Covering with Earthworms: A little bit of everything

Covering, with earthworms is a study of the zine des Minières, an ongoing collective and participatory documentation practice. The zine partly appears to the reader as animated gif (online version) or as a scrolling collection of images (PDF version). When read in performance, the zine pages physically covers soils, inviting readers aboveground while invoking presences underground. Within regenerative farming, covering a soil (a future vegetable bed for instance) is to feed it with organic matter. The decomposition caused by the covering matter feeds earthworms who plough the underground. The article experiments with forms of decomposition of the zine, covering our eyes, and being digested through us, with soils.