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A cinematic multispecies encounter.The Feral Nest brings together artists, researchers, and practitioners of various backgrounds to experiment with diverse approaches to sensing – and making sense – with multispecies ecologies.
The Nest contributors – visual and performance artists, filmmakers, designers, sociologists, photographers, mushroom foragers, reindeer herders – are invited to introduce their work and share the practices, intuitions, and ways of knowing that guide their multispecies research and everyday-life inquiries.
The event is free entry and welcomes any visitors, human and others.
We will gather in the former cinema space of Petrohradská kolektiv, around a still-functional cinema screen that will serve as our shared canvas – to show audiovisual narratives, sound stories, stills, and various other formats capturing moments of multispecies co-existence, where human and other-than-human lives came together in an intentional attempt to understand and make sense with each other. The contributions shown on the cinema canvas will serve as a starting point for co-creative reflection (workshops, sensory walks, tasting sessions, storytelling games, and more) among the event participants to engage with questions such as:
~ How can we, as human researchers and practitioners, think and collaborate with other-than-humans?
~ How can we learn from – and make sense with – each other in a mutual way, beyond the unidirectional mode of humans observing and making sense of other creatures?
~ How could these engagements look, sound, smell, taste, and feel like?
The Feral Nest is co-curated by your feral hosts Markéta Dolejšová & Gloria Lauterbach. The Nest murmurations will be captured by the Uroboros friend~photographer Ondřej Hons.
Full program: https://2024.uroboros.design/feral-nest/
~~~Nest program~~~
11:00 ~ Feral Hello (And Some Notes On Feral Archiving)
By Markéta Dolejšová & Gloria Lauterbach
11:30 ~ Joy and Disgust of Tasting Differently
By Lukáš Senft
We don’t fully control our capacity to taste. Taste isn’t merely something we have; rather, it’s a practice we engage in “together with others” (Voß and Guggenheim 2019). It’s a bio-social skill, shaped by shared experiences and influences. For this reason, our taste can be influenced by products from food giants. Our expectations have been standardized by industrial food production, so we enjoy eating together under the norms set by the food industry. We’re drawn to the “unholy trinity” of salt, fat, and sugar (Moss, 2014). However, because tasting is also a social and cultural experience, our “palate” has the potential to be redefined. We can choose to move away from ultra-processed foods and take back cooking from large corporations (Pollan, 2013). This lecture and experimental tasting session explore the possibilities of reshaping our “industrial palate” (van Esterik, 2018). Is it possible to taste, eat, and drink beyond the offerings of the food giants? What might be the cost of such an endeavor? And why should we consider embracing bitterness along the way?
13:00 ~ Sensing Forest Time
By Tereza Stehlíková
The intention of this session is to try and resonate with the temporality of an ancient forest, in order to move away from the hyperactive, distracted, fragmented time that we all occupy due to our technologies. We will spend 30 minutes immersed in an ancient Dartmoor forest, mediated by an audio-visual projection. The next part will involve time spent with a physical object. The final part will involve a discussion of our experience.
15:00 ~ Manifestations / When do I exist
By Leena Valkeapää and Oula A. Valkeapää
Manifestations is a short film made of the compilation of text messages and emails sent between the authors: Leena and her partner Oula, a Sámi reindeer herder. The film allows an intimate view into the Arctic landscape, where the fates of humans and the reindeer are deeply entangled. Everyday messages and observations convey glimpses of engaged modes of knowledge in a changing life world. Through a collage of text and photo messages between Oula A. Valkeapää, a reindeer herder in the secluded fells of northern Lapland, and his partner Leena a space is created for questions to become a part of life, rejecting the need to find clear answers. Living with questions and the mystery of life provides a space for creativity and maybe even an intensive meditation on being.
16:30 Before the Deluge
By Erik Peters
We awake on an island in the middle of an endless sea. This mythopoetic island – stuck between and beyond time and space – is where all deluges birth and come to die. We follow the journey of a player who wanders the island in search of new wisdom, mysterious relics, and an escape. Who – or what – can save them from themselves? Before the Deluge traces historical and cultural perspectives from transoceanic mythologies to investigate the climate futures ahead of us, exploring which sources of knowledge we draw from in preparation for climate disaster. Flood myths, found in diverse cultures across the globe symbolising renewal and purification, intertwine with dystopian tales that depict the consequences of environmental devastation, the end of the world. Yet, the world has ended many times already. As a witness to these tragedies, we encounter the siren as an ancient shapeshifting guardian. Their merged histories lay bare the xenophobic, racist and misogynistic beliefs Western society projects throughout the passing of time.
18:30 Amphibia
By Cyane Findji
The film portrays the journey of India, a young marine biologist, and her profound connection with the sea. India’s character navigates confidence and murkiness while conducting research on sediment clouds in the archipelago. We follow her daily routine as she snorkels in the shallow waters of the Baltic Sea: the mundane yet essential aspect of her actions is tangible, emphasising the relatable nature of the scientific fieldwork. Throughout the narrative, we can sense her self-development, delving into both personal and professional dimensions. India embodies a kind of amphibious existence, seamlessly evolving between land and sea.
20:00 Regeneration
By Nikola Brabcová & Karin Šrubařová ft. David Přílučík
Regeneration is an online exhibition of the creative team of Artyčok.TV and other collaborating authors. Through artist's videos, podcasts and other (not only) artworks, the exhibition shows examples of good practice in protecting natural resources such as land. The Feral Nest session will introduce two Regeneration chapters: Unprotected Nature (David Přílučík) and Erosion (Nikola Brabcová, Karin Šrubařová).
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On Feralities:
Organised as a continuation of the Feral Fields sympoiesium and the Living with Feral Ecologies festival, the Feral Nest offers a space for co-creative experiments with feral ways of thinking and practising with multispecies ecologies. Feral ways, like the creatures who roam them, thrive beyond boundaries, in the liminal places between the wild and the domesticated, the familiar and unknown, the serendipitous and intentional. They are curvy, lively and surprising, inviting spontaneous journeys that can lead to unexpected moments in space and time. They shape and are shaped by the landscape they inhabit, inviting embodied, sensory-rich explorations, observations, and chance encounters.
Following these directions, feral ways connect diverse human and other-than-human creatures, practices, and knowledges and bring them into shared moments of co-creative, transdisciplinary inquiry.
Stay Feral <3
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Petrohradská kolektiv, Petrohradská 438/13, 101 00 Praha, Česko,Prague, Czech Republic
