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anna andrejew: Counter-mapping the garden — reimagining space beyond extraction
Participatory workshop

This session invites participants to rethink extractive mapping through speculative practices in West’s garden, centering more-than-human elements like soil, insects, and wind. Traditionally a tool of control and human-centered narratives, mapping is reimagined here as a fluid, relational act. By revealing the garden’s hidden networks and interdependencies, the exercise resists dominant extractive perspectives, embracing uncertainty and multiplicity.
Participants explore mapping as attunement—noticing, making visible, and reimagining the ephemeral. This feminist, multi-species approach challenges fixed notions of space, foregrounding co-creation and rejecting boundaries imposed by extractivist systems. Instead, it fosters a dynamic, inclusive way of seeing.

Ursula Biemann: Forest as a Field of Mind
Conversation and discussion
A conversation with Ursula Biemann on her aesthetic approach that intertwines scientific, personal, and phenomenological perspectives, crafting a multidimensional lens to explore interspecies relations across local, global, and planetary contexts, including the Amazonian rainforests and Arctic icescapes.

Ursula Biemann: Deep Weather
Screening
Deep Weather comprises ‘Carbon Geologies’, set in the tar sands of the boreal forests of Northern Canada, and the ‘Hydro Geographies’ of the near-permanently flood-threatened Bangladesh. The connection is pursued through two narratives, one about oil, the other about water – vital ‘ur-liquids’ that form the undercurrents of all narrations as they are activating profound changes in the planetary ecology.

Isabel Cavalho: U Project
Roundtable presentation
In the U project, we explore the decommissioned uranium mines of Urgeiriça, Viseu, Portugal, through an ecofeminist and antispeciesist lens. Our approach combines artistic research with scientific investigation, aiming to understand the local community’s fight for memory preservation and resistance to environmental harm. We work closely with the community, collecting ashes from various sites in Urgeiriça to create a ceramic piece, symbolically inaugurating the Mining Museum they have long advocated for. These ashes also serve as a way to identify the presence of radioactivity in the land. Through this process, we reflect on the roles of women and goats as symbols of ecological and social regeneration, as well as their contributions to the "cleaning" of the mines and the care of the community. The figure of Santa Bárbara, patron saint of miners, plays a key role in our project, symbolizing the paradox of protection and destruction: while miners challenge the earth in search of resources, they depend on it for their safety. Ultimately, our project prompts a critical reflection on exploitation, care, and the right to preserve historical memory.

Chihiro Geuzebroek: Defending and caring for the bodyterritory
Performance lecture
Through song and reflection, Chihiro shares personal activist stories illustrating how the concept of Cuerpo-territorio from feminists from Abya Yala (Latin America) is encountered in different activist settings as a tool in movement spaces to enhance relational practices.

Im Go Eun: Three Circles with(in) the Whale (2021)
Screening
How much do we sense, contemplate, and react to the signals sent by the life and death of other existences? How can we open up the closed relationship we have been forming with them? How can we sustain our relationships by maintaining the tension that arises from differences, instead of disregarding or blurring such boundaries? To find the answers to these questions, the time of whales and humans dive together into a circle, a space both filled and empty at the same time.

Irene Jahn and Karolina Rupp: 12 o’clock
Performance/ Workshop
This work developed out of our research into the agency and memory of objects, their textures and tastes. How do we relate to each other through what we feel, touch, and smell? 12 o’clock is a participatory performance bringing forward biographic, domestic and playful elements. Participants are invited to freely experiment and engage with what is at hand. This is the first time that Karolina and Irene are presenting this work in progress to a public audience.This research-centred performance is their first work as a duo.

MaYa
Durational performance
Biographical performance inspired by Marina Abramovic and James Luna

Maria Mies: Global & Local (excerpts)
Screening
An edited version of a lecture Maria Mies gave in 1992

Müge Yilmaz: Resisting the state in Türkiye
In Türkiye, ecofeminists manifest themselves in grassroots movements resisting the destruction of people’s land for governmental and capitalistic constructions. We will see examples from the Kazdağları resistance (Ida Mountains) where women fight the ongoing gold mining in Çanakkale. In other initiatives, women lead seed-saving networks, organic farming cooperatives are rising in the current Anatolia, resisting both environmental destruction and patriarchal control.

Ruth Nyambura: Ecofeminist, ecosocialist, panafrican solidarity
Presentation and discussion

Philsan Omar Osman: Ecofeminism in Action: Exploring Gender, Environment, and Justice
Activist workshop
This workshop explores the principles of ecofeminism and how they enrich our understanding of gender equality, environmental protection, and social justice. We will begin with an introduction to key concepts, such as intersectionality, the relationship between patriarchy, capitalism, and environmental degradation, as well as the value of care work and community.
Next, we will move into an interactive discussion, exploring ecofeminist approaches in various contexts, including food justice, climate activism, and the decolonization of land and resources. Participants will be encouraged to share their personal experiences and insights.
This workshop provides an interactive and inclusive space to learn, share, and reflect on the powerful connections between gender equality, environmental protection, and social justice within ecofeminism.

Veronica Perales Blanco: Drawings of a body
Roundtable presentation and discussion
In the field of art, drawing has always been considered a second-class discipline. A preliminary. It is used above all to transmit ideas, to plan, to make a first approximation of a complex project, it is a preliminary on a fragile surface. Drawing is always something unfinished, ephemeral and fleeting. This is exactly where I place my art practice because … I always wanted to go, I never wanted to arrive. I never wanted to arrive as the most enriching part of artistic practice is not in the least the result, but the vertigo and the emotion of the process. Drawing a body from the body itself. One life, one body. — Ecofeminism / embodiment / animalism

Katerina Sidorova: Potato Planters II (2016)
Screening
Potato Planters II is a video installation exploring processes of grief, cultural memory loss and applied cyclical economy using a family owned potato field as a case study. Through the rhythmic cycle of planting, harvesting, and replanting, the work reflects on displacement, belonging, and the search for cultural roots. Like potatoes unearthed and replanted, humans, too, navigate disconnection from the land. This early video work is an artist’s attempt to reconnect with her origins following a family member loss through the primal act of harvesting.

Yvette Teeuwen: Presence
Durational performance
A performance without a specific beginning or end. State of being.
Pure ‘isness’ of body, natural material, earth, stillness of the moment.
As audience you can come on your own individual moment(s) to experience from the sideline this performative ’zone of presence’.

Natasha Tontey: GARDEN AMIDST THE FLAME (2022)
Screening
Garden Amidst the Flame (27 minutes, HD film, 2022) continues Tontey’s ongoing research into the ancient knowledge, technologies and cosmology of the Minahasa, an Indigenous nation in the North Sulawesi province of Indonesia. In this most recent work, the artist emphasises core Minahasa cultural beliefs in the all-encompassing equilibrium between the human and non-human. Drawing on her experience of karai, a ceremony that grants Minahasan warriors an armour of invincibility, the artist seeks to establish a queering approach towards gender, youth and ecology.

Womin
Eliana N’zualo & Margaret Mapondera: Women Hold Up the Sky
Screening and discussion
Women Hold Up the Sky tells the story of how women activists affected by mining and other forms of large-scale extractives in South Africa, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are deeply engaged in resistance and an active struggle to take back control of their land, their rights, their bodies and their lives. Journeying between these three countries, this documentary reveals the experiences and activism of women in three African countries but tells a much bigger story of the ongoing exploitation of natural resources and marginalisation of poor communities, particularly women.