These Seasons, a new public program initiative begins at SI on November 30th. Swiss Institute presents These Seasons, a new series of public programs that considers the increasingly unstable cadence of seasonal shifts. Entirely variable depending on one’s planetary location, intensifying or diminishing due to escalating temperatures and other extreme weathers, seasons are precarious markers of Earth’s revolutions. But seasons also are, and have always been, much more than that; they are markers of mood, aesthetics, politics and social rituals. These Seasons ventures to explore theories of nature, landscape, ecology, human and non-human life forms and climate action. Once a month, SI will host guests working in varied disciplines to present artworks, research and critical positions that engage these themes. Together, the programs will accumulate in an experimental pedagogy that generates as many questions as it does answers. For Fall, invited participants were asked to consider soil, sands and land as processors of growth and decay, sensors of crisis and receptors of biological energy. The inaugural program on November 30 will be led by Ravi Agarwal, a photojournalist, artist, curator and researcher from New Delhi. On December 14, SI will host a sculptural and sonic orchestration by Mimi Park, developed in collaboration with Anthony Sertel Dean. Additional These Seasons participants will be announced at the end of the year. Images: 1. Ravi Agarwal, Kattumaram, 2015. 2. Courtesy of Mimi Park #swissinstitute #theseseasons #raviagarwal #mimipark #anthonyserteldean