Events

Feral Ways of Making Sense with More-than-human Worlds

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By Markéta Dolejšová, Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, and Chewie(contact: marketa.dolejsova@aalto.fi) Poster presented at the Society of Artistic Research – 15th International Conference on Artistic Research – 2024. At the centre of the Open Forest Collective’s practice-based inquiry is our common interest in the more-than-human – to recognise the relations that bring to life humans and nonhumans,… Continue reading Feral Ways of Making Sense with More-than-human Worlds

Weaving the Feral – at Uroboros 2023

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Our Cabinet of Feral Data Curiosities was shown at the Feral Bodies, Synthetic Rituals exhibition organised as part of the Uroboros 2023 festival in Prague Petrohradská Kolektiv – Jedna Dva Tři Gallery. The Cabinet is an interactive installation presenting our ongoing investigation of feral ways of knowing, being, and living-with diverse more-than-human ecologies. On display… Continue reading Weaving the Feral – at Uroboros 2023

Feral Drifting with Lonja Wetlands: Introducing Feral Fragments

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The Feral Drifting with Lonja Wetlands drift involved a 4-day feral, performative investigation of multispecies relations and spatio-temporalities of care that shape the flow of life and death in Lonjsko Polje (or Lonja Wetlands), the largest protected wetlands in Croatia. Together with 19 participants, we experimented with feral ways of sensemaking that invite open-ended, multisensory,… Continue reading Feral Drifting with Lonja Wetlands: Introducing Feral Fragments

Weaving the Feral – Cabinet of Feral Data Curiosities at Helsinki Design Week

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Our interactive installation Weaving the Feral: Cabinet of Feral Data Curiosities sprouted at the Living-with Feral Ecologies festival organised within the Helsinki Design Week 2023 public program. The festival presented a series of performative events, workshops, and exhibition interventions exploring feral ways of knowing, caring and relating that shape the flow of life and death… Continue reading Weaving the Feral – Cabinet of Feral Data Curiosities at Helsinki Design Week

Call: Feral Drifting with Lonja Wetlands

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Feral Drifting with Lonja Wetlands – Open Forest Collective’s performartive drift at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia organised as part of the discursive program of the Croatian Pavilion – Same as it Ever Was.  The event will involve a feral, performative investigation of multispecies relations and spatiotemporalities of care that… Continue reading Call: Feral Drifting with Lonja Wetlands

A walk with Lullymore West Bog

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We had the pleasure to attend an experimental walk with the Lullymore West Bog in the Irish Peatlands led by Martina O’Brien. More bog-walking is coming soon!  

Open Forest @ the Forest Multiple symposium and Smart Forest Radio

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The nice people from the Smart Forest project had invited us to talk about Open Forest at their symposium in Cambridge last year. They have now made a nice podcast episode from the presentation that can be heard at their Smart Forest Radio. https://atlas.smartforests.net/en/radio/the-forest-multiple-andrea-botero/

Walking with SMEAR II – what did the cloud whisper to the forest canopy?

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What does a sensor say when it walks into a forest? And where are all the squirrels? 🐿️🌲 On November 13th, 2022 we organized another performative walk with one of our favorite forest patches: the SMEAR II research forest in the historical Hyytiälä forestry field station in Juupajoki. If you have followed our activities by now… Continue reading Walking with SMEAR II – what did the cloud whisper to the forest canopy?

Bohemian walks at Uroboros Festival

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Once again, Chewie from the Open Forest Collective led an experimental forest walk through/with the protected landscape area of Křivoklátsko (CZ) on the 9th of October 2022. The walk was part of a longer 2-days field trip organized in the framework of Uroboros festival so there were more participants this time, than the usual dog-human pair of our previous walks… Continue reading Bohemian walks at Uroboros Festival

Open Forest @ Shieldfield Art Works Gallery (PDC2022)

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Open Forest was part of the Exhibition Embracing Cosmologies organized around the Participatory Design Conference 2022. We planted an interactive installation at the Shieldfield Art Works gallery in New Castle. During the exhibition we organized two experimental walks around the Ouseburn area which was just around the corner from the exhibition space. Locals and conference… Continue reading Open Forest @ Shieldfield Art Works Gallery (PDC2022)