Queer Stone Circle
With Simon Olmetti
OFF SITE
Saturday 3 February 2024
A workshop with Simon Olmetti. Part of the Radical Landscapes events and activities programme.
A workshop and collective ritual to create a temporary stone circle of painted and reclaimed small rocks. Join the event at Lea Bridge Library where participants are invited to queer rocks through painting and patterning whilst sharing experiences of the land. The event will then proceed to Walthamstow Marshes, culminating in an Imbolc-inspired ritual. This is originally a Celtic/Pagan celebration to mark mid-winter, and will involve planting new ‘seeds’ for spring and spiritually reclaiming the land as queer and as our own.
Welcoming the LBGTQIA+ community, friends, and allies to this Radical Landscapes event.
About the artist
Simon is an Italian artist living in London, and a PhD candidate in Fine Arts at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham. His practice and research focus on queering the land through spirituality, utilising walking, sculptural forms, video, photography, creative writing and performative rituals. Simon has participated in several exhibitions, including Visions in the Nunnery, Bow Arts; Queer/in/g/Nature at the Ledward Centre, Brighton; and Queer Land(s), his solo show at the James Hockey Gallery, UCA. He has run many art and spiritual workshops. He’s currently a member of Queer Religious Past, an international academic group in collaboration with Paris8 University.
