Image by Pedro Neves Marques from Semente Exterminadora [Exterminator Seed], 2017
How Many Natures Can “Futures” Nurture?
On the work by Pedro Neves Marques
Sunday, December 6 2020 - 11:30 CET/Berlin (online)
within the Artist Film Festival at HOME (Manchester)
in collaboration with Zabriskie Buchladen für Kultur und Natur
Join us for a group reading and informal discussion of Pedro Neves Marques writing.
In their 2016 essay Pedro Neves Marques asked “How Many Natures Can Nature Nurture?”1.
Looking at more recent essays of them, we want to explore the multiplicity of futures and natures. 2
Afrofuturism, multinaturalism, science fiction and political agency of sex, alterities against colonial power, oppression, and manipulation are some of the topics that Pedro Neves Marques’ work deals with. They suggest, that while we need to invent new terms no longer tied to old categories, we must also allow common terms to explode and vary. I am talking about the openness and variability of the human, as a concept, and correlatedly of nature. 3
This Between Us and Nature Reading Group: How Many Natures Can “Futures” Nurture? session is part of the HOME Artist Film Weekender 2020. The festival will be available online from Thu 3 - Sun 6 Dec in a ‘Watch Together Programme’. Please RSVP for this reading session via the event on the HOME webpage.
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.
CHANGE of TIME AND DURATION: We start at 11:30 AM CET/Berlin time. We have 1,5 hours reading together.
Those who would like to attend the reading session, please rsvp via the event on the HOME webpage. This is the direct link for booking the event. The reading is as always for free. You will receive a selection of texts.
Come and join us with an open mind.
What: Between Us and Nature – A Reading Club #34 How Many Natures Can “Futures” Nurture? Within the Artist Film Festival at HOME
in English language with a limited capacity of participants
Where: Online via Zoom : Please install the app on your device beforehand
When: Sunday December 6, 2020, 11.30 AM CET/Berlin (12.30 PM CET/UK)
Who: small group of lovely, people who would like to meet you (personal RVSP is necessary)
Why: to read together, be inspired and meet people
Note: as there is a limited capacity, if after confirming your attendance you find out that you are not able to connect, we ask you to be kind to others and to cancel as soon as possible
Hosts: Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky, artist, and Sina Ribak, researcher for ecologies and the arts
In collaboration with Zabriskie Buchladen für Kultur und Natur
Reference:
1 Pedro Neves Marques (2016): How Many Natures Can Nature Nurture? The Human, Multinaturalism and Variation, In Elemental Propositions, ed. Ashkan Sepahvand et al. Beirut: Sursock Museum (summer 2016)
2 In: Futurity Report vol.I edited by E.C.H. de Bruyn and Lütticken, S., Sternberg Press, Berlin
3 Pedro Neves Marques (2016): How Many Natures Can Nature Nurture? The Human, Multinaturalism and Variation, In Elemental Propositions, ed. Ashkan Sepahvand et al. Beirut: Sursock Museum (summer 2016)
Image by Pedro Neves Marques from Semente Exterminadora [Exterminator Seed], 2017