Sol Archer

Language forms us as individuals and communities. Access to a language can figure the access we have to culture and community, and the words we use shape our relationships. In these workshops we are collectively developing a glossary as a political tool for inclusion with the Teen Advisory Boards of Praksis, Index, and Publics. The group are led by Sol and Ina in analyzing the ways that history is carried in language and how the intentional use of language is a tool for political change.

Maos Na Terra is a short film made with master artisan Manuel Ribeiro Sanches and his apprentices Iany Gayo and Lucrezia Papillo as they harvest Bunho, traditional weaving material in marsh land in Portugal.
The work is showing through September and October in the Biennale of Arts and Crafts Lisbon.

Liquid Structures is a three-day program of film screenings, exhibitions, and talks in the public space, organized within the scope of Batumi Urban Agenda: the research project founded in direct response to the urban and social crisis in the city. At the Batumi Pier, more than 15 Georgian and international artists present works that resonate with this context while also contributing new perspectives rooted in different localities.

Who Makes the City is an episodic platform about the contemporary urban condition. Each edition introduces international thinkers, practitioners, and activists framing their research, followed by public conversations between practitioners and audiences on specific conditions in the edition city. This launch event featured a conversation between Green Party politician Malachi O'Hara, architects Agustina Martire and Mark Hackett, and Sol Archer.

not only the earth we share is a work made in collaboration with overlapping communities of Sailortown Belfast on their practices of cultural commoning. At this documentary festival presentation the screening was followed by a Q&A with Sol and other stakeholders.

Sol worked with volunteers at the 1860s Tropical Greenhouse to make a film work on their practices of making and maintaining tropical spectacle in the Frisian climate. With singer Jeanette Huizinga they made a sound environment with volunteers of the Tropical Greenhouse using 19th-century musical transcriptions of Brazilian animal calls from the archive of Instituto Hercule Florence.

In this film work volunteers who maintain a greenhouse built in the 1860s in a small, northern Dutch village, soundtrack their maintenance labor with vocal re-creations from the archives of Hercules Florence, transcribed on a 1821 expedition into former Dutch Brazil. This is a tonal work on the construction of ecologies as image practice emergent contemporaneously with traditions of photographic and cinematic image making, and the maintenance of colonial spectacle.

Held by hands / a muitas Maos is a publication platforming texts and photographic essays commissioned from young writers in the Brazilian Kpop fandom. The texts speak from the formal disciplines each contributor studies towards the social and identity forming potential of fandom and the specific potentialities of the Kpop genre internationally and in Brazil. This event featured talks from three of the authors, performances from Rotterdam Kpop dance groups and an audience conversation.

'Worlds in Formation' was filmed over weekends spending time with a community of young amateur dancers who rehearse KPOP (Korean Pop Music) dance covers using the windows of the Museum of Modern Art, Rio, as mirrors. The film documents moments of collective practice, creating spaces of care, resistance, and survival, and producing counter-publics in the city, staging rehearsal as the conjuring up of a desired world within the confines of the present. https://vimeo.com/634523771

Held by hands / a muitas Maos is a publication platforming texts and photographic essays commissioned from young writers in the Brazilian Kpop fandom. The texts speak from the formal disciplines each contributor studies towards the social and identity forming potential of fandom and the specific potentialities of the Kpop genre internationally and in Brazil

Held by hands / a muitas Maos is a publication platforming texts and photographic essays commissioned from young writers in the Brazilian Kpop fandom. The texts speak from the formal disciplines each contributor studies towards the social and identity forming potential of fandom and the specific potentialities of the Kpop genre internationally and in Brazil

The conceptual framework of nature is inherited from the image making practices of the colonial and modern period. In this project I document the maintenance labor of preserving these imaginaries, in designed ecosystems and in the conservation of European paintings of tropical space. Currently on display at Sítio Roberto Burle Marx, the research garden of Burle Marx, the leading landscape designer of Latin American Modernism, who constructed the composite image of Brazil as a tropical space.

Made within the Four Sisters Growing Project, an eco-feminist agricultural project on brownfield in the periphery of Amsterdam by Marija Sujica and Muge Yilmaz, in collaboration with The Beach. Once you till is a short film collage of human and other-than human touch, relationships, and associations as they emerge following a year of recuperating soil and growing food. Preview here. https://vimeo.com/671485208

I was invited to be part of School of Missing Studies in their project with the MukHA and AIR Antwerp.

Järva was the area that was first hit hard by the pandemic. After years of gradual shutdowns of service and meeting places, Tensta became even more closed with total isolation as a result. The art gallery, which to a large extent functioned as a social meeting place, also had to close. Now the art gallery opens with a collection of works that in the form of video, painting, installations, publications and social activities, revolve around themes such as language, who owns the city, art as care,

'not only the earth we share' is a film work made in collaboration with Household CIC and communities of Sailortown, Belfast, a working class neighborhood that was demolished in the 1970s to build an as yet incomplete motorway. The film work focuses on amateur cultural activity as a model of community building and resistance in the elderly displaced population and children living in the contemporary area, through the production of cultural commons. In relation to the Anne Tallentine exhibit

Screening at the Belfast Maritime Festival. 'not only the earth we share' is a film work made in collaboration with Household CIC and communities of Sailortown, Belfast, a working class neighborhood that was demolished in the 1970s to build an as yet incomplete motorway.

In collaboration with Artists Marija Sujica and Müge Yilmaz, who have been turning a disused plot of land inso a social agri-cultural social sculpture, Sol is developing a film work that focuses on the labor of hands, the construction of a green space for intersecting nationalists groups, and story telling around the relationship between human and non-human actors in the Four Sisters growing territory.

Workshop to develop a code of conduct formalizing the relationships and responsibilities within the Praksis Teen Advisory Board and the Praksis structure. Covering language, identity, representation, communication, conflict, support, responsibilities, access, and other group specific needs.

I am commissioning a set of texts from members of the Brasilian KPOP fan community. These texts look at the power of popular culture, and approach the subject of fandom from the trained discipline of writers and photographers from within the fandom. They variously write philosophical texts on fandom, on appropriation, museological studies on cultural institutions, texts on soft power, and more. We print in Sao Paolo in January 2022 and will have launches in Brasil and Netherland & Sweden.

Who Makes the City is a platform for discussing contemporary urban conditions. It will launch in November 2021 with a short series of videos by thinkers of urbanism and an in-situ conversation about urban planning in Belfast, Northern Ireland. This will be followed episodically with in-situ conversations from more cities around the world, each time with 4 supporting international thinkers contributing 20 minute video talks.

'not only the earth we share' is a film work made in collaboration with Household CIC and communities of Sailortown, Belfast, a working class neighborhood that was demolished in the 1970s to build an as yet incomplete motorway. The Exhibition includes amateur paintings and videos of theater from the Sailortown community and sculptural installation derived from the demolished residential buildings.

In collaboration with Anik Fournier of If I Can't Dance, I am leading a research group at Artez to develop strategies and methods for codifying the responsibilities, rights, processes, and relationships within BEAR (the Artez undergrad Fine Art program) and how to collectively produce an applicable procedural document that protects and clarifies the workings of individual artists, staff, and the needs of the institution.

Made in collaboration with artist Ju Hyun Lee who spent the covid period working closely with an agricultural community in the Haute Saone, France, who produce Kirsch, a regionally specific drink. This film turns a lens on to the signifiers of place, taste, and shared bodily experience of collective labour. The survival of this tradition is a model of existence through relation and this multi-year film follows this relation as the community struggles to adapt to rapidly changing seasonal cycles

In Collaboration with the Korean artist Ju Hyun Lee, and cherry growing and Kirsch distilling communities of Haute conte, we am developing a film work focused on the creation of identity and community through the labor and culture of making a regionally specific drink, Kirsch. Lee has been working with this community for some time, and together we are joining various points through the growing, harvesting, distilling, and celebrating the liquor.

With Household, we presented documentation and work in progress from our ongoing project in Sailortown, Belfast at the Tate Modern in an international conference on the presence, potential, and needs for artistic practice in the public realm.

in collaboration with Rozenstraat gallery this was a pubic conversation and presentation of a film work in development, called "Worlds in Formation". The work was filmed with amateur KPOP dance groups in Rio de Janeiro in 2018

The Defying parrot, curated by Emmeli Person and Marti Mannen was the culmination of the years work of the Index Teen Advisory Board. An investigation of the relationship between youth, art, and the city. In the exhibition Ina Hagen and I presented the performative work we developed over six months with the Index Teen Advisory Board; To All The Gods, Honey, To The Mistress Of The Labyrinth, Honey In Equal Amounts.

Exhibition curated by Adeline Lepine, at Le Crac 19, featuring the above listed video project made in collaboration with the Villa Autodromo community, myself, and Cristina Ribas and Lucas S Ico, as a three channel installation, featuring one video on the theater history of the community, one a video fo a long walk with a metal can recycler along the route she walks for leisure up a mountain, and one a silent walk following a street dog through the overgrown ruins of the village.

In collaboration with artist Ina Hagen and Emmeli Person, curator of the education program at Index Foundation, we led the conversations and workshops of the Index Teen Advisory Board over six months, during which we developed a conversation, series of videos, performances, and a series of objects, investigating the traces of history and power that run through the aesthetics of the city, and direct the behaviour, legibility, and access of art spaces in Stockholm.

Through the perspective of different contemporary artists from around the world, the exhibition, Par-delà l'horizon liquide, shines a light on the possibilities offered by certain speculative tales that try to foresee the future. Taking climate change at its starting point – which is causing the clear weakening of the material world and the rapid expansion of new immaterial resources – Par-delà l'horizon liquideshows us a post-planetary world ruled by mega-data.

Residency with Capacete in Rio de Janeiro. Here I studied at the Theater of the Opressed institute, collaborated with amateur KPOP dance Groups, and developed works with artists Cristina Ribas and Lucas S Ico.

In collaboration with children of the village, we made curtains for the PHLOX space, with hand inked maps of their spaces of play and imagination, and made an audio tour, leading you through the play spaces of the village.

I was the first resident on the Household Vicinities residency, which situates international artists with communities in Belfast. Over four years I developed a project in collaboration with household through workshops with Young and Old communities of Sailortown Belfast. Through this residency we developed the film work "not only the earth we share"

I was invited by the curatorial collective Household to develop a multi year project in collaboration with themselves and the historical and contemporary residents of Sailortown Belfast. Sailortown was a densely populated neighborhood which in the 1970s was demolished to make way for an as-yet unfinished motorway. Still key to community identity in the city, the area is symbolic of top-down planning and the use of infrastructure to segregate community.

Annual festival and Exhibition in Galway, Ireland.

In collaboration with Hunter Longe and Lauren Huret we performed Deep Blue Dream, an audio visual performance about AI for the 2016 Red Cross convention in Turkey.

Exhibition of Staff and graduates with the Norwich University Gallery and Piet Zwart institute.

I exhibited a three channel video work at the Sydney Biennial

Villa Autodromo was a neighborhood in the outskirts of Rio which was evicted with brutal police force and demolished to landscape the view from the Rio Olympic site. The long standing community fought. a long and well publicized struggle to remain on their family land, now extremely expensive development territory. In collaboration with Cristina Ribas and Lucas S Ico, & the community we made a film through Theater of the Opressed workshops, re-enacting scenes from their community theater

In collaboration with Lucas s Ico and Cristina Ribas, I produced a short work with the aldeia Maracanã about their history as a grass roots indigenous movement and the states effort to evict them from the site they occupy, the ruins of the imperial museum of indigenous Brasil .

'Worlds in Formation' is a film project initiated during time in residence at Capacete, in Rio de Janeiro. It was filmed over weekends spending time with a community of young dancers who rehearse KPOP (South Korean Pop Music) dance covers using the windows of the Museum of Modern Art, Rio, as mirrors. Following rehearsal, periods of hanging out, preparation, competition, and care, the project focuses on building of community as a generative space of resistance through elective assembly.