Co-curating Common Ground: An International Festival on the Politics of Land and Food

Last year I had the pleasure of working with brilliant international artists through Common Ground: An International Festival on the Politics of Land and Food, which I co-curated with Gideon Lester. The 2022–23 edition of Fisher Center’s LAB Biennial, Common Ground, was a year-long international program focusing on the politics of land and food which took place across four continents. The festival included two four-day festivals at and around the Fisher Center—one at harvest time (October 13–16, 2022), and one in the growing season (May 4–7, 2023).

The Biennial showcased a robust line-up of new commissioned works by Kenyon Adams, Tara Rodríguez Besosa, Kite, Cooking Sections, Vivien Sansour, as well as myself, alongside a rich program of talks, panels, and installations that ran in tandem throughout the academic year. For more info about Common Ground, visit Fisher Center’s website here.