Big Ideas in Art + Culture: FASTWÜRMS

Big Ideas Lecture: FASTWÜRMS

Saturday, September 28, 2024
1:00 – 3:00pm | Free
Abraham Erb’s Grist Mill, Waterloo Park
Waterloo, Ontario

Musagetes and CAFKA are pleased to present the next Big Ideas in Art and Culture lecture featuring Canadian icon, FASTWÜRMS.

Dark Earth Unicorn, presented by FASTWÜRMS, is a talk about deep soil intimacy, enhancing personal and social well being with the microbiome (Dirt XTC), and understanding the existential importance of the rhizosphere to all life on Earth. Dark Earth Unicorn is also a workshop about simple methods of making bio-char with pyrolysis, cost effective techniques for making aerobic compost/worm tea, and an introduction to high fertility (C.E.C.) fabric container growing.

From the early indigenous revelations of “Terra Preta de Indio”, to the revolutionary contemporary innovations of the Stockholm Biochar Project, Dark Earth Unicorn has profound implications for human futurity. Dark Earth Unicorn is fantastic and very pragmatic. Benefits include mitigating the climate crisis with carbon storage at scale, improved urban air quality, water and waste management, increased energy production, improved soil fertility and food security, increased biodiversity, and enhanced prosocial and emotional health.

Recipients of the 2023 Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts, FASTWÜRMS is the cultural project, trademark, and shared authorship of Kim Kozzi and Dai Skuse, who create poly-disciplinary works of art that mix performance and performative events into the context of immersive installations, collective making, and social exchange projects. FASTWÜRMS are represented by Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto.

This unique blend of lecture and workshop will be in-person at Abraham Erb’s Grist Mill in Waterloo Park, rain or shine!

Register Here.

The Big Ideas in Art + Culture lecture series is free and open to all.

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