Cultuurhaven x The EcoBody Collective #9

GATHERING 9 weeding: Worlds Otherwise - embodying alternative ways of being
Guest: Agustina Solera
Hosts: Karolina Rupp & Irene Charlotte Jahn

Dancing in a circle is an old ritual, a way to gather. For ages, people everywhere have danced around a center. These dances revive this ancient form of coming together. Whether traditional or with popular origins: they express a culture’s shared memory. Each dance uses steps and music to "tell a story" about a community. The center represents the whole, where all gazes converge. From there, we will reflect on what happens beyond words, on collective memory and ways of relating otherwise.

Bio: Agustina Solera investigates processes of dialogue between cultures based on the idea of ‘Knowledge Dialogue'. Her approach is sustained on interaction with different cultural groups (popular, rural and indigenous communities) that have ‘other’ routes (mainly experiential and collective action) that are key in the process of critical and epistemological review. Based on tools developed by Critical Epistemologies (specifically de-colonial ones), her research looks into the gnoseological dimension of cultural practices of habitat, with the purpose of recovering historically silenced senses.

The EcoBody Collective is back with a second iteration of their gatherings, called ecobodying (a verb rather than noun) in an attempt to widen even more what ecofeminism can literally do. In other words, a little shift away from Ecobodyism towards ecobodying.

In the upcoming four sessions in November and December we will welcome one guest per gathering who will guide us through the evening. This time, the EcoBody Collective invited researchers from the Erasmus University Rotterdam to fill the spaces at WEST Den Haag with embodied content and to discover non-linear ways of sharing their knowledge. They will build on previous dialogues and experiences seeking to explore different methods of putting academia, art and activism in dialogue with each other. All together we will be connecting the dots between different strands of political ecology, decoloniality, and ecofeminism—all to be experienced in an accessible, embodied manner.

Each event includes a shared meal.

18:00 Come if you’d like to engage in embodied cooking.
19:00 Join for the meal
19:30 Start of program
21:30 End of gathering

Any body is welcome.