March 25-August 20 2023
Opening March 24
The artists in Sustaining Small Acts develop their work from the connection with their physical environment. Their work often springs from what they find close to home, in the material of their daily surroundings: their own household waste, the weeds in the city, the ground under our feet. This everyday material is entwined with fundamental questions. Questions about humans as the only animals that foul their own nest, with planetary consequences.
February 25-26 2023
from 20:00
PuntWG Amsterdam, Netherlands
Fundraising film-screening at PuntWG
featuring films by Turkish contemporary film-makers, to raise emergency relief funds for Turkey and Syria.
Please write to sol.archer@gmail.com to reserve a seat.
Featuring films by Peline Esmer, Belit Sag, Cihad Caner, and more to be announced.
Entrance is a suggested donation of €20, or more if you are able.
We will have details on four suggested funds at the door, and instructions on how to donate to them.
They are:
A Livestock Feed Fund
Mor Dayanışma
Sard NGO
Ahbap
February 18-26 2023
PuntWG Amsterdam, Netherlands
Worlds I n Formation
Opening: zaterdag 18 feb 2023 — 18:00 uur
Part of the puntWG Open Call Series
11-17 Saturday and Sunday or by appointment.
January 27 2023
On a Bare Rock By The Ocean You Will Never Hear Anything But Birds Whose Cries Blend With The Sound Of Winds
The International Premiere of "on a a bare rock by the ocean you will never hear anything but birds whose cries blend with the sounds of winds", my film work made in collaboration with volunteers at the Tropical Kas Beetsterzwaag will be at the IFFR on January 27, LanterenVenster Rotterdam, at 15:30 and 20:00.
Visit www.iffr.com for tickets and festival passes
February 18 2023
le Crac 19 Montbeliard, France
Pas De Cerise Sans Noyau
in collaboration with artist Ju Hyun Lee, our film work pas de cerise sans noyau will be on display at Crac 19, Montbeliard. Opening February 18, 2023.
September 24 2022
"If Culture is a house, language is the key"
The Teen Advisory Boards or Praksis, Index, and Publics are collectively developing a glossary through workshops, interviews, and field note exercises led by Ina Hagen and myself.
Together they will be addressing the histories carried by languages and developing a glossary as a political act of fostering equality and mutual support.
Keep following to know about the publication to come later in the year featuring this project.
September 21 2022
The code of conduct collaboratively developed by the 2021 Praksis Teen Advisory Board (PTAB) in worskshops run by Ina Hagen and myself, has been reworked into guidelines for play in their publication 'in character'.
available here.
https://www.praksisoslo.org/editions-1/in-character-the-publication
September 16-19 2022
not only the earth we share
will be part of a three day screening part in Batumu Georgia.
find on instagram at the above link for details.
July 10 2022
Throughout June 2022 I have been in residence at Kunsthuis SYB in Beetsterzwaag, Friesland. Whilst there I have been collaborating with volunteers who maintain the Tropische Kas, a tropical greenhouse in the village on a film work thinking through image making and the spectacle of images of nature and the tropics.
Visit on July 10 to see the result of this work period
July 03 2022
Docs Ireland / Black Box, Belfast
The launch of Who Makes The City will follow a screening of not only the earth we share at Docs Ireland. Check Docs Ireland for tickets, and Who Makes The City, a new conversation based platform on contemporary urbanism, launched in collaboration with Household Belfast.
The launch will feature a conversation between Northern Irelands Green Party Deputy Malachai O’Hara, architect Agustina Martire, and architect Mark Hackett.
Check the Who Makes The City website for details.
June 26 2022
Eco-Musee, Fougerolles
The three season cycle of ‘Pas de Cerise sans Noyau’, a film work made in collaboration with artist Ju Hyun Lee and the Cherry Growing community of Fougerolles will be screening at the ecomusee Fougerolles.
Visit Crystal Kirsch for details on Ju’s Land term project and future screenings.
June 01 2022
Kunsthus SYB, Beetsterzwaag
On June 01 2022, I arrived for a six week residency at Kunshuis SYB, in Friesland.
Here I will be working with local communities on the construction of environments and ecosystems to support collages of nature with plants from around the world.
If you want to get in touch you can write to me at info@solarcher.net or visit on Saturdays and Sundays between 1300 and 1700, when the residency doors will be open.
May 20-23 2022
TENT, Rotterdam
May 20 2022
Launch events for A Muitas Maos / Held by Hands
20:00-22:00hrs
Featuring a conversation with three of the authors, a performance from Rotterdam K-Cover group Violet Shot and a screening of the film work Worlds in Formation
The Book is available in the Netherlands at Vetgedrukt
April 02&April 09 2022
March 30 2022
I am delighted to announce that not only the earth we share has been acquired by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland Collection.
January 05 2022
TENT Online Cinema
Once You Till, a film work developed with the Four Sisters growing Project, in Amsterdam will be screening between January 05 and January 23 on TENT Online Cinema.
Follow Four Sisters on Instagram to be updated
October 29 2021
Worlds in Formation showing in Phantoms of the Commons
at Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden.
October 29 2021 – January 09 2022
October 2021
Forked Tongue screening program
I will have a short work in ‘Forked Tongue’, a series of one minute video shorts curated by Madison Bycroft, premiering at the 17th Kinemastik International Short Film Festival taking place in Malta in November, and followed by online presentations and Q&A with het Nieuwe Institute Rotterdam, Netherlands.
October 17 2021
Not Only The Earth We Share will be on show for a month from October 17 at the MAC Belfast.
dedicated website here:
September 2021
Not Only The Earth We Share will screen in the Belfast Marine festival 2021.
Check Household for details
dedicated website here:
Mãos Na Terra / Bunho Harvest 2021
Harvesting rushes with weaving master Manuel Ferreira, and Iany Galo and Lucrezia Papillo of Macheia
instagram-image-HD-720p.movJune 26 2021
Code of Conduct workshop
On June 26 2021 I led a workshop with the Praksis Oslo Teen Advisory Board PTAB in Collaboration with Ina Hagen, to codify their responsibilities and relationships, and develop a Code of Conduct and a Living Glossary to define their working space. It will be live on the PTAB website after a period of review.
June 25 2021
Textos Sobre KPOP, Fandom, Comunidade, e Cultura!
envia propostas para kpoplivro@gmail.com
March 25 2021
Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
Exhibition
March 25 – May 29, 2021
Collaborative film based exhibition made with communities of Sailortown, Belfast in collaboration with Household CIC between 2018 and 2021.
Addressing the creation of cultural commons, rights to the city, and the construction of community through play, imagination, and culture.
dedicated website here: