06/10/2023
Miha Brebenel
For the menu-publication that accompanies the performative dinner hosted by Tanzfabrik on the 8th of October, we invited 𝐦𝐢𝐡𝐚 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐛𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐥 to speculate on the notion of “Socialist Herbalism”. By focusing on molecular histories, epistemic violence, and practices of care in Eastern Europe, Balkans, and the Baltics, their contribution investigates historical European Socialist visions of the environment, science, and the use of alternative medicines, and puts these in conversation with global q***r and feminist modalities and imaginations, which revisit herbalism as a community practice.
The present that we are now living is nevertheless inextricably embedded in white supremacist and ethno-nationalist processes of nation-building, as much as forms of oppression of human and plant life remain unacknowledged. A clear example of these oppressive histories is the 19th century Romanian history of enslavement of Roma peoples, and the simultaneous extraction, dismissal, and punishment (as witchcraft) of medicinal knowledge and practices belonging to Roma communities.
miha brebenel (they/them) is a romanian-born disabled white q***r based in london. their long-term and expanding explorations are focused on the histories of socialist solidarity, and its intersections with disability, gender, critical plant studies, law, social and healing justice, somatics. miha is a senior lecturer at wi******er school of art, university of southampton and has been teaching and researching in the areas of digital cultures, screen and moving image art and media technologies, gender, disability and identity.
🗓8 OCT 18.00h
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Image: Dandelion, the cat, and cyanotype prints. Picture taken during the Socialist Herbalism Gathering 1-5 May 2023, Massia, Estonia.
