Ruth Burke, Domestic Rewilding
ACRE
48193 County Rd E, Steuben, WI 54657
Initial Plowing/Cultivation with Percheron Draft Horses - June 18, 10am-2pm
Initial Community Planting - June 19, dawn to dusk (community welcome!)
“Domestic Rewilding” is a land artwork created through collaborative interspecies labor using animal-powered cultivation practices to create a 200’ walking path with native/pollinator-friendly plant species.
Ruth Burke is an interdisciplinary artist, teamster, farm laborer, and cultural worker. Her art is informed by her lived experience of caring for animals and nurtured by continued participation in farm work and animal husbandry. She collaborates with her horse and team of young oxen, addressing notions of interspecies kinship, multispecies history, and more-than-human collaboration through land art, installation, sound, and social practices. Burke is currently an Assistant Professor of Video Art in the Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts, School of Art at Illinois State University.
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Founded in 2010, ACRE is a non-profit organization based in Chicago designed to support emerging artists develop, discuss and present their artistic practices. As a community-coordinated effort to provide emerging artists with an accessible, equitable, and interdisciplinary residency and exhibitions program, ACRE has welcomed over 1,000 visual artists, sound artists, musicians, performance artists, writers, curators, scientists, chefs and others to its Wisconsin and Illinois communities.