Hosts: Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky, artist, and Sina Ribak, researcher for ecologies and the arts
How do you extract natural resources from the land when the peoples whose territory you're on
believe that those plant, animal and minerals have both spirit and therefore agency? Leanne Simpson
The interdisciplinary scholar Banu Subramaniam refers to Leanne Simpson and other indigenous, feminist, and queer researchers and activists to narrate the violent history of Botany. We dedicate a second session to the book Botany of Empire: Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism to learn about the colonial project - and botany as a study of plants without their kins, their soil and their people.
Between Us and Nature is an ongoing reading club. Currently it follows the labyrinthine histories of colonialism and how it transformed plant worlds into biological knowledge. 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.
TIME: We start at 18:30. We have 2 hours of reading together.
Come and join us with an open mind:
