Finissage 'i fell in love with Nirono mountains.'

As i fell in love with Nirono mountains. draws to a close, we invite you to a finissage that opens space for dialogue and embodied experience. The evening begins with a conversation led by Takako Hamono, joined by a guest speaker (to be announced) and the audience, to explore the question:

How can creative approaches—drawing from diverse cultural and disciplinary backgrounds in both the humanities and life sciences—enrich the ongoing regeneration of the Satoyama landscape in Nirono?

Together, we will reflect on how transformations in our perception and in our practices of imagining and inhabiting landscapes can reframe our roles as humans in relation to nature, memory, and place.

The conversation will flow into a performative act, Dance Water, guided by Jija Sohn, a Japanese-Korean choreographer whose recent work delves into the theme of water as a medium of connection, fluidity, and transformation. Invited by Takako for her sensitivity to ecological and bodily processes, Jija will lead the audience in a collective movement experience that responds to the exhibition’s themes and the elemental rhythms of Nirono.

Programme

17.00 - 17.10 Welcome by Alice Smits, director zone2source

17.10 - 17.25 Presentation of the exhibition and background of the project by Takako Hamano

17.25 - 17.45 Presentation by Marjolijn van der Loo + Q&A

Marjolijn’s contribution draws on the Katsura tree as a guide in rehearsing what she calls Vegetal Curating—an exercise in listening to plants as witnesses and teachers, to imagine relational ecologies and unlearn colonial narratives.

17.45 - 18:05 Presentation by Lada Hršak + Q&A

Lada Hršak’s talk will follow a climb on Velika Kapela mountain (HR) reflecting on the notion of embodied and situated knowledge.

18.05 - 18.30 Dialogue between Takako, Marjolijn and Lada with audience participation around art science practices for regenerative field work

18.30 - 19.00 Dance water / invitation for collective blind walk by Jija Sohn

19.00 - Drinks

Biography

Marjolein van der Loo is a Dutch curator, researcher, and artist whose practice explores ecological relationships, collective learning, and embodied knowledge. Through long-term collaborations with plants, landscapes, and communities, she develops exhibitions, workshops, and publications that weave storytelling and sensory experience.As Curator of Contemporary Art and Heritage at Museum Het Nieuwe Domein and Associate Curator at Onomatopee, she fosters alternative ways of relating to one another, to place, and to the more-than-human world. Her work centers on care, reciprocity, and resistance to extractive systems, seeking relational rather than rational approaches to ecology and culture.

Lada Hršak is an architect, researcher, and founder of Bureau LADA (Landscape, Architecture, Design, Action), a cross-disciplinary studio working between Amsterdam, Zagreb, Cairo, and Tangier. Framing itself as a feminine spatial practice, the studio engages with spatial justice, social ecology, and inclusive design through projects in architecture, research, and education. Hršak’s work explores shallow-water territories, Mediterranean spatial practices, and urban glossaries, published in the award-winning Shallow Waters and Tangier Glossary. She co-founded the Spatial Justice for Palestine Network NL, advises on cultural and spatial initiatives, and teaches at the Design Academy Eindhoven, the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague (KABK), and the Academy of Architecture Amsterdam. Bureau LADA’s projects have been presented internationally at the Venice Architecture Biennale, African Crossroads, and IABR.

Jija Sohn is a Japanese- Korean artist based in Amsterdam. Since 2019, she has dedicated her work and practice to exploring human connections and relations. These projects have become her way to look inside into our human nature, recognising and embracing all our flaws and strengths, making them into an intimate portrait of how we are as people alone and together. To know more: www.jijasohn.com.