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Soft Soil – Ecopoetic Conversations
Dear friends, fellows, colleagues, and all those interested, we warmly invite you to our upcoming online session on the 11th of December within the framework of Songs of Serpents – Ecopoetic Zones hosted by Künstlerhäuser Worpswede: Soft Soil – Ecopoetic Conversations brings together two thinkers - Suza Husse and Prof. Dr. Elena Zanichelli - in dialogue with our Songs-of-Serpents Fellows Sophie Seita and Marina Naprushkina. Soft Soil points to those porous, unstable, yet generative zones where memory sediments, knowledge seeps, and ecofeminist imaginaries take root. From queer-feminist, art-historical, mythopoetic, and anti-colonial perspectives, we will explore how new forms of ecological knowledge, relationality, and resistance might emerge. We look forward to your participation! Join here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84975776460?pwd=HQj4TT1jdbSeeZtW6zlr6MSU8SikKx.1
Meeting-ID: 849 7577 6460 Kenncode: 834333
Songs of Serpents establishes a transnational platform for networking and knowledge exchange with residency partners in Albania, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, and Ukraine. It connects local perspectives and initiatives and enables new artistic projects at the interface of art, ecology, and ecofeminism(s). Each participating location features historically, mythically, and politically charged landscapes with their own local characteristics as well as ecological and political realities.
Speakers Suza Husse Curator, researcher, and writer working at the intersections of queer ecology, dissident mythopoetics, and embodied storytelling. Through District* School Without Center and The Many Headed Hydra, Suza develops collaborative, anti-colonial, and fluid practices situated between art, activism, and speculative poetics. Since 2024 they coordinate the transdisciplinary arts and research platform Sensing Peat for peatland ecologies and cultures at the Michael Succow Foundation / Greifswald Mire Centre and co-organise the Venice Agreement for Peatlands. Prof. Dr. Elena Zanichelli Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Philipps-University Marburg. Former Gerda Henkel Guest Professor at Stanford University (2022) and previously Junior Professor at the University of Bremen, where she co-directed the Mariann Steegmann Institute. Art & Gender. Her research interests include the intersections between (contemporary) art and feminism, Visual Culture, and the value and consumption of privacy in the arts. She is currently working on a research project entitled "Family Values. On the visual re-articulation of a rather conflictual model". With our Songs-of-Serpents Fellows Sophie Seita & Marina Naprushkina Working in very different artistic modes, both Fellows root their research in the program’s “ecopoetic zones” — landscapes where vulnerability, regeneration, mythology, and political agency converge. Through their distinct approaches, they open poetic, performative, conceptual, and activist pathways for engaging ecological crises and imagining new forms of solidarity, care, and collective resistance. PM us for the LINK!
Partners: JUNGE AKADEMIE @akademiederkuenste @nidaartcolony @kuenstlerhaeuserworpswede @asortymentna_kimnata @villamassimo.de
The project is funded by and developed with Schering Stiftung @scheringstiftung (main partner), the Stiftung Stark für Gegenwartskunst and the Landschaftsverband Stade #landschaftsverbandstade.
Graphic design: @basics09
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Summer party on 24.08.2024
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Dear friends, fellows, colleagues, and all those interested, we warmly invite you to our upcoming online session on the 11th of December within the framework of Songs of Serpents – Ecopoetic Zones hosted by Künstlerhäuser Worpswede: Soft Soil – Ecopoetic Conversations brings together two thinkers - Suza Husse and Prof. Dr. Elena Zanichelli - in dialogue with our Songs-of-Serpents Fellows Sophie Seita and Marina Naprushkina. Soft Soil points to those porous, unstable, yet generative zones where memory sediments, knowledge seeps, and ecofeminist imaginaries take root. From queer-feminist, art-historical, mythopoetic, and anti-colonial perspectives, we will explore how new forms of ecological knowledge, relationality, and resistance might emerge. We look forward to your participation! Join here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84975776460?pwd=HQj4TT1jdbSeeZtW6zlr6MSU8SikKx.1
Meeting-ID: 849 7577 6460 Kenncode: 834333
Songs of Serpents establishes a transnational platform for networking and knowledge exchange with residency partners in Albania, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, and Ukraine. It connects local perspectives and initiatives and enables new artistic projects at the interface of art, ecology, and ecofeminism(s). Each participating location features historically, mythically, and politically charged landscapes with their own local characteristics as well as ecological and political realities.
Speakers Suza Husse Curator, researcher, and writer working at the intersections of queer ecology, dissident mythopoetics, and embodied storytelling. Through District* School Without Center and The Many Headed Hydra, Suza develops collaborative, anti-colonial, and fluid practices situated between art, activism, and speculative poetics. Since 2024 they coordinate the transdisciplinary arts and research platform Sensing Peat for peatland ecologies and cultures at the Michael Succow Foundation / Greifswald Mire Centre and co-organise the Venice Agreement for Peatlands. Prof. Dr. Elena Zanichelli Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Philipps-University Marburg. Former Gerda Henkel Guest Professor at Stanford University (2022) and previously Junior Professor at the University of Bremen, where she co-directed the Mariann Steegmann Institute. Art & Gender. Her research interests include the intersections between (contemporary) art and feminism, Visual Culture, and the value and consumption of privacy in the arts. She is currently working on a research project entitled "Family Values. On the visual re-articulation of a rather conflictual model". With our Songs-of-Serpents Fellows Sophie Seita & Marina Naprushkina Working in very different artistic modes, both Fellows root their research in the program’s “ecopoetic zones” — landscapes where vulnerability, regeneration, mythology, and political agency converge. Through their distinct approaches, they open poetic, performative, conceptual, and activist pathways for engaging ecological crises and imagining new forms of solidarity, care, and collective resistance. PM us for the LINK!
Partners: JUNGE AKADEMIE @akademiederkuenste @nidaartcolony @kuenstlerhaeuserworpswede @asortymentna_kimnata @villamassimo.de
The project is funded by and developed with Schering Stiftung @scheringstiftung (main partner), the Stiftung Stark für Gegenwartskunst and the Landschaftsverband Stade #landschaftsverbandstade.
Graphic design: @basics09
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