lusuud
https://filehost.nieuweinstituut.nl/LUSUUD_main-1701428459.mp4Video artwork, 2023 New media artist Aryuna Bulutova turns to Indigenous practices and epistemologies in a quest to heal our relationship with the world beyond the human. Inspired by Lusuud, a Buryat Shamanic ritual, Bulutova’s video artwork interweaves ancestral knowledge with climate awareness. Guided by her parents who are practising shamans, Bulutova delves into a […]
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TBA21 Involving collaborators from those whose lives are embedded in the region and those from afar, Dissolving Earths was due to launch in March 2020. Funded by The British Council, it was a casualty of blanket sanctions by the UK Foreign Office. As an indigenous population and land colonized by Russia, many of the collaborators’ […]
Umbilical Lands and the Shape-Shifting Lives of Rivers
Podcast Artist, Bo Choy speaks with Sayana Namsaraeva, an anthropologist from Buryatia, a republic in Eastern Siberia bordering Mongolia, who’s work focuses on the indigenous cosmologies of the people from her region. Together they delve into animated landscapes that surround Lake Baikal, the deepest and oldest freshwater lake on the planet. Their conversation considers the […]
Dissolving Earths Launch, with Elizabeth Povinelli, Sophie J Williamson and Sata Taas
https://vimeo.com/817634364 Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam. April 8, 15.00 – 16.30 CET Join us at Het Nieuwe Instituut for the launch of Dissolving Earths. The afternoon will include talks by critical theorist Elizabeth Povinelli, curator Sophie J Williamson and a screening of new video and audio work by Sata Taas. Followed by Q&A, moderated by Klaas […]
Stewards of Futures in Precarious Lands
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Resurfacing lives
Podcast Artist, Bo Choy speaks with Sayana Namsaraeva, an anthropologist from Buryatia, a republic of Eastern Siberia bordering Mongolia, who’s work focuses on the indigenous cosmologies of the people from her region. Together they delve into animated landscapes that surround Lake Baikal, the deepest and oldest freshwater lake on the planet. Their conversation considers the […]
Permafrost hydrofeminism
Podcast Cultural theorist, Astrida Neimanis’ theory of Hydrofeminism, positions water as an ever-shifting body that connects all beings and archives all histories. Unlike other bodies of water however, the permafrost wishes to remain still. Neimanis speaks with permafrost hydrologist, Nikita Tananaev to discuss the cultural, philosophical and ecological implications of permafrost degradation as it disrupts […]
The Mirror and the Lake
How a telescope at the bottom of the world’s cleanest and deepest lake shows the link between ecology and cosmology. I.One of the crucial phases of the James Webb Space Telescope’s deployment en route to the Lagrange 2 point was to spread widely the port and starboard wing of its main mirror, followed by fine-tuning […]
Warm Frost
There are tomatoes growing in Siberia. Not one or two, but tonnes. Cucumbers, lettuce, and tomatoes are spreading lush green walls inside polytunnels, in year-round temperate warmth of twenty degrees Celsius. Above these plants, there are three layers of clear plastic which allow precisely 94% of sunlight to enter. Below these plants, below ground, there […]