How do we reinhabit the ruins of monocultural rural landscapes in both socially and ecologically regenerative ways? How do we negotiate belonging, ownership and (denied) access to land? How do we merge our local ecological practices with a global focus on environmental justice?

What role can art play in cultivating new and other inhabitation practices? How do we organize, negotiate and host differences? What are our debts, duties and responsibilities to this land, and to each other? Who are 'we'?

Join us for the first public Hosting Lands workshop, which will explore questions, practices and problems of commoning, collectivity, hospitality and solidarity in encounters between art, agriculture and activism. This workshop will hold space for informal knowledge sharing, and speculative exercises of reimagining and reinhabiting the rural through (re)installing and negotiating legal, affective and artistic politics of the commons. The workshop will be facilitated by Hosting Lands, and will take its point of departure in the practices by PDAS (DK), Kultivator (SE) and Skovgro (DK).

This is a non-expert oriented workshop with emphasis on how to anchor the exhibition project Hosting Lands within the particular locality, lands and communities of På Den Anden Side / Hårbølle, Møn. The workshop is welcoming everyone interested in engaging in curious and speculative conversations around these themes.

What is the relationship between access, ownership and belonging to (this) land? What are our debts, duties and responsibilities to this land, and to each other? What are the promises and limits of our hospitality practices? How are we in solidarity with each other? Who and what is entailed in this ‘we’?