REFRAMING KINSHIP
REFRAMING KINSHIP
Cultureland AIR
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2020Reframing Kinship emerges from a series of participatory acts with the landscape that draw on necessary processes to sustain life on a Dutch polder. During the Cultureland residency, split my time between urban, Amsterdam and the rural Dutch Polder region. In Amsterdam, I collected a series of narrative interviews from female voices working directly with the topic of naturecultures in different ways to produce a small publication as a way of looking at the urban naturecultures. The conversations traversed through topics such as food systems, public space, material encounters, and gardens. In the rural, collected objects, images and films from both the urban and the rural field work will provide a way of looking at naturecultures not as binaries but as one interlaced system.
When I think about assembling and mending or rebuilding relations between culture and nature I see it as an ecology- a systemic set of relationships, an entanglement and the beauty of ecologies is that they are filled with material encounters between bodies both human and non-human.