LADA Screens: Rosalind Fowler and Fourthland – Online Screening

Biography and credits

Rosalind Fowler is an artist and filmmaker interested in entanglement and participatory artistic processes as forms of re-enchantment, transformation and speculative enquiry.She leads gatherings, workshops, performances and interventions in collaborative contexts, using these processes as starting points for creating film work, often in social settings. She has worked together with artists and across other practices such as sound therapy, herbalism, shamanism, astrology, horticulture, and scientific research, to create space for imaginative encounters and shifted forms of consciousness between diverse groups of people and with non-human forms of life.Collective experiences, processes, materials and insights are performed, documented and re-visioned for film. The resulting work, combined with other imagery, weaves together experimental film, poetic ethnography, performance, and fiction. She sees analogue film as a form of magic with the ability to enchant and re-imagine, her haptic approaches to filmmaking echoing a tactile, sensory engagement with the land through the work, often then layered with digital and greenscreen imagery.Recent works include All is leaf, so to amplify the wonder (2019) supported by ACE and Barbican as part of Walthamstow London Borough of Culture,  BREADROCK, Chant of the Whaleswan Kestle Barton (2018), and BREADROCK, I feel like doing this, PEER (2018) in collaboration with Fourthland,  and NowhereSomewhere (2016) a 2-screen film installation for William Morris Gallery, Barbican Foyer Art commission, and Somerset House’s Utopia season.

www.rosalindfowler.co.uk

Fourthland use their process led research and commitment to social practice to reposition marginalised knowledge in order to form new modes of social and environmental consciousness with diverse communities and cultural groups. Since 2008 their work has sought to merge art and life to collectively develop the myths that are essential to enchant and reposition forms of kinship to foster a deeper connection to the land and each other. These methods produce transformative collaborative projects, choreographed rituals, sculptural and sound works, storytelling and improvisations that weave together human and non-human communication. Recent exhibitions of multimedia installation and performance include Kestle Barton, PEER, SPACE, Somerset House, Arnolfini, Barbican, Errant Bodies, UCL, South London Gallery, with other projects in UK and internationally.