Performance: Ritual: Lecture

A Soil Biome Immersion immerses its audience into the biodiverse and complex realm that is soil through spoken word, sound, visual cues, lighting and tactile experience.

A Soil Biome Immersion explore our ecological ontology in relation to soil as part of the nutrient cycles throughout the planet. It binds all organisms to be ancestral remnants of each other.

With a strong basis within the sciences, ecological processes within the soil biome are addressed as a tool to expand ones ecological imagination and understand the important role soil plays in the ecosphere. This perspective enables an understanding of molecules that once resided within the primordial soup becoming part of ones self. 

“I will never look at soil the same way again” Dr Alex Stol

“I loved participating in Aviva’s Soil Immersion workshop! It sparked so much conversation amongst the teachers participating in the Child-Soil Relations in the Anthropocene Project. Aviva’s scientific and artistic work helped the teachers make connections and in doing so the concepts we have been thinking with, liveliness, interconnectedness/relationality, and temporality came to life. This work added an important creative and scientific layer to the project” Professor Mindy Blaise, Edith Cowan University

If you are interested in experiencing a Soil Biome Immersion at your event, conference or school, please be in touch!

Performed at:

Performance Climates Conference, Melbourne Uni 2016

Fitzroy High School, Melbourne 2017

William Angliss Institute, Melbourne Knowledge Week 2018

New Economy Conference, William Angliss Institute, 2018

Australian Earth Laws Arts Retreat, Maleny, 2018

Moreland Primary School, 2019

Of the Earth, Bunjils Place, 2019

Edith Cowan University, 2022