Guest Editor
For each issue, GLEAN invites a Guest Editor to curate a section of the magazine. We interview them and ask them to invite writers and artists who have influenced their practice (or who otherwise deserve our attention) to take up space in these pages.
Guest Editor Futurefarmers
Futurefarmers is a group of diverse practitioners aligned through a common interest in creating frameworks of participation that facilitate encounter, exchange and tactile forms of inquiry. Having previously exhibited in venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA the Solomon R. Guggenheim., Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo and the Sharjah Biennial, and with public projects spanning Northern Europe, Italy, Belgium and the US, Futurefarmers recently established a new working group in the capital of the EU — Brussels. Last year, they initiated In the Belly…, a project that uses the already existing infrastructure of the Brussels-Charleroi Canal to bring small-scale, local farmers into contact with the global flow of goods and foreign trade in the city. (The project is commissioned by Gluon in partnership with Innoviris, Good Food Brussels, VUB, EIT Food, and Ughent.)
Futurefarmers commissioned a text by Anna Friz, who writes about radiophonic longings and signal propagation. Since 2017, Friz has also collaborated with the media artist Rodrigo Ríos Zunino, undertaking intensive research in the Atacama Desert in Chile. This has resulted in a suite of performances, installations, short films and scholarship. Here, they present photographs from the audiovisual performance Salar: Adaptation, which they are in the process of adapting into a feature film.