{"id":52842,"date":"2022-08-10T14:17:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T14:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/?post_type=event&p=52842"},"modified":"2022-09-15T13:45:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T13:45:51","slug":"unexpected-lessons-2-decolonizing-nature","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/da\/begivenhed\/unexpected-lessons-2-decolonizing-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"UNEXPECTED LESSONS #2 \u2013 Decolonizing Nature\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What makes nature the other? What role does the decoupling of nature and culture play? And how can we decolonize our view of the world? The performative conference UNEXPECTED LESSONS #2 \u2013 Decolonizing Nature will focus on anti-colonial approaches to nature \u2013 both in Kenya and Iceland \u2013 against the backdrop of the relations between the Global North and the Global South.<\/em><\/p>\n

In July 2022 the Think Tank Anti-Colonial Approaches to Nature took place in Nairobi. The event addressed seed archives and their colonial entanglements, colonization of land, lost indigenous knowledge on plants and medical botanicals, nature as an archive of memory and the philosophy of nature. The think tank brought together experts from different fields to reflect on the decolonization of nature.<\/p>\n

The performative conference UNEXPECTED LESSONS #2 will take place from 13-15 September 2022 in Reykjavi\u0301k. In dialogue with the Think Tank in Nairobi, it further expands the theme. What makes nature the other? Is the culture\/nature dichotomy tenable at all? And how can we decolonize our view of the world? What does the colonization of \u201cuninhabited nature\u201d in the context of the vastness of the Icelandic landscapes mean?<\/strong> In light of todays\u2019 climate catastrophe and the ongoing exploitation of natural resources, the role of nature not as an \u201cobject\u201d but as an acting subject is central to both locations. Do we need a different way of thinking about nature?<\/p>\n

The UNEXPECTED LESSONS are part of the long-term think tank and exhibition series Talking Objects Lab in Senegal, Kenya, Germany and beyond, which deals with the decolonization of knowledge and memory and explores plural forms and practices of knowledge of the African continent. The UNEXPECTED LESSONS are organic, they provide starting points and intermediate points, interweaving thematically with think tanks in Dakar, Nairobi and Frankfurt. With lecture performances, artistic interventions, poetry and a decolonized dinner, the program will engage with questions of decolonization on a historical as well as spiritual level.<\/p>\n

Curated by Mahret Ifeoma Kupka (Frankfurt, Germany), Njoki Ngumi, The Nest Collective (Nairobi, Kenya), Chao Tayiana Maina, African Digital Heritage (Nairobi, Kenya), Isabel Raabe (Berlin, Germany) More on Talking Objects Lab here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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13th September<\/strong>
\n7:00pm \u2013 S\u00d3N\u00d3 Restaurant
\nAfrofuturistic Conscious Cuisine \u2013 A Decolonized Plate<\/strong>
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Lecture and dinner with Chef Kabui<\/strong> (organic farmer, chef, anthropologist, activist, Nairobi)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

14th September\u00a0<\/strong>
\n11:30 am \u2013 6:00 pm \u2013 Auditorium\u00a0<\/strong>
\nPerformative<\/u> Conference<\/strong><\/p>\n

The conference will be LIVESTREAMED HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

During the performative<\/u> conference UNEXPECTED LESSONS \u2013 Decolonizing Nature<\/em> the team from Talking Objects Lab and their artistic collaborators will explore the question of decolonizing nature <\/u>within the Icelandic context. From 11 am until 9 pm <\/u>the day will be filled with artistic interventions, inputs, and lecture performances on topics such as landscape, memory, nature, indigenous knowledge – and colonial entanglements. <\/u><\/p>\n

11.30am
\nWelcome Remarks <\/span>by the curators Isabel Raabe, Chao Tayiana Maina, Mahret Ifeoma Kupka, Njoki Ngumi<\/span><\/p>\n

12.00am \u2013 12. 30am
\nThe Indigenous Forest
\n<\/strong>Input by <\/span>Harriet Chebet Ng\u2019ok<\/strong> (Harriet\u2019s Botanicals, Nairobi)<\/span><\/p>\n

12.30am \u2013 12.45am
\nMuthi (UK. 2017. 17min. Dir. Uriel Orlow)<\/p>\n

12.45pm \u2013 1.15pm
\nNjoki Ngumi<\/strong> in conversation with Harriet Chebet Ng\u2019ok<\/strong><\/p>\n

1.15pm \u2013 1.45pm
\nDigital Lesson from Nairobi #<\/strong>1 with Patrick Maundu <\/strong>(ethnobiologist, Nairobi)<\/p>\n

1.45pm \u2013 2.45pm \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Lunch Break<\/em><\/p>\n

2.45pm \u2013 3.00 pm
\nThe Intersection of Landscape and Memory
\n<\/strong>Input by Chao Tayiana Maina <\/strong>(African Digital Heritage, Nairobi)<\/p>\n

3.00pm \u2013 3.15 pm
\nMemories of trees \u2013 tree routes and other Universes
\n<\/strong>Poetic Intervention by<\/span> hn. lyonga <\/strong>(writer, Berlin)<\/span><\/p>\n

3.15pm \u2013 3.30pm
\n“Dogs Hunting in the Park”
\n<\/strong>Artistic Lecture with Neo Musangi<\/strong> (artist, Nairobi)<\/p>\n

3.30am \u2013 4.30am
\nTelling Nature – About the importance of Storytelling
\n<\/strong>Talk with <\/span>Chao Tayiana, hn. lyonga, Neo Musangi<\/strong> (Moderation <\/span>Isabel Raabe, <\/strong>TALKING OBJECTS LAB)<\/span><\/p>\n

4.30pm
\nDigital Lesson from Nairobi #2 <\/strong>with Anna Moraa<\/strong> (artist, LAM Sisterhood, Nairobi)<\/p>\n

4.35pm \u2013 5.00pm \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Short Break<\/em><\/p>\n

5.00pm \u2013 5.30pm
\nThe Museum as Plantation
\n<\/strong>Lecture Performance with Ayesha Keshani<\/strong> (artist, museum worker, London)<\/p>\n

5.30pm \u2013 6.00pm
\nDo we need a different way of thinking?
\n<\/strong>Input by Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir<\/strong> (philosopher, University of Iceland, tbc)<\/p>\n

6.00pm \u2013 6.45pm
\nTalk with <\/span>Ayesha Keshani, Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir<\/strong> (Moderation <\/span>Mahret Ifeoma Kupka, <\/strong>TALKING OBJECTS LAB)<\/span><\/p>\n

6.45pm \u2013 7.15pm
\nPumzi<\/strong> (KEN, ZAF. 2009. 33min. Dir. Wanuri Kahiu)<\/p>\n

7.15pm \u2013 7.30pm \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Short Break (change of location)<\/em><\/p>\n

7.30pm
\nLucky 3 presents: Kamayan –\u00a0At the Greenhouse (outside the Nordic House)
\n<\/span><\/strong>Communal Eating Experience with the artists collective Lucky3 (Reykjavik)<\/span><\/p>\n

15th September<\/strong>
\n6:30<\/u> pm \u2013 Auditorium\u00a0<\/strong>
\nFilm Programme<\/p>\n

THIS EVENT WILL BE LIVE STREAMED – click here to watch<\/a>
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PLEASE BOOK A TICKET FOR THIS EVENT HERE (FREE).<\/a><\/p>\n

The film programme expands on the topics of the conference and looks the journey of seeds between the Svalbard Global Seed Vault and Lebanon, patent battles over traditional plant medicine in South Africa and the traces of colonial ambitions of explorers in the Natural History Museum Berlin.<\/u><\/p>\n

6:30 pm
\n\u201cWild Relatives\u201d (NO, DE, Pala\u0308stina . 2018. 66min. Dir. Jumana Manna)<\/p>\n

Short Break<\/em><\/p>\n

8 pm – Short Film Program<\/p>\n

Theatrum Botanicum Trilogy<\/strong> by Uriel Orlow
\nImbizo Ka Mafavuke (Mafavuke\u2019s Tribunal) (2017. 28min. Dir. Uriel Orlow)
\n<\/span>Muthi<\/span> (2016-2017. 17min. Dir. Uriel Orlow)
\n<\/span>The crown against Mafavuke (2016. 18min. Dir. Uriel Orlow)<\/span><\/p>\n

Conspicuous Part <\/strong>(DE, PL. 2018. 35min. Dir. Assaf Gruber)
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UNEXPECTED LESSONS #2 \u2013 Decolonizing Nature is supported by Goethe Institut London. The preparatory\u00a0workshop “Anticolonial Approaches to Nature” in Nairobi was made possible by the Heinrich B\u00f6ll Foundation and\u00a0supported by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.<\/b><\/p>\n

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