Cairns are collective, collaborative and emergent landscape sculptures, piles of stones that historically act as markers of time and space.
Join artist and cultural geographer Rob St John at Tate Exchange and contribute to the creation of a cairn to mark the newly built Switch House; applying clay tiles with lichen and moss paints to make your mark upon this collaborative sculpture.
Once the installation period is over, the whole structure will then be transported to Hooke Park woodland in Dorset, where in collaboration with the Architectural Association and Common Ground charity, it will be made freely accessible to visitors and documented for years to come. Over months and years, it is likely that the spores and seeds ‘painted’ onto the cairn materials will germinate and grow; to emerge, pattern and even destroy the structure we create together.
Follow the project online: emergentlandscapes.co.uk