“Towards Permacultural Institutions: Curating Transformation”, Temporary Gallery – Center for Contemporary Art, Cologne (DE), 20-21 October, 2023.
“Towards Permacultural Institutions: Curating Transformation” is a series of workshops curated by Aneta Rostkowska and Nada Rosa Schroer, in cooperation with the medienwerk.nrw network. Inspired by permacultural practices, on this occasion I facilitated a workshop with invited participants, focusing on the ‘cultivation of margins’ as a necessary action to foster ‘allyship’.
“Against the backdrop of multiple social and ecological crises, the workshop series “Towards Permacultural Institutions: Curating Transformation” takes reflections on the application of permacultural principles in the cultural sector as the starting point for a three-part workshop series. The focus is on the question of what role art institutions can play in urgent transformation processes towards an ecologically just and decolonial society and what options they have for action.
What does it mean for art institutions to put themselves at the service of environmental activism and the climate justice movement? The first workshop on allyship will explore the possibility of supporting local groups organizers, and look for ways to build reciprocal relationships between actors and communities in the so-called Global South and North. What are the first steps towards decolonial allyship?” (Aneta Rostkowska and Nada Rosa Schroer).
Invited guests: Antonia Alampi, Jakeline Romero Epiayú, Chihiro Geuzebroek, Camilo Pachón, Ela Spalding, Angela Serino, AMA TWI.