‘Gleaners and the Worms’ cultivates ways of being with landscape as we are absorbed within it rather than as a detached spectacle to observe. We look for verbs, gestures to sense our bodies in connection with soils. Head down, butt up, we turn down to the livings out of our sight: earthworms deep under. Inclined, we grow bodies of roots and waterfalls, enabling cycles and processes of regeneration.

‘Gleaners and the Worms’ started in 2021 as a collaboration between Emilie Gallier, Nina Boas and Nienke Terpsma. Together they study inclined bodies and earthworms. They develop interdisciplinary practices across performing arts, pedagogy, and visual arts. 

‘Table du Zine, Lectures Lombriciennes’ (2020-ongoing) initiated the project in 2021 and continues since. This ongoing and participatory documentation practice is bound to Les Minières, farm located in Normandy gathering regenerative agriculture and artistic practices. This practice of zine-making asks: with where do we write? How might we write with soils? What are the soils writing through us? Informed by qualities of earthworms (their tactile bodies, repetitive digestions, covering land as fertile gesture), ‘Table du zine, Lecture Lombriciennes’ involves cultivating a tactile gaze, regular collective moments of practices, and covering soils as a gesture of care.