LISTENING ENTANGLEMENTS

The 3-day workshop and event series “Intimate Assemblages: #1 Ecologies” aimed to delve into diverse organisms and conditions inherent in artistic production and presentation processes, exploring issues of assemblages, coexistence and relationalities. Simultaneously, it raised questions about the roles visual artists and researchers can play in these critical times and how to position oneself within immanent ecologies that are likewise technologically and culturally mediated. The workshop questions how we, as practitioners, can be sensitive in interacting with different ecologies, technologies, and cultural practices, and wants to explore possibilities such as nonviolent extraction, disturbances and the means of labour love.

On a broader spectrum, “Intimate Assemblages: #1 Ecologies” examines tensions between individuals (including artists and participants) and institutions. Going beyond them, it examines avenues for engaged pedagogies, collective learning, and artistic ecologies that can engender new institutionalities. Therefore, this event series served as an incubator for future approaches and methodologies from both perspectives: artists for research, and institutions for not only speaking on ecologies but also becoming ecological.