We acknowledge that it is not just the land that is broken, but more importantly, our relationship to the land. We are addressing Krater’s design challenge by focussing on the following question: ‘What kinds of tools and sensibilities enable us to recognize and listen to the diversity of Krater’s living beings and their various entanglements?’
We bridge and connect art~ecology~embodiment by creating multispecies community gatherings based upon sensibility and radical ritual.
Feral Species and ecosomatics Manifesto:
We see great urgency for new ways and practices of care that form a bridge to first explore the relationship between human and other-than-human bodies (multispecies and land/soil). Before designing or conceptualizing any spatial plans, we first need to acknowledge our human (and other-than-human) bodies and consciously acknowledge our surrounding ecology, clearly realizing the effect we have on it.
First, we need to become members of the whole again (re:membering). From this sensitizing experiment, an embodied language emerges of interbeing. Taking inspiration from the first permaculture principle: observe & interact. This intervention aims to tackle a design mistake often made: overlooking and not including multispecies ecologies by simply ‘problem solving’. By sensitizing and observing before designing, we allow our worldview to broaden and become part of the Earthly community.
Many of the crises of our times emerge from the breakdown of the human-Earth relationship within a dominant, western culture; respect and reciprocity have been replaced by exploitation and extraction, community by consumerism. To navigate through uncertainty and change we need to first of all inhabit a broader understanding of how things got to be ’the way they are’ so we are better equipped to embrace complexity. Practices that reawaken our sense of belonging to a vibrant web of life are vital to ground and orient us in this context. The Zoöp model connects to a new language that needs to arise, in order for our culture to adopt and embody the paradigm of interbeing.
In an age when the Eurocentric fiction of individuality has deranged our ability to tend to the environments within which we are embedded, it seems important to soften our boundaries: intellectually and bodily. We do this through public space interventions that invite the broader public of Ljubljana and beyond to connect to Krater and other feral spaces in the urban city landscape.
Feral Palacers:
Sieta van Horck (NL), Andreja Benedejčič (SI), Rens Spanjaard (NL), Tina Božak (SI).
