How does an ant perceive the smell of compost? This could be one of the more-than-human stories gathered in “The Book of the Ten Thousand Things” created for documenta15 by La Intermundial Holobiente. “Inbetweenery” is the proposal by artist Claudia Fontes, philosopher Paula Fleisner, and writer Pablo M. Ruiz to translate “intermundial” into English.
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Between Us and Nature – A Reading Club #40 – Anniversary Session: Five Years of Reading Together
When we started reading together in June 2017, we wouldn’t have expected such a commitment – from ourselves as hosts or from you as participants. We feel very lucky to have grown together into a Between Us and Nature community. This alone is a beautiful gift. For our fifth anniversary we invite you to bring a text – maybe written by yourself – that you feel is most connected to the Reading Club.
Read MoreOil Palm Research at Elia Nurvista’s Open Studio at the Jan van Eyck Academie
Jan van Eyck participant Elia Nurvista connects her installation to the ongoing collective research around the Oil Palm with Michelle Lai, Sina Ribak, and Yoeri Guépin. At the jve Open Studio, we offered a Forest Field Recording Sound Experience, a Collective Reading, and a Music Listening Session with the intention to weave conversations around and between palm oil across the globe. The ongoing research is an attempt to understand the multilayered processes of this global commodity.
Read MoreWalking as Possible Dialogues
Join members of Chocó communities, people from other parts of Colombia, Kassel and myself from Berlin for a Walk in Karlsaue. Possible Dialogues is an ongoing initiative that brings people into conversations that focus on the climate crisis. This event invites participants to walk, experience and talk about nature-culture relationships, disruptions or entanglements across communities in Chocó, Colombia, the carers of the Aue Park in Kassel, Germany and the participants of the walk and conversation. More info
Read MoreBetween Us and Nature – A Reading Club #39 – Too Heavy to Dance
Inspired by spring and reading Braiding Sweetgrass we went to pick wild garlic. Then the war broke out in Ukraine. Destruction and death fueled by greed remind us of the chapter on Windigo and Burning Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Also historian Kate Brown takes us to the Chernobyl Zone, offering a biography of a lost but unforgettable landscape.
Read MoreClimate Grief, Art and Collaborative Approaches: a conversation at GLACIER ELEGIES book launch
Much of Jaanika Peerna’s recent work is a lament to glaciers and natural ice. Her book Glacier Elegy book touches on ecological grief and looks at how Peerna and other key contemporary artists have used the subject of ice to highlight the global climate emergency. Joined by curator and podcast host Tuce Erel and researcher for ecologies and the arts Sina Ribak they will dive into a conversation about the topics covered in the book, including climate grief, art as a tool for transformation and collaborative approaches to artmaking
Read MoreA conversation about “Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire” – Book launch by Max Haiven
At the occasion of his book launch, authour Max Haiven invited Julio Linares, economic anthropologist and myself to a conversation around Palm Oil facilitated by artist and activist Cassie Thornton initiator and author of The Hologram.
Read MoreAc/kademie #7: Long Hanging Fruits: Myths and Matter of the Oil Palm Complex
Long Hanging Fruits: Myths and Matter of the Oil Palm Complex is a collective presentation by Jan van Eyck participant Elia Nurvista, Michelle Lai, Sina Ribak, and Yoeri Guépin that weaves together stories around and between palm oil across the globe as an attempt to understand the multilayered processes surrounding this global commodity.
Read MoreDer Wald – Ressource oder Produzent? / Museumsdialog zur Ausstellung „Vom Leben in Industrielandschaften”
Museumsdialog zur Ausstellung „Vom Leben in Industrielandschaften – Den Strukturwandel im Blick“ mit der Künstlerin Antje Majewski, der Forscherin für Ökologien und Künste Sina Ribak und Dr. Stephan Ebeling, Direktor des Amtsgerichts Düren, moderiert von Anja Dorn, Direktorin Leopold-Hoesch-Museum & Papiermuseum Düren.
Between Us and Nature – A Reading Club #38 / Honorable Harvest
Read MoreThe traditional ecological knowledge of indigenous harvesters is rich in prescriptions for sustainability. They are found in native science and philosophy, in lilfeways and practice but most of all in stories, the ones that are told to help restore balance, to locate ourselves once again in the circle.
Robin Wall Kimmerer