Sol Archer is a Netherlands based artist working through collaboration with professional and non-professional groups, considering the encounter as a space of production. Frequently working with video, Sol is focussed on ways individuals and communities constitute themselves through their association with collective cultural activity, and how identities and histories entwine through the performance of cultural attachment.
This extends into a pedagogical practice on structures and systematising group environments focussed on self reflexive film-making practices and the legacy of collaborative film practice in relation to ethnofiction.
Currently Sol is focussed on the long haunting of the ecological imaginary by colonial image making, particularly in Dutch occupied Brazil, and the potential for reorienting representations of ecological relation through sound and music.

In Schöppingen Sol has been thinking through the long haunting of colonial histories and modes of thought in the interactions and relationships of care, devotion, dominance, commodification, and spectacle between human and other than human beings and collectivities. In particular this has been in the dominance on the land of industrial maize plantations, maize itself being appropriated from the americas during the period of intensive european settler colonialism. Surrounding Schöppingen plantation maize massively dominates the view, and the ecosystem, being grown for biofuel and animal feed, the fields are silent save for the rubbing together of arm length, sharp edged leaves, and towering above head height during the summer, traditional projections of landscape and viewpoint as a logic of relating to land by eye are obstructed. sol has worked with filming animal show spectacles, and experimenting with natural dye, photography, experiments with field recording, to play through material and formal strategies for following the tracework of animal human interactions, and the traces of lifeways in peripheries of industrial agriculture.