Name: Art and Society Through Feminist Degrowth
Start: 2025-04-30T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-04-30T16:30:00+02:00
Location: Kulturhuset Islands Brygge

Art and Society Through Feminist Degrowth
Performative and Collaborative Conversations with Degrowth activist scholar Anitra Nelson
Kulturhuset Islands Brygge, April 30, 3:00–4:30 PM
The Syndicate of Creatures and Kulturhuset Islands Brygge in collaboration with CApE and Anitra Nelson invite you to an immersive event combining performative readings, communal conversations, and a feminist Degrowth perspective on radical change moderated by Rebecca L. Rutt.
*This event will be in English
Through artistic expressions and embodied engagement with various perspectives of feminist Degrowth, we will explore the simple but radical notions of care, commons, and creativity, and how they question dominant structures of western society and economy. How can art help as a catalyst for systemic transformation? How do feminist Degrowth perspectives challenge extractivist paradigms and offer new ways to think about value, sustainability, and community? Join us for this gathering, where ideas will flow and imagination will become a tool for change.

Bios:
Anitra Nelson is an activist scholar affiliated with University of Melbourne (Australia) and Degrowth Central Victoria.
Her degrowth publications include co-editing Housing for Degrowth (2018) and Food for Degrowth (2021) and the Routledge Handbook on Degrowth (due out June 2025) and co-author with Vincent Liegey of Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide (2020). See https://anitranelson.info/
Fellow degrowther Rebecca Rutt, assoc. prof and active in the University of Copenhagen Degrowth Network. (Situated in environmental critical feminist theory, Rebecca has made scholar-activist contributions to the streets, degrowth festivals in Copenhagen, and more.)
The syndicate of creatures: “We are KRÆ. We are creatures. While the capitalistic autocannibliism devours our nature, feasts on all living creatures and living growths; while we humans becomes a bottomless gap of insatiable needs, in a splintered world, where reflection hurts as the world is spinning in the wrong direction; we turn into disturbing creatures – creatures identifying with critters and growths, emerging as beings of the earth.”
tSoC is built around a core of three artists/curators/researchers and art theorists, and we collaborate with a wide range of professionals. tSoC consists of visual artist and art theorist Nanna Gro Henningsen, human ecologist and performer Michelle Appelros, and visual artist, activist and curator Signe Vad.
We create exhibitions, events, workshops, and intervention projects on topics related to our main focus: rethinking how we inhabit this planet. tSoC is the initiators behind the Degrowth Festival in Copenhagen 2023 and 24, and members of International Degrowth Network.
Center for Applied Ecological Thinking (CApE) is a humanistic research center located in the green community 'Læderstræde 20'. CApE was established to bring humanistic climate and environmental research into play in current debates and concrete transition challenges.
Through partnerships and cross-sectoral engagements, the center focuses on bringing humanistic perspectives into public conversations and thereby nuancing the common knowledge base about the ecological crises, climate-changing living conditions and how we create meaningful futures. CApE is affiliated with the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Copenhagen, contributing research in fields such as philosophy, literature, history, aesthetics, and ethnography.
We are committed to making humanistic environmental and climate research widely accessible to the public. Our profile is therefore focused on talks, workshops, seminars, laboratories, and debates. We also produce the podcast, Eco Thoughts, and publish both classic and innovative written research-based products.