Lia Rousset

  • Verge, 2016

    Verge, 2016

    Verge, 2016Fermentation FestReedsburg, WI In Verge, benches from local hardwoods highlight the transition zone between two adjacent ecological communities; where field meets forest. The benches, designed by late Wisconsin ecologist Aldo Leopold, reflect the human position in this larger ecotone. As the benches are turned into charcoal, they become a resting point for nonhumans. Added…

  • Knowledge Lab, 2015

    Knowledge Lab, 2015

    Knowledge Lab, 2015School of the Art InstituteChicago, ILIn the spring term of 2015 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, I facilitated and instructed a class called Knowledge Lab: Entanglements with TA Noel Fetting-Smith. The following documentation presents our work together. Using the Columbus building courtyard and garden as a classroom, students will…

  • Drift, 2014

    Drift, 2014

    Drift, 2014Reedsburg, WisconsinWormfarm Institute’s Fermentation Fest Drift is both an autonomous intervention in the landscape and a site for exchange with residents and visitors. This floating sculptural form advances to shore on weekends where the artists will serve spring infusions made from local market farm produce harvested this fall, in frozen glacial water harvested from Exit…