'We are the granddaugthers of the witches, you didn't burn' I. images she shows (slideshow) connect in specific context, we need to participate :-) is practice of storytelling constructions of 'we', fragile, situated, located in time/place, as durable as we allow it to be unless we learn to change the story, we're dead in Trumplandia this necessity never felt so urgent friendship with Isabelle Stengers in situated practises, not in systems of belief Ursula Leguin, The Birthday of the world (The Matter of Seggri): reflection on the practise of writing 'risk of telling the story' is animator of her work, story has no end, no beginning, it is all muddle/middle/earth interested in ordinary storytelling, creatures of the mud science-fiction extraterrestial visitors: hens & lemons in the back of her garden :-) Environmental Justice Octopus/Evergreen University - 'eco activist' octopus Dakota access pipeline, Standing Rock protests history of standard oil octopus 'spiders of the sea' different octopus speak to each other, across their frictions Octopi Wall Street 'we're 97% of animal diversity' we are with the other creatures of the earth, and they are 97% of us Lovelock, Gaia diversity allows the interdigitalization of systems (mineral, vegetal, geological) that constitute the earth that allows 'us' to inhabit it, metabolizing planet we're inside scientific modeling apparatus situate technological practises - from the 50s onwards we must know how to inhabit these modeling practises, not as enemy if Trump does not want to address climate change, it is because he doesn' t want to accept one has to inhabit this system creature that inhabits her: immortal Medusa no feminism without horses, close contact mask of Medusa (hangs on wall in her dining room), made of the skin of a gui dog (???palourde) -> Tentacularity tentacularity is a thinking practise, apparatus for thinking, not only metaphors or illustrations 'jeu de ficelle', dispositifs cognitives taken from mythology, science-fiction, biology Chthulucene if you learn how to greet them politely (Medusa & co), they will not kill you character of Doctor Who Hawaiian Bobtail Squid ( < biology) inhabited by bacteria, that make it look like starry sky so it can attack prey biochemistry, collecting practises at night... all these images lead to construction of a 'we' in this room: will you agree to be part of it? what kind of we is it? what responsabilities are there, what repsonse-abilities do we have? -> cultivation of the capacity to respond to the world we have inherited Pacific Day Octopus Quesiton: gender is theoretical concept climate change is interpretative apparatus that gathers many data, testimonia 'we know it is too hot for a spring day in brussels, but it is only one day' many kind of lived differences, genders is constructed, reinvented, not always been this way it is a polyform thing, it is a performance, not one that one chooses, very fleshly II. her work has been inspired by 'artists for earthly survival' working friendships Lynn Randolph: - offered the cyborg painting, in response to reading the cyborg manifesto tianman activist, spirit tiger, cosmology in background taken from biological science great deal of contemporary art that she doesn't know how to inhabit, she inhabits 'narrative' art - image of oncomouse enclosing of the genome built into corporate law painting was powerfully helpful for 'modest witness' -> books don't know where to go in the bookstore, under 'occult' most often Patricia Piccinni - Hairy Nosed Wombat in Australia, silicone fabulation forced reproduction of endangered species, specific role that females play represents the indignous people that lost land, stories. contact zones & alliances between battle of aborignials, biochemistral science, vitality, ... when you inhabit this figure - I made you inhabit her today - you can not inhabit her anymore tomorrow nobody is everywhere but everybody is somewhere and those somewheres connect all 'us' belong to several kinds of 'we' when we inhabit this, we have changed we enlarge the world that authors these questions - The Long Awaited (2008) xenoecologies for 'becoming with' in an experimental life all of her work has to do with meetings - Decolonizing Constant Zones female ballone whale flies over territory near Sidney pregnant skywhale, needs to go to water for the baby to be born milk has to produce a lot of gas in the water so it could fly up with the mother :-) -> artists don't make me think about history of art, but make her think about connections in the world Baila Goldenthal - Cat's cradle paintings as a methodology of thinking Chthulucene, painting of 5m, in honour of sybmiogenesis (creatures eating each other and (in)digestion) Margaret and Christine Wertheim, Crochet Coral Reefs made of of trash Brisbane, Great barrier Reef began to crochet hyperbolic forms, instructed by mathematician they combine fiber arts, ecological activism, feminism, ... more than 10000 people have participated in making these Reef, and learned maths while doing crochet Helen Bernasconi & Vonda McIntyre, Excess Surface for Eartly Survival Daniel Doherty, Bird man of the MIssion homeless man himself, painted another homeless and how he feeds the pigeons helped her think abotu 'multispecies environmental practise' in the city Paulette Metuq, Inuit ringed seal (natsig) a seal that contains its people, its histories and within that framework makes the claim that indigenous hunting of seal is essential for their survival -> international printmaking, google 'contemporary inuit art' she needs image to be inside contradictions, makes her think of Stengers' notion of cosmopolicits, the world is not a 'one' Geraldine Javier, cover of Staying with the trouble we're not posthumans, we're compost she uses artists, they use her art workings: drawn by stories, a work provoques her to tell stories, the work also comes form storytelling people singing/activism/drawing all live together, it pulls her into their world we inherit responsabilities of community/place where we are born 'thinkingmaking' is one word thinking is making practise, making is thinking practise talking is thinkingmaking practise textuality in philosophy is materialist, take the forms of speaking and writing how she works with contradictions? 'ro speak against', to put into friction, to put face to face, to excavate from what appears to be non-contradictory likes to think about dialectics as a 'machine' for thinking practise she want toolbox to be big, but want the little thinking machines ot make noise! she wants to hear them break down... makes her become promiscuous III. Learning with Dogs Jim's Dog in Modest Witness not innocent beings, complex beings recently had nightmares because of dog eating production factories in Indonesia not worse than eating pigs/chicken/octopus... but I am inhabiting dogs her dog flew in from Taipei, streetdog, this makes her care about streetdogs, need to know about them every time we touch somebody we are made to care differently -> friendship provoques curiosity, curiosity provoques connecting, inquiring dogs expand our connections Leonardo's dog Dog of perfect proportions important when she was writing about convergence of art, technoscience, genomics... Pintacanes, Cyborg quiltro (Santiago de Chile) papier mache problematics of those living on the streets, including dogs Field practises for Therioethnographers, Raised by Wolves 'wandering at the edge of the forest, I was raised by biologists (or animals)' dog is the risk of someone new who we don't know well yet she is our first team sport, 'becoming-with' it is herding without sheep, physioballs (?) dogs teach her about play, coming into the open when entities play with each other, the tae risks about what is not open yet dog playing is calligrpahy tree inheriting dead tree Anna Tsing, the mushroom at the end of the world http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10581.html anna is in love with trees, in sybiosis with mushrooms, trees under the ground cultivation in mondial market, produced in US eaten in japan how to engage in practises of protection... national parks dispossession of native people when wolves come in, multispecies forest can recover, this changes the way of walking/hunting with the trees indispensable companion species my first attention goes to animals, but all animals live in worlds that are full with plants IV. Cartoons for Earthly Survival Orchids relationship between insect and plant, rethinking Darwin through involutionary momentum Chthulucene Sciences fundamental apparatus of lust she is 'ecotparasite living in the body of scientists' bee pollinating this orchid is extinct we're brought to think about extinction, non-human exceptionalism Dan Piraro's Bizarro V. Animé and Digital Storytelling Miyazaki's Nausicaa & Anna Tsing think together 'om', gian entity that is angry peacemaking in a toxic forest Never Alone, computer game by E-Line Games stories from Alaska in their language active peace making contemporary & traditional story but what good are old stories if you don't share them games as thinking practises work can trasnform her, not always the makers sometimes only relationship is thorugh copyright contract property = bundles of rights of access tholocene (?), word she invented, each word is a storytelling apparatus < thonic (in and out the earth), earth that is not finished, in its powers and processes of creation adn deconstruction < kinos, kinos as endurance, space-time is in question, different kinds of scalings synthetical chemical industries, fossil fuel energies have so changed the equations in the world, into ongoing irreversible system change, there will be homeostasis but not hose of yesterday could have been capitalocene we're not limited to infernal alternatives, those were only alternatives because we were bad storytellers tholocene is not person/stage of being good storytellers forget lovecraft :-) (I made it impossible to forget Lovecraft) non-human art orchid and bees art is a troubled word, words are human way of expression fact of speaking a word shows that there is a lie, demonstrates the impossiblilty of saying it, word 'art' is like that orchid & bee are doing beauty with each other they draw each other to what they do, attraction to colour, feromones; sensibility of these creatures to each other, of the picture to its maker of a videogame 'aninism' is a good enough word for what I'm trying to say, they have a temporality, they do things I don't think we are the only species engaged in the abundance of the earth! ex feeling light, ... why not use the word 'art' for it? vs art is about 'intention' 'never to reach the end of the sentence', a period forces you to affirmation VI. The Camille Stories children of compost 'Make kin not babies'