Towards Perma-Cultural Institutions: Exercises in Collective Thinking
Published by Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen
Editors Julia Haarmann & Nada Rosa Schroer
Contributors
ARCC
Giulia Bellinetti
Pau Catà
Viviana Checchia
Madeleine Collie
Clelia Coussonnet
Annalee Davis
T.J. Demos
Marianna Dobkowska
Maja and Reuben Fowkes
Yoeri Guépin
Iyawó
Michael Marder
Ela Spalding
In July 2022, I was lucky to participate in the seminar Towards Perma-Cultural Institutions: Exercises in Collective Thinking. It involved discussions in a closed group of practitioners, artists and curators, as well as public events accessible online throughout the week as well as in the form of a public day on site.
As a result, we released a compilation of texts and souvenirs in a publication. My contribution, In the Same Breath¸ looked at new methodologies of collective action in the art field and insisted on the importance of community-making and place-relating.
Participants of the seminar:
Art Residency Research Collective (Pau Catà/ Morag Iles/ Miriam La Rosa/ Patricia Healy McMeans/ Angela Serino), Giulia Bellinetti, Felipe Castelblanco, Viviana Checchia, Culture for Climate (Ewa Chomicka/ Anna Czaban), Madeleine Collie, Clelia Coussonnet , Alfred Decker, T.J. Demos, Marianna Dobkowska, Maja Fowkes & Reuben Fowkes, Yoeri Guépin, Michael Marder, Riya Matthew, Lola Malavasi Lachner, Anna Melnykova, Paloma Nana, Sour Grass (Annalee Davis/ Holly Bynoe), Ela Spalding, Stéphane Verlet Bottéro.
Community cooking by Paula Erstmann.
More about the seminar and recordings from the sessions here
Towards Perma-Cultural Institutions: Exercises in Collective Thinking
Published by Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen
Editors Julia Haarmann & Nada Rosa Schroer
Contributors
ARCC
Giulia Bellinetti
Pau Catà
Viviana Checchia
Madeleine Collie
Clelia Coussonnet
Annalee Davis
T.J. Demos
Marianna Dobkowska
Maja and Reuben Fowkes
Yoeri Guépin
Iyawó
Michael Marder
Ela Spalding
In July 2022, I was lucky to participate in the seminar Towards Perma-Cultural Institutions: Exercises in Collective Thinking. It involved discussions in a closed group of practitioners, artists and curators, as well as public events accessible online throughout the week as well as in the form of a public day on site.
As a result, we released a compilation of texts and souvenirs in a publication. My contribution, In the Same Breath¸ looked at new methodologies of collective action in the art field and insisted on the importance of community-making and place-relating.
Participants of the seminar:
Art Residency Research Collective (Pau Catà/ Morag Iles/ Miriam La Rosa/ Patricia Healy McMeans/ Angela Serino), Giulia Bellinetti, Felipe Castelblanco, Viviana Checchia, Culture for Climate (Ewa Chomicka/ Anna Czaban), Madeleine Collie, Clelia Coussonnet , Alfred Decker, T.J. Demos, Marianna Dobkowska, Maja Fowkes & Reuben Fowkes, Yoeri Guépin, Michael Marder, Riya Matthew, Lola Malavasi Lachner, Anna Melnykova, Paloma Nana, Sour Grass (Annalee Davis/ Holly Bynoe), Ela Spalding, Stéphane Verlet Bottéro.
Community cooking by Paula Erstmann.
More about the seminar and recordings from the sessions here
‘Approaching an ecosystem, a non-human entity, a person, a situation, a project, as a dance in which we learn with the other dancer, guiding and following alternately, circulating in cycles, welcoming the feedback, and adjusting. The dance is born in this encounter and resonance, as well as through deep listening and receptivity.’
‘Approaching an ecosystem, a non-human entity, a person, a situation, a project, as a dance in which we learn with the other dancer, guiding and following alternately, circulating in cycles, welcoming the feedback, and adjusting. The dance is born in this encounter and resonance, as well as through deep listening and receptivity.’
About ‘In recent years, there has been a proliferation of art exhibitions on plants and other more-than-human beings accompanied by a growing interest in environmental thinking, traditional ecological knowledge, and various forms of collective work in art institutions. At the same time, there has been a growing disillusionment with the art world itself. The western art system too perfectly seems to mimic the neoliberal economy that we all live in.
Intensifying climate change makes it clear that the cultural sector, along with all other parts of society, cannot continue in the same way as before. The ecological catastrophe that we are facing triggers a strong impulse for change. In response, the summer seminar Towards Permacultural Institutions: Exercises in Collective Thinking” reflected on how plants and permaculture can inform curatorial and institutional work beyond the superficial application of sustainability guidelines.
The publication brings together essays, reflections, exercises, prompts, recipes, reading lists and other materials to move towards relational and reciprocal practices in the art field and beyond.’
Info
Design by Pema Domingo-Barker
2022, English
88 pages, colour, softcover
Edition of 500 copies
ISBN 978-3-937828-38-1
About ‘In recent years, there has been a proliferation of art exhibitions on plants and other more-than-human beings accompanied by a growing interest in environmental thinking, traditional ecological knowledge, and various forms of collective work in art institutions. At the same time, there has been a growing disillusionment with the art world itself. The western art system too perfectly seems to mimic the neoliberal economy that we all live in.
Intensifying climate change makes it clear that the cultural sector, along with all other parts of society, cannot continue in the same way as before. The ecological catastrophe that we are facing triggers a strong impulse for change. In response, the summer seminar Towards Permacultural Institutions: Exercises in Collective Thinking” reflected on how plants and permaculture can inform curatorial and institutional work beyond the superficial application of sustainability guidelines.
The publication brings together essays, reflections, exercises, prompts, recipes, reading lists and other materials to move towards relational and reciprocal practices in the art field and beyond.’
Info
Design by Pema Domingo-Barker
2022, English
88 pages, colour, softcover
Edition of 500 copies
ISBN 978-3-937828-38-1
‘Institutions and initiatives should ask themselves how they inhabit their spaces and co-create it with
the other gardeners, human and non-human.’
— Quotes by Clelia Coussonnet, In the Same Breath, 2022
‘Institutions and initiatives should ask themselves how they inhabit their spaces and co-create it with
the other gardeners, human and non-human.’
— Quotes by Clelia Coussonnet, In the Same Breath, 2022
