07 March–02 June 2024 Usufructuaries of earth A project in three chapters: an exhibition by Marwa Arsanios (7 March–2 June 2024), reading groups and online publication (ongoing), and a convention (24–25 May 2024) Propositions for Non-Fascist Living Propositions for Non-Fascist Living
07 March–02 June 2024 Usufructuaries of earthChapter one: exhibition The exhibition foregrounds the artist’s collaborative approach to bringing together ecological, feminist, and decolonial knowledges and practices that put forward ideologies of usufruct, unhinging property-relations from the idiom of individuated possession and toward forms of common userships between humans and other-than-humans. Propositions for Non-Fascist Living Propositions for Non-Fascist Living
7 March 2024-Ongoing Usufructuaries of earthChapter two: reading groups and online publication These reading groups are held in the lead-up to the convention to learn together histories and propositions of usufruct that are then further unpacked during the working groups and public program of the convention. Propositions for Non-Fascist Living Propositions for Non-Fascist Living
24-25 May 2024 Usufructuaries of earthChapter three: convention The convention in the context of the project Usufructuaries of earth is a two-day gathering that summons different practices of non-expropriative userships in relation to land, housing, social reproduction, agriculture, and knowledge. Propositions for Non-Fascist Living Propositions for Non-Fascist Living
21/03/2024 Usufructuaries of earth Micro-Resistances: An Interview with Samanta Arango Orozco Marwa Arsanios, Samanta Arango Orozco In the context of Usufructuaries of earth, which calls for a relationship of usufruct with the earth—making “use” of its offers without exhaustion or greed—this interview between artist Marwa Arsanios and Grupo Semillas member Samanta Arango Orozco highlights Indigenous communities’ strategies that “entail ways to inhabit [their] territory without affecting it intensely and in ways that protect it . . .” Through traditional and intergenerational knowledge around the seeds and lands of the region, its people, and particularly, its women, have resisted very powerful groups and social actors—reconnecting, via generous seed-gifting, territories that had previously been separated by conflict.
15/03/2024 Usufructuaries of earth Ecological Catastrophe: Nature Talks Back Pelşîn Tolhildan “We are in the siege of a nature that has been hurt, divided, defiled, poisoned, harmed, and made to bleed,” writes Pelşîn Tolhildan, member of the Kurdish Women’s Movement. Responding to a planetary ecology which has been manipulated and irreparably damaged by humankind, “Ecological Catastrophe: Nature Talks Back” gives animacy and agency to nature. It […]
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