29/08 – 01/09/2026 The Spine @Notte Verde
18/07 & 1-2/08/2026 🔗 The Spine Guided Tours @Zarlardingas Farm
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14 – 17/07/2026 The Spine Activation @Zarlardingas Farm

[EN] THE SPINE offers a relational interface with the territories it inhabits, consciously interweaving people within the textures of the very soil. Feeling like a form of socio-environmental acupuncture, THE SPINE gently punctuates and revitalizes the earth’s body, allowing us to collectively (re)generate. Tracing a pathway through land, this installation resembles a living geoglyph within a ceremonial unit.

Formed through communal and intimate bonds, THE SPINE is setup and activated across continents, where we discover how restorative processes can be shared. Together, we craft counter-systemic remedies that challenge the imperial logic of land, and carry the silenced stories of territories into the future.

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THE SPINE PARKOUR 2026 – 2027
Between 2026 and 2027, we materialize and activate THE SPINE through two trajectories spanning continental Europe and an island in Chilean Polynesia.

First, at Zarlardingas Farm in Belgium, we explore how this project contributes to the rewilding processes of a privately owned nature reserve. Then, with this experience in hand, THE SPINE travels to Easter Island. Here, we work in collaboration with the Rapa Nui community, researching the potential of THE SPINE to unearth ancestral traditions buried by colonialism throughout their sacred archaeological sites. Shorter residencies along the way—at Casa delle Agriculture on the Italian peninsula of Salento, Lecce, and in the Mexican jungle of Los Tuxtlas with Topote de Acahual—allow us to imagine possible futures for THE SPINE within these initiatives that repair local eco-social systems.