Image: Intersections, 2021, Pascalle Blokker
The Tree of Life Grows in on Itself - Reading Lynn Margulis
Friday, 11th of June 2021 - 14:00 (online)
as part of the DocFest Exchange at Sheffield DocFest
in collaboration with Zabriskie Buchladen für Kultur und Natur
The history of any organism is often depicted on a family tree. Family trees usually are grown from the ground up: a single trunk branches off into many separate lineages, each branch diverging from common ancestors. But symbiosis shows us that such trees are idealized representations of the past. In reality the tree of life often grows in on itself. Species come together, fuse, and make new beings, who start again. Biologists call the coming together of branches - whether blood vessels, roots, or fungal threads - anastomosis. [...] The tree of life is a twisted, tangled, pulsing entity with roots and branches meeting underground and in midair to form eccentric new fruits and hybrids. Lynn Margulis (1998) Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution, Sciencewriters, Basic Books, Amherst, Massachusetts
In ‘Between Us and Nature – A Reading Club’ we read together texts related to natural sciences, art, anthropology, postcolonialism, and (post)anthropocene, chosen from a female perspective looking beyond disciplines. At this reading group we will read passages together out loud and share our experiences and thoughts about the nature we live in, what it means to us, and will discuss different ways of engaging with the world we inhabit.
NOTE the TIME: We start at 14:00 CEST. We have 90 minutes reading together.
RSVP on the festival page here
The film Symbiotic Earth: How Lynn Margulis rocked the boat and started a scientific revolution
directed by John Feldman will be screened during the festival.
Come and join us with an open mind here:
What: The Reading Club is in English language
Where: Online via Zoom : Please install the app on your device beforehand
When: Friday June 11, 2021, 14:00 CEST (sharp!)
Who: small group of lovely, people who would like to meet you (personal rsvp is necessary: please register here
Why: to read together, be inspired and meet people
Hosts: Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky, artist, and Sina Ribak, researcher for ecologies and the arts
Part of the DocFest Exchange at Sheffield DocFest.
In collaboration with Zabriskie Buchladen für Kultur und Natur.
Image: Intersections, 2021, Pascalle Blokker