On Enclosed Spaces and the Great Outdoors

03/03/2021

The three days of the radio program ON ENCLOSED SPACES AND THE GREAT OUTDOORS - 4. GROUNDING are online.
You can listen to them here.

a radio program curated and hosted by David Weber-Krebs and Jeroen Peeters. With contributions by David Weber-Krebs, Ingrid Vranken, Gosie Vervloessem, Mathi...

03/02/2021

Last year, Jan-Willem Anker wrote some reflections on the third edition of On Enclosed Spaces and the Great Outdoors, which took place at De Brakke Grond in Amsterdam: 3. Haunted Scenes, Decolonial Ecologies. (In Dutch)

Als ik nadenk over de opwarming van het klimaat, dat wil zeggen, de menselijke beïnvloeding van het klimaatsysteem die, afgaande op een enorme stroom nieuwsberichten en wetenschappelijke publicaties, al het leven in toenemende mate kenmerkt en dat voor de komende eeuwen zal blijven doen, dan ervaar...

08/04/2020

ON ENCLOSED SPACES AND THE GREAT OUTDOORS - 4. GROUNDING Is postponed to next season in Kaaitheater

Here you can see the registration of ON ENCLOSED SPACES AND THE GREAT OUTDOORS - 3. HAUNTED SCENES, DECOLONIAL ECOLOGIES that happened in De Brakke Grond (Amsterdam) on February, 29th.

With contributions by Maria Thereza Alves, Kristof Van Baarle, Denis Côté, Malcom Ferdinand, Daisy Hildyard, Gilles Laurent, Amanda Piña and David Weber-Krebs.

Curated and hosted by David Weber-Krebs and Jeroen Peeters. With contributions by Maria Thereza Alves, Kristof Van Baarle, Denis Côté, Malcom Ferdinand, Dais...

19/02/2020

On Enclosed Spaces and the Great Outdoors - 3. Haunted Scenes, Decolonial Ecologies. On 29 Febr. at De Brakke Grond in Amsterdam.

How can we speak about extinction, death and grief from an interspecies perspective? Daisy Hildyard will tell some stories that reach beyond the human.

Here's a review of her inspiring essay The Second Body - on our global entanglements and literally being 'all over the place' not quite meeting our everyday, embodied experiences in times of climate crisis.

These fretful, questioning essays force readers to confront the disruption of our climate and ecology

17/02/2020

'On Enclosed Spaces and the Great Outdoors - 3. Haunted Scenes, Decolonial Ecologies' on 29 Febr. at De Brakke Grond in Amsterdam.

We'll be showing Gilles Laurent's film 'Return to the Territory', made in parallel to his Fukushima documentary 'La terre abandonnée'.

This is "LA TERRE ABANDONNÉE (ABANDONED LAND) | Gilles Laurent | Trailer" by CVB on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love…

12/02/2020

We've started a research block at DAS Theatre.
The coming days we'll have historian Esther Helena Arens as a guest to discuss botanical history in relation to decolonial thinking and ecocriticism. How did all the flowers come to Amsterdam? And moving with the flowers from school to garden to hothouse to library - are these enclosures or contact zones?
Here you can read some of her essays and visual explorations.

31/01/2020

Malcom Ferdinand will soon be our guest in Amsterdam. Here a glimpse of his research about the control of the discourse around climate change and its disconnection from the anti-colonial movements.

Why Malcom Ferdinand advocates for ecological movements to engage in the struggle against racism, and vice versa.

18/01/2020

Our third performative conference is coming up at De Brakke Grond and DAS theatre in Amsterdam on 29 February and 1 March 2020.

With contributions by Maria Thereza Alves, Kristof Van Baarle, Denis Côté, Malcom Ferdinand, Daisy Hildyard, Gilles Laurent, Amanda Piña and David Weber-Krebs.

We live in an age in which human activity has a profound impact on our physical and ecological surroundings. How can we create stories, aesthetics, and spaces of experience to deal with this situation reflexively and critically? What role can the performing arts play in the debate on climate crisis?

18/01/2020

Here you can watch full video documentation of the second performative conference at the Kaaitheater in Brussels in February 2018:
Limits of the Human Sensorium

With contributions by Mette Edvardsen, Augusto Corrieri, Stefanie Wenner, René ten Bos, Bryana Fritz, Axel Dörner, Michael Marder and Anne Juren.

curated by Jeroen Peeters and David Weber-Krebs. With contributions by René ten Bos, Augusto Corrieri, Axel Dörner, Mette Edvardsen, Bryana Fritz, Nikolaus G...

18/01/2020

A prelude to the second conference, TJ Demos gave a lecture on his book 'Against the Anthropocene' at the Kaaistudio's in Brussels in January 2018.

Drawing on his recently released book, Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today (Sternberg Press), UC Santa Cruz professor and Director of its Center for Creative Ecologies T.J. Demos will examine creative models of cultural practice modeling alternatives to the human exception...