17 16 #7 ReNaturing - voicing resilience of city nature by Consuelo Méndez & Nayarí Castillo Our relationship with nature is becoming more and more alienated. The very few spaces of greenery in the cities are controlled and observed, numbing our sensibility towards other organisms. These sporadic places of contact are not enough to understand and observe the rhythms and necessities of animals, plants and mushrooms. This gives a strange sense of isolation and distance from nature. We are so used to think humans are not nature. Indeed we are and we are not alone nor separated, but we are part of a gigantic conglomerate. We are interconnected. It is necessary just to call upon the senses to rebuild the bridges, the understanding that we are nature. This workshop seeks to look out for encounters with fauna, flora and fungi present in the city, aiming to give voice to those organisms that resiliently tell us with their presence that we are together. The workshop will consist, on first instance, of exercises to activate the senso-perception of urban space seeking for hints, clues, debris and traces of others. A central idea is to find our own nature in the urban landscape. Using these visions and encounters as material for inspiration, we will develop a collective mural or wall installation. This community output made of drawings, graphics, collages, images, photos, sounds and/or projections will honor the connections to the city nature of Antwerp. Two generations of artists specialized in public space will dialogue and work hand by hand with the multidisciplinary group of students, aiming to exchange and expand knowledge from their different expertise. All of this will be achieved by using different wandering methods as derivé, walking, slow-walking for moving around the city combined with registration techniques as video/photo recording, chaotic enumeration, drawing, body-perception, to grasp, record, and appropriate city nature. Our interconnectedness will then be then translated onto the wall space.
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