Artists from Tilling Roots & Seeds share their process working with local farmers, scientists, and communities across Europe. Engage in discussion about artistic methodologies, rural knowledge, and ecological transition. An opportunity to expand your network and contribute to a growing community of change-makers.
Ritual device for fungal humus - Photo: Santiago Morilla
Networking Event
Town Hall Meeting: Art, Soil, and Community
A conversation with the main protagonists of the Tilling Roots & Seeds project.
Nicoletta Tranquillo (IT), Silvia Girardello (IT), Fara Peluso (IT/DE), Santiago Morilla (ES), Mali Weil (IT), Emma Harris (DK), Quo Artis (Tatiana Kourochkina (RU/ES), Helena Pérez Guerra (ES))
POSTCITY, First Floor, Town Hall, co-hosted by CIFRA
Sat 6. Sep 2025
15:00
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16:30
Registration required!
Language //
EN
Ticket //
FREE / No Ticket
Max. Participants //
30
Info //
Drop-ins may be accommodated, but to guarantee availability we suggest registering.
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Quo Artis
Quo Artis is an international nonprofit organization based in Barcelona, founded in 2015, and dedicated to fostering connections between art, science, technology, and ecology. It serves as a conduit between professionals across these fields, curating, coordinating, and facilitating exploratory journeys, symposiums, exhibitions, and educational workshops. The foundation also oversees commissioned project development and conducts research at the intersection of art and the loss of biodiversity.
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Photo: Eymelt Sehmer
Fara Peluso
Fara Peluso is a bio artist, designer, and researcher with a strong interest in biology and micro algae, enquiring into their agency and poetics through a speculative design. Peluso wants to raise critical questions about the design of new tools and how they can tell the story of possible future scenarios about the quality of our lives, attitudes, and choices. In 2022 Peluso was in residency for the S+T+ARTS center in Linz and since April 2024 she has been a researcher at the Bio Design Lab of HfG Karlsruhe.
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Photo: Mercedes Fadrique
Santiago Morilla
Santiago Morilla is a multidisciplinary artist, PhD in contemporary art (extraordinary award 2021 by the Complutense University of Madrid–UCM), specialised in New Media Art at the MEDIA Lab of the University of Art and Design Helsinki, and lecturer in Bachelor's and Master's degrees at UCM. He develops his art-based research within the synergies between contemporary art + (post)nature + situated technologies, with a special interest in interspecies communication and data visualisation.
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Photo: Sarai Ramirez Payá
Emma Harris
Emma Harris is a visual anthropologist, filmmaker, and visual artist working across ethnography, cinematic poetry, and low-toxicity analog processes. Her work looks into multispecies relations in regenerative agriculture, where soil is viewed as a living ecosystem to collaborate with. Here she explores a new material aesthetic in agriculture through cinematic poetry and plant based analog processes to establish a greater sensitivity towards other life forms in the biosphere.
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Photo: Roberta Segata
Mali Weil
Mali Weil is an artistic platform established by Elisa Di Liberato, Lorenzo Facchinelli and Mara Ferrieri, based in South Tyrol (IT). She develops an expanded performative research that investigates the spaces and modes of disclosure of political imagination, on ecological issues. Her visual production ranges from performance to product and speculative design, from editorial to film, but she also works through open and participatory set ups as platforms for discussion and exchange.
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Photo: Lorenzo Burlando
Nicoletta Tranquillo
I’m the founding partner of Kilowatt and the cultural director of Serra Madre. Although I’m an economist, I have always focused on ecology, climate change, and the environmental crisis, combining different disciplines. I have spent years supporting the creation and growth of organizations and business models with a significant social and environmental impact. Today, I’m particularly committed to promoting practices that encourage ecological thinking and imagination across art and science.
