Mark your calendars for the launch of School and Oil and Water, a mail-order kit to examine your relations with petroleum through a collection of artist-made objects and activities.

Registration opens Monday October 16th at 12 noon, Eastern time.

This contemplative correspondence school takes the form of an artist book packaged in a box. Our curriculum explores these guiding questions:

- Who is oil and what does oil desire from us?

- Is oil merely a fuel source and material for humans, or could it have other reasons to exist?

- How can we practice relating to petroleum with reciprocity?

School of Oil and Water is designed to be experienced by an individual at home, over the course of a week.

The project is a limited edition of 50, produced in 2023. Once we’re sold out, there will be no more.

Over the next few weeks, we will be posting more information about the contributing artists and their process, so please stay tuned!

Creative Director: Fereshteh Toosi

Artists: Lindsey french, Ginger Brooks Takahashi & Nica Ross, Kate Joranson, Alex Young, Liz Ensz & Skye Fort, and Fereshteh Toosi

School of Oil and Water @oil_ancestors is supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s Knight New Work Award @knightfdn