Ocean, Feeling, Memory

Randi Nygård   “…and even where there is only a rustling of plants, in it there is always a lament. Because she is mute, nature mourns.”[1] Walter Benjamin   I sit there I sit there in a wet lightening movement of earth and darkness which is me in me I give up, I think Now…

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The Lost Nature

Gabriel Bogossian   In 1956, the Cuban poet José Lezama Lima (1910–1976) published Pascal and Poetry, the first of two essays where the same fragment by Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) resonates as a statement on the illuminative role of poetry: “Once true nature is lost, anything can be nature”. Known for the use of imprecise quotes…

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Advocate Of the Unheard

Nathanja van Dijk in conversation with Mikhail Karikis   From the power of sound to ecofeminism, from art to the activist imaginary: artist Mikhail Karikis and curator Nathanja van Dijk discuss Karikis’s projects Children of Unquiet (2014) and No Ordinary Protest (2018) in which the artist focuses on the post-millennial generation’s visions of the future in the…

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Navigating the Uncharted Waters

Kati Ilves in conversation with Kristina Õllek [1]   The Earth Overshoot Day—the date by which humans have used a year’s worth of the planet’s resources—gets closer with each year. It was the 29th of July this year, meaning that in only seven months the renewable biological funds were emptied. What might be called as living…

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Wet Code

Myriagon (Tuomas A. Laitinen & Jenni Nurmenniemi)   Wet Code  Through experimental merging of hydrophilic future fiction, research on more-than-human underwater communication, and hydrofeminist thought on watery embodiment, we ask questions about knowledge formation in relation to varied aquatic bodies. Within Myriagon, our shared practice, we have been looking into how languages evolve and mutate…

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