoon of dried mushroom powder

• lichen flakes

More about our first Dirtball court here: https://www.kosmologym.com/dirtball.html

Kosmologym is an art and game design collective. Our games challenge players to encounter others (human/animal, plant, mineral, institution) and place human bodies in physical relationships to global systems. Kosmologym has created games for Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN, US; the Philadelphia Science Festival and Bartram’s Garden in Philadelphia, US; Art Prospect Festival 2018 in Saint Petersburg, RF;  the Kulturhavn Festival and VEGA Arts in Copenhagen, DK. We have performed our games in London and Leeds, UK; Copenhagen, Aalborg and Aarhus, DK; Philadelphia and New York City, USA.

About Soil & Workshops, Entertainment, Performances, Exhibits

The air we breath, the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the waste we produce or reuse, the water we use to survive: As we explore the living fabric of health; soils as the supporters and connectors of our fundamental living needs, we can make some deeper connections to some of the facets of our lifestyles that are impacted by the choices we make with our soils resources, and the impacts we have on our environment, both good and bad. 

To make up for not being able to host our outdoor art and soils festival, tour, and expo, we are incorporating interactive workshops, entertainment, performances, and exhibits that will be intertwined into the format of symposium. Artists, scientists, urban farmers, educators, landscape architects, architects, and practitioners from diverse sectors will share their explorations, engage the public with demonstrations or interactive activities, and provoke and probe new ideas.