Picture roots wrenched from their homeground, suspended in the air. What comes after, amid exposure to the unknown? Uprooted evokes the disruptive act of uprooting to invite you into its aftermath–an alchemical space of re-connection cohabited by both the human and other-than-human.

In the state of collective suspension emerging from the continual uprootedness of the present moment, this Art Week foregrounds the resilience of humans and others as we attempt to re-route, re-grow and create new, rhizomatic structures in unfamiliar environments.

In this vein of thought, our main feature this year, Re-seeding Stories, is a re-interpretation of our seminal Majlis Talks by curators Uriel Orlow and Andrea Thal that blend dialogue and performances about water, myth, echoes, community, and rituals of grief for a hybrid programme that considers voice as a method of re-rooting our scattered stories.

Earth School, the ongoing discursive platform by Kirstine Roepstorff, presents Sowing Futures, Harvesting Value, an assembly curated in collaboration with Fatoş Üstek to re-frame our understandings of value, regeneration, and reciprocity through conversations about art, ecology, archaeology, and future systems.

Our Yard Screens video installation, Scherben Mantra by artist Ali Kaaf in collaboration with Ayyam Gallery, mirrors the fragmented disorientation of uprooting. A diversity of gallery exhibitions and guest projects embody the generative reverberations of being uprooted through architecture, AI, displacement, abstraction, charcoal, fire, glass, flora, fauna and more.