Between Us and Nature – A Reading Club #46 - The Real Body of Life & Death: Mats, Bacteria, Sun and Love

We are looking forward to reading together this Friday, 22nd of September at the Climate Care Festival - Critterkratia at the floating university. Inspired by floating’s hybrid infrastructure, at the start of the reading, Lynn Margulis’ ‘Symbiotic Planet’ transports us to the shores, lagoons and salt flats that the biologist has studied deeply to form her revolutionary theories and symbiotic worldview. Next, the passages by Robin Wall Kimmerer add manifold lenses relating botany with emotional intelligence and spiritual ways of knowing. Finally, the engagement in these worlds, ultimately, is love. Passing on the offering by Florian Carl and Jenni Laiti whose intention is “to nourish braver spaces”, we are looking forward to reading and nurturing correspondences together.

Between Us and Nature is an ongoing reading club that chooses texts related to natural sciences, art, anthropology, postcolonialism and the (post)anthropocene from a eco-feminist perspective. Attendees read passages together out loud, and share experiences and thoughts about the nature they live in. Looking beyond disciplines, the group creates a space to learn from and with bacteria, algae, fungi, soil and multinaturalist narratives.

NOTE the TIME: We start at 17:00 CEST. We have 1 hour of reading together.

Come and join us with an open mind here:
What:​ The Reading Club is in English language
Where​: FLOATING E.V., LILIENTHALSTRASSE 32, 10965 BERLIN
When:​ Friday 22nd of September, 2023 17:00 CEST (sharp!
Hosts:​ Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky, artist, and Sina Ribak, researcher for ecologies and the arts in collaboration with Climate Care Festival - Critterkratia and Zabriskie Buchladen für Kultur und Natur.