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Alter Eco/s Nest : Un/learning From Lost to the River
Event by: Uroboros Festival, Enrique Encinas
Location: Hooters, Havelská 25, Praha 1
Online event
Talks & discussions
About event
A hybrid crossing of Uroboros & the International Ecoperformance Film Festival.
The Alter Eco/s Nest is a hybrid (online and in Prague) one day event exploring un/learning approaches, contexts and situations that attend to non-human presences and agencies within art and design.
The nest offers un/learning with non-human beings as a provocation to be challenged and re/defined by Alter Eco/s participants in the spirit of the Spanish expression “de perdidos al rio”. Roughly translated as “from lost to the river”, this saying conveys a sense of embracing uncertainty to keep on moving (and trying alternatives) with a (likely humorous) tone of resigned courage or defiance.
As part of the Uroboros 2024 theme, Nesting Across Difference, and growing from the Alter Eco/s Loop, this nest will showcase a selection of films from the International Ecoperformance Film Festival (IEFF) at the intersection of cinema, performing arts, and ecology, that investigate the tensions between environments, bodies, and ancestries in natural, urban, and virtual landscapes. We will explore un/learning meanings and processes through diverse more-than-human encounters inspired by unusual strategies, going off-track and the beauty of disfluency to address questions such as:
What role can art and design play when learners and teachers engage with the puzzling otherness of more-than-human encounters? What methods, approaches, tools, and practices are used in different knowledge sharing contexts and activities and why? What forms of knowledge exchange do these facilitate and obfuscate?
What does it mean to retain creative agency while respecting other-than-humans that limit or expand our intent in fluid and ambiguous ways? What to do when the ethics of making are in conflict with the needs for creative expression? How do we engage with the harms to humans and non-humans that emerge in these ambivalent and provocative un/learning spaces?
How to navigate the uncertainties of un/learning through more-than-human encounters inside and outside “the classroom”? How do we articulate the tensions between control and surrender or intentionality and emergence that are present while un/learning with non-human beings? What kind of change can un/learning along more-than-human encounters bring about within courses, workshops and other knowledge sharing activities? What do different forms of change require of learners, teachers and institutions to foster more livable futures?
~~~Program~~~
Alter Eco/s will unfold in three sessions. Artists and designers will showcase their IEFF films and join an open discussion weaving their work with questions and comments from onsite and online audiences.
More info regarding session themes and participants coming very soon..
This nest and its program is facilitated by Enrique Encinas and Rolf Gerstlauer with the kind support of IEFF festival directors Maura Baiocchi and Wolfgang Pannek and IEFF festival curator Mônica Bernardes.
Free entry.
The Alter Eco/s Nest is a hybrid (online and in Prague) one day event exploring un/learning approaches, contexts and situations that attend to non-human presences and agencies within art and design.
The nest offers un/learning with non-human beings as a provocation to be challenged and re/defined by Alter Eco/s participants in the spirit of the Spanish expression “de perdidos al rio”. Roughly translated as “from lost to the river”, this saying conveys a sense of embracing uncertainty to keep on moving (and trying alternatives) with a (likely humorous) tone of resigned courage or defiance.
As part of the Uroboros 2024 theme, Nesting Across Difference, and growing from the Alter Eco/s Loop, this nest will showcase a selection of films from the International Ecoperformance Film Festival (IEFF) at the intersection of cinema, performing arts, and ecology, that investigate the tensions between environments, bodies, and ancestries in natural, urban, and virtual landscapes. We will explore un/learning meanings and processes through diverse more-than-human encounters inspired by unusual strategies, going off-track and the beauty of disfluency to address questions such as:
What role can art and design play when learners and teachers engage with the puzzling otherness of more-than-human encounters? What methods, approaches, tools, and practices are used in different knowledge sharing contexts and activities and why? What forms of knowledge exchange do these facilitate and obfuscate?
What does it mean to retain creative agency while respecting other-than-humans that limit or expand our intent in fluid and ambiguous ways? What to do when the ethics of making are in conflict with the needs for creative expression? How do we engage with the harms to humans and non-humans that emerge in these ambivalent and provocative un/learning spaces?
How to navigate the uncertainties of un/learning through more-than-human encounters inside and outside “the classroom”? How do we articulate the tensions between control and surrender or intentionality and emergence that are present while un/learning with non-human beings? What kind of change can un/learning along more-than-human encounters bring about within courses, workshops and other knowledge sharing activities? What do different forms of change require of learners, teachers and institutions to foster more livable futures?
~~~Program~~~
Alter Eco/s will unfold in three sessions. Artists and designers will showcase their IEFF films and join an open discussion weaving their work with questions and comments from onsite and online audiences.
More info regarding session themes and participants coming very soon..
This nest and its program is facilitated by Enrique Encinas and Rolf Gerstlauer with the kind support of IEFF festival directors Maura Baiocchi and Wolfgang Pannek and IEFF festival curator Mônica Bernardes.
Free entry.