SOUP TALK: Fernando García Dory
Drawing on his studies in art, sociology, and agroecology, Fernando García-Dory’s practice confronts cultural conditions under post-Fordism. In rethinking the role of the artist as a producer of living culture, García-Dory aims to address how humans relate to nature within the multifaceted context of landscape, rurality, identity, crisis, and utopia. His work addresses conflict and cooperation from microorganisms to social systems through expanded sculpture, collaborative agroecological projects, actions, and cooperatives.
His major works to date include organising an experimental shepherd’s school (2004–ongoing) in Spain, that attracts serious farmers—not just ‘art’ farmers—worldwide.
Fernando also runs INLAND- an arts collective dedicated to agricultural, social and cultural production which confronts the various problems of a system that is collapsing at its environmental, cultural and financial levels – affecting both the planet and the individual- by formulating critical tools and applying them through experimental practice.
Unfortunately Fernando can’t join us in person so this event will be online via Microsoft Teams. However we will be hosting and broadcasting it here at the pub so feel free to come along in person if you’d like to join us for soup!
