Rooted Encounters: Fields, Forests and Other Imaginings +
Ecologies of Artistic Research. 8-9 November, 2022
Deep Histories Fragile Memories research group organizes a symposium on pluralist entanglements of artistic thinking with other research ecologies and considers art’s potential for making a stand within current challenges. Thinking along with philosophies of plant biology, with feminist critiques of biotechnology, colonialism, and science, with histories of plants out of place, with bark beetles and bitter roots, we explore the collaborative possibilities of ambulatory libraries, storytelling-as-method, and ecologies of listening
November 8 & 9, 2022
Program:
Nov 8, 2022 / Luca School of Arts, Brussels
Morning Session / Talks:
09h reception/coffee
09h15 – 10h Alexandra Crouwers
10h – 10h45 Sepideh Karami
Coffee
11h15 -12h Kate Briggs
12h – 12h45 Renée Turner
13h – 14h Lunch
Afternoon Session / Keynotes:
14h – 15h Paco Calvo / Planta Sapiens: Bridging the gap between plant science and the arts
15h – 16h Rachel O’Donnell / The Politics of Natural Knowing: Plant-Based Contraceptives in
Highland Guatemala
Break
16h30 – 17h30 Catalina Valdez / Perspectives on and from the third landscape
Gathering / Ambulatory Libraries
Nov 9, 2022 / Braem Pavilion, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp
10h reception/coffee
10h15 – 12h45
Fieldguides for a Preternaturalist / Wendy Morris
Windmaker / Lukas De Clerck and the aulos
Apacina. A Contemporary Herbal and Ambiguous Tale / Polyvocal Reading of Fieldguide #2 / Rachel O’Donnell, Orlando Preternaturalist and Fifteen Voices.
13 – 14h Lunch
14h – 15h Hysteries: Plant of the Damned / Walk
15h – 17h Whispers of Wind / Ecologies of listening with Els Viaene and Nele Möller