Zones of Estrangement

A London Art Guerrilla Tour

As part of the scattered-site exhibition-event In Between Zones – A London Art Guerrilla Tour, Zones of Estrangement unfolds within Highgate Wood, an ancient woodland in North London. We approach this woodland not merely as a site but as an experimental ground—an interlocutor, a living stage upon which displacement, dislocation, and contemporary forms of spirituality are enacted.

The participating artists activate the woodland as a negotiated yet interstitial space, where the “parochial domain of ‘others’”[1] becomes sensorially tangible, relationally palpable and socially generative. The negotiation takes place between the artists and the more-than-human environment, while fissure signifies the precarious adventure of temporary spatial borrowing. The exhibited works frame displacement not as loss but as a condition for emergence; spirituality not as transcendence but as immanent encounter; and ecopoiesis not as restoration but as co-creation with the living forest.

by Nicole Zihua Zhang


Notes:

[1] Maarten Hajer & Arnold Reijndorp, In Search of New Public Domain (Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2001), p.116, quoted in Joshua Decter & Helmut Draxler (ed.), Exhibition as Social Intervention: ‘Culture in Action’ 1993 (London: Afterall Books, 2014), p. 19.

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Artists
Amanda Moraes Teixeira (Brazil)
Bhawana Jain (India)
Bunga Yuridespita (Indonesia)
Po-Yun Kuo (Taiwan)
Siqing Zhan (China)

Curator
Nicole Zihua Zhang

Graphic Designer
Ning Jiang

Guerrilla Site
Highgate Wood, Muswell Hill Rd, London, N10 3JN

Date
2-7 pm, 26 September 2025 (Friday)

Opening with a picnic.