Kate Price

artistiek onderzoek - community - ecologie

Kate Price is an artist and gardener from Naarm (Melbourne), Australia, currently working and wiggling in Rotterdam. Within her practice is a curiosity towards the maneuvers we make singularly and collectively within our environments. Drawing from her upbringing on a horticultural farm in Australia and present solo and communal gardening activities, she is currently exploring how gardening and agricultural practices can facilitate moments of exchange, reciprocity and relationship fostering between divergent beings. Her works take form through means of present gestures and gathering and reflecting sensibilities, attempting to honor and pay attention to the embedded current affairs that exist within our ecologies, and the multitude of perspectives that these entail. She holds an MFA from the Piet Zwart Institute (completed in 2022), and has exhibited projects in group and solo presentations in Australia, the Netherlands, Italy and Sweden, at both institutional and artist-run experimental spaces. Photo: Xiaofeini Liu

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    • AGF Syrups for Afrikaanderwijk Coöperatie's Grondstoffenstation opening

    Overig

    • 10-01-2024 t/m 10-01-2024
    • In samenwerking met: Afrikaanderwijk Coöperatie and Grondstoffenstation
    • Locatie: Afrikaanderwijk, Rotterdam
    • The Afrikaanderwijk Coöperatie's Grondstoffenstation collects waste materials from the Rotterdam South Market, from wood and cardboard to left over fruit and vegetables for further recycling ventures. Invited to consider the collected food waste and experiment with alternative ways it could still be used, mangos, mandarine and lemons were gleaned from the AGF bins and cooked into concentrated fruit syrups, later served with prosecco and sparkling water to celebrate the opening of the GSS .

    Compost Soilmmelier-ing

    Workshop

    • 10-11-2023 t/m 10-11-2023
    • In samenwerking met: in collaboration with Guillem S. Arquer, Garage School (Santiago Pinyol)
    • Locatie: Radius, Centre for Contemporary Art and Ecology, Delft
    • Invited by the Garage School to host their underground fermentation bar (as part of the exhibition 'RADICAL SYMBIOSIS: THE SOCIAL LIFE OF MICROBES') we took the opportunity to introduce participants to the complexities of soil. Borrowing from wine tasting instructions we used our noses to distinguish the characteristics of a selection of composts/soils collected around Rotterdam, encouraging us to engage our different senses as we interpret and understand the world around us.
    • http://www.radius-cca.org/en/agenda/garage-school-underground-10-november

    Shared Grounds

    Project

    • 11-08-2024
    • In samenwerking met: in collaboration with Guillem S. Arquer and Rib art space
    • Locatie: Gouwplein Park, Charlois, Rotterdam
    • Shared Grounds is a social art gardening project led together with Guillem S. Arquer, in collaboration with Rib art space. Centered around a semi-neglected area of ​​the Gouwplein public park in Oud Charlois, this project aims to work in dialogue with the existing garden and its human and more-than-human inhabitants/users/neighbors to develop alternative/experimental ways to relate and “manage” a green public space within the Rotterdam urban context.
    • https://sharedgrounds.blogspot.com/

    Tracing Soil Movements

    Workshop

    • 29-07-2023 t/m 29-07-2023
    • In samenwerking met: in collaboration with Guillem S. Arquer, invited by TENT
    • Locatie: TENT, Gemeente Soil Bank, Voedseltuin, Rotterdam
    • Rotterdam soils are constantly shifting: some being excavated to make room for new underground household “waste” containers, others being carted in as foundations for new parks. Some, if too polluted, into depths distant from human bodies. Together with Guillem S. Arquer we invited participants to jump on their bikes and be guided through and among the trails of soil movements in the city of Rotterdam, visiting the Gemeente Soil Bank and Voedingstuin garden along the way. Image: Liza Wolters
    • https://www.tentrotterdam.nl/en/event/tour-tracing-soil-movements/?ref=events

    Composting Structures - Springboard Art Fair

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 08-06-2023 t/m 11-06-2023
    • In samenwerking met: in collaboration with Guillem S. Arquer, curator Leana Boven, Springboard Art Fair
    • Locatie: Werkspoorkathedraal, Utrecht
    • Presentation of 'Composting Structures' in collaboration with Guillem S. Arquer in Booth P, curated by Leana Boven for Springboard Art Fair. Installation comprising HD video loop of footage taken during site visits and shelf of growing compost samples as comprised/gathered within our recent research residency 'Investigating: Humus communities in Rotterdam'. Photo: Silvia Arenas

    Groene Verstrengelingen

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 03-06-2023 t/m 04-06-2023
    • In samenwerking met: Gemaal op Zuid and Botanische tuin Afrikaanderwijk
    • Locatie: Gemaal op Zuid and Botanische tuin Afrikaanderwijk, Rotterdam
    • Inclusion of ceramic plant marker pieces in collaboration program 'Groene Vertanglelingen' of Gemaal op Zuid and Botanische Tuin Afrikaanderwijk in Rotterdam. Photo: Eden Calgie

    Perspectief - Kunst in de Heemtuin

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 27-05-2023 t/m 30-09-2023
    • In samenwerking met: Stichting Kunst in de Heemtuin
    • Locatie: Heemtuin, Leidendorp
    • Inclusion of my work 'sunbed' in group exhibition 'Perspective' at the Heemtuin in Leidendorp. The piece comprises a custom built outside lounge chair that holds a print within the frame at its foot-end. The print developed for this exhibition stems from a watercolor rendering of a sunflower image exchanged between the artist and her Mother, from their respective locations, and that of their gardening practices, in Rotterdam and Melbourne.

    Workshop for Rotterdam Reading Room in relation to 'the Politics of Permaculture'

    Workshop

    • 06-05-2023 t/m 06-05-2023
    • In samenwerking met: Rotterdam Reading Room
    • Locatie: Botanische tuin Afrikaanderwijk, Rotterdam
    • Invited by Rotterdam Reading Room to facilitate a workshop in response to the book 'the Politics of Permaculture' at neighborhood garden Botanische Tuin Afrikaanderwijk. The workshop guided participants through a series of observational exercises with the plants and other beings inhabiting the garden, followed by a sharing of simple propagation techniques and plant and soil care considerations that can be apply at home with your own or future green kin. Photo: Silvia Arenas

    Spring-Up! Robustly Tender Notes

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 29-04-2023 t/m 29-04-2023
    • In samenwerking met: Shop called LIFE
    • Locatie: Spoortuin, Rotterdam
    • Exhibition of ceramics and accompanying reading with Shop called LIFE, hosted at the allotment garden community Spoortuin in Rotterdam. A series of stoneware ceramics detailing an ensemble of information and stories about particular plant 'weed' species were nestled in amongst the garden plots. An accompanying reading took place in which the audience was wandered through the garden to the locations of different ceramics, reading aloud the narratives inscribed upon them. Photo: Silvia Arenas
    • https://www.ashopcalled.life/past-life

    End presentation 'Investigating: Humus communitites in Rotterdam'

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 26-04-2023 t/m 26-04-2023
    • In samenwerking met: in collaboration with Guillem S. Arquer
    • Locatie: Goethe Institut, Rotterdam
    • End public presentation of our residency period at the Goethe Institut in Rotterdam, which involved a relaxed talk about the varying aspects of research explored during the period. Photo: Silvia Arenas
    • https://www.goethe.de/ins/nl/nl/ver.cfm?event_id=24686561

    Sharing humusities group reading session

    Lezing

    • 19-03-2023 t/m 19-03-2023
    • In samenwerking met: in collaboration with Guillem S. Arquer, hosted by Goethe Institut Rotterdam for Art Central Rotterdam XL 2023
    • Locatie: Goethe Institut, Rotterdam
    • 'sharing humusities: a group reading session' was organized in collaboration with Guillem S. Arquer at Goethe-Institut Rotterdam for Art Central Rotterdam XL 2023. The reading group session was organized as part of their research project, 'Investigating: Humus communities in Rotterdam '. The gathering revolved around the notion of humusities, being understood as a term that brings together the many entanglements between humans and humus. Photo: Silvia Arenas
    • https://www.goethe.de/ins/nl/nl/ver.cfm?event_id=24529282

    Investigating: Humus communities in Rotterdam

    Residenties / uitwisseling

    • 01-02-2023 t/m 30-04-2023
    • In samenwerking met: in collaboration with Guillem S. Arquer
    • Locatie: Goethe Institut, Rotterdam
    • Together with Guillem S. Arquer, this three month collaborative research residency aimed to work with the collective knowledge of the peoples of Rotterdam involved in compost making in order to learn from their positive relationships with soil. This project constituted an attempt to raise awareness of the potential of city generated organic waste as an important and beneficial medium through which to re-evaluate the relationship between human and more-than-human agencies in urban ecologies.

    This is Reality - And it was but one chat away, MFA PZI Graduate Exhibition

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 08-07-2022 t/m 15-07-2022
    • Locatie: Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam
    • Piet Zwart Institute Master of Fine Art graduation exhibition. Multi-disciplinary presentation of divergent 'seeded' promptings and situated reflections as experienced within gardening contexts to explore how gardening practices can facilitate moments of exchange, reciprocity and relationship fostering. Of ongoing interest is how divergent stories and knowledges can embed themselves in these moments, where actions, spoken words, reflectivity, history and memory intermingle. Photo: Steven Maybury
    • https://www.pzwart.nl/blog/2022/06/28/this-is-reality/

    Let me tell you a story, it's here in my pocket

    Overig

    • 01-04-2022 t/m 01-04-2022
    • Locatie: Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam
    • Master's thesis, self-published

    I Must Be Living Twice

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 23-04-2022 t/m 27-11-2022
    • In samenwerking met: Shimmer
    • Locatie: European Art Centre, Palazzo Mora, Venice
    • Group exhibition of current Piet Zwart Institute MFA students, curated by Shimmer (Rotterdam) as part of 'Personal Structures' organized by the European Art Centre, Venice to coincide with Venice Biennale.

    Too fem for art

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 12-03-2022 t/m 01-06-2022
    • Locatie: Kollection Kitsch - WORM, Rotterdam
    • Group exhibition of fem-identifying artists.

    turning the compost pile

    Overig

    • 13-02-2022 t/m 13-02-2022
    • In samenwerking met: Good Times Bad Times Radio
    • Locatie: The Radio Paleis Maashaven - Gemaal op Zuid, Rotterdam
    • 'turning the compost pile', audio piece composed together with Guillem S. Arquer, included in 'The Interludes', Good Times Bad Times Radio at The Radio Paleis Maashaven, Rotterdam.

    Bedrock residency

    Residenties / uitwisseling

    • 01-10-2021 t/m 15-10-2021
    • Locatie: KKV, Bohuslän
    • Residency period at the KKV workshops in Bohuslän, Sweden in as part of GIBCA extended program. Culminated in end of residency group exhibition together with the other participants. I engaged with the screen printing and ceramics workshops to develop an artist note book and ceramic floral motifs that were installed in the end exhibition on wooden stone working benches together with objects and flora gleaned from the local area.

    Introduction to composting

    Workshop

    • 27-08-2021 t/m 27-08-2021
    • In samenwerking met: Guillem S. Arquer
    • Locatie: Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam
    • Workshop organized and conducted together with Guillem S. Arquer at Piet Zwart Institute demonstrating and discussing composting methodologies culminating in a lunch formed from the produce of our communal garden.

    PZI Garden, talk with Yoeri Guépin

    Overig

    • 15-06-2021 t/m 15-06-2021
    • In samenwerking met: Yoeri Guépin
    • Locatie: Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam
    • Talk with Yoeri Guépin as part of GRoW elective, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam. Within this lecture we discussed our individual artistic practices as connected to gardening and reflected upon the work we had engaged together on the rejuvenation of the Piet Zwart Institute studios communal garden.

    Glass House Exchange Project

    Project

    • 01-02-2021 t/m 01-11-2021
    • Locatie: VTV Streven naar Verbetering, Rotterdam
    • Working period conducted within the communal glasshouse of allotment garden community SNV in which seeds and plants collected from member of the garden were given to me to grow and redistribute to other gardeners from the glasshouse over the course of nine months. A small garden containing a combination of some of these plants was also established within the glasshouse during the working period.

    My brothers are good at building things but I'm pretty okay at laying bricks

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 21-06-2019 t/m 17-07-2019
    • Locatie: C3 Contemporary Art Space, Abbotsford
    • Solo exhibition of painted paper and cardboard works exploring architectural assemblage and idiosyncratic decision/mark making.

    Hospitable Structures, Makeshift Spaces, The Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool, 2017-2018

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 01-11-2017 t/m 01-02-2018
    • Locatie: The Warrnambool Art Gallery, Warrnambool
    • Solo exhibition of watercolor and gouache works installed in wooden structure produced in response to time spent in the Netherlands observing the behavior of home window adornment.