Rewilding Cultures conversations: Observations on Permafrost
In the framework of the Rewilding Cultures Mobility Conversation, artist Jean Danton Laffert went to Greenland to develop his project "Observations on Permafrost". Report in photos.
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Earth-Space and Place: Reimagining Law and Place in the Earth-Space Complex Systems
In her book, Elena Cirkovic proposes an exploration of the law-making paradigm for complex interactions between the Earth system and outer space in the Anthropocene era. Here are exclusive reading notes.
The Politics of Symbiosis
We discuss here the discovery, the different understandings and their political meanings of the symbiosis phenomena through times.
Feral Living through Poetic Immersion in the Satoyama
Here, Leila Chakroun shares her experiences of a stay in a japanese satoyama, and her thoughts on an agro-ecological future inspired by it.
Building the archipelagos of the future at Island School of Social Autonomy
Report by Klara Debeljak on a collective action of Island School of Social Autonomy on the Island of Vis (Croatia) to build new ways of living together.
A fairy tale or a true possibility: traveling long distances by land and sea as a substitution for flying
Artist Johanna Sulalampi surface travelled from Finland to Cologne on a two-night trip. A realistic alternative to flying? In this text, she explores the opportunities of sustainable travel.
Underground subsistence: Feeding beings in the Andes of Ecuador
In Ecuador, in the face of violent land grabbing practices, the Andean population is resisting by safeguarding ancestral practices for their food survival.
Feral Circuits: Rewilding electro-cultures at HomeMade 2024
Reflections on a journey to the Swiss Mechatronic Art Society’s Homemade summer camp from July 27 to August 4, 2024 by Miranda Moss, laureate of the Rewilding Cultures Mobility Conversation grant.
“It takes the whole region to make the city”: territories, ecosystems and populations by Patrick Geddes
“Learn by doing”, "Think local, act global": P. Geddes (1854-1932), biologist, sociologist and urban planner, thought up the relationship between town and country and reinvented city planning.
Humuspunk: How Does Soil Prototype?
Imagining the future means anchoring practices and aesthetics in the movement and phenomena observable in the soil. The life that animates humus shows the matrix of all creativity.
Planetary Peasants, Werkleitz festival celebrates the 500th anniversary of the German Peasants’ War
This text is an introduction to the exhibition Planetary Peasants at Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle, about the evolution of peasantry in Germany from Thomas Müntzer's Peasants War (15th century) to our times.
Sharing open-source knowledge: from Do-It-Yourself electronics to artist-run associations
Belarusian artist Maryia Kamarova was the 2024 winner of the Rewilding Cultures Mobility Conversation grant. She recounts her summer on the move for Makery.
A telltale of Sarjapura Curries and associated art space SARLA in Bangalore
Over the past 10 years, artist Suresh Kumar G has set up a community village in Bangalore, India, where agro-ecology and artistic activities are practiced.
Helping migrant people to settle into agriculture and crafts in France
The Association A4 helps migrant people to settle projects in agriculture and crafts. Presentation.
Kerminy, a Space for Agriculture in Arts: Weathered Esthetics
We're experimenting with artistic and agricultural practices at Kerminy. Sonifying natural elements, caring for living things, self-building - we're working towards a concrete utopia.
Cultivamos Cultura: down the bio-art rabbit hole
From July 1 to 19, Cultivamos Cultura held its bio-art Summer School in Sao Luis, Portugal. Roger Pibernat, Makery's resident columnist for the Feral Labs Network, was there.
Plantation Planet
We are living in the Plantationocene, the agro-political order born of decades of post-colonial history. What does this mean, and what are the ways for abandoning this deadly system?
David Legrand’s Transmutatiographe: Transdisciplinary poetics of space
David Legrand's Transmutatiographe proposes a collaborative experience within multiple universes. The exhibition runs until June 30, 2024 at La Chaufferie, HEAR, Strasbourg, France.
Rewilding Cultures with Andrew Gryf Paterson: leaving comfort zones and academically clean spaces (1/2)
Laureate of the Rewilding Cultures mobility grant, Andrew Gryf Paterson was able to embark on a slow travel from Finland to Serbia and Montenegro, to investigate what it means to be a climate migrant. Part 1.
The Anthropocene Bomb
For 15 years, a workgroup of the International Union of Geological Sciences has tried to establish scientific foundations of the Anthropocene as a new geological epoch. An inside vote in last March has suddenly undermined its all work and conclusions, and raised a debate among scientists. What interests and ideologies are at stake? Makery maps the controversy.