The Earth Listens Back (register at the link)
Through collective listening and reflection, this hands-on workshop led by sanjeet takhar at the Allan Gardens Teaching Garden explores sound as a living expression of interconnection. Inspired by the philosophy of Indra’s Net, participants will engage in an exploration of how we shape and are shaped by the world around us. It’s a reminder that the universe, and in that art, operates as a limitless reflection of itself.
This workshop is designed for people of all artistic and (non)disciplinary backgrounds and all levels of experience. No musical knowledge is required.
Participants are encouraged to bring any notebooks, sketchpads, and instruments that they want to play with and listen to.
FERAL?! (register at the link)
We do our bit. We name the species disappearing, we grieve the glaciers, we make the data pressing and elegant. And still, the conditions that produce inaction remain largely untouched: our scripts about crisis somehow have not yet disturbed our day-to-day scripts that maintain the current order.
At the same time, our decisions, interactions, and language are increasingly scripted by systems with no body, no home, and therefore no existential stake. These algorithmic systems and artificial intelligences, severed from place, from grief, and from meaning, pose not only a serious environmental question, they pose essential questions about our public imagination and how culture is made and unmade.
If we understand that aesthetic choices are decisive, that language shapes possibilities, and that our cultural myths and scripts (whether historically or mechanistically scripted) are the breeding grounds of climate complacency……how do we go FERAL?!
This night begins with a talk “Feral ecologies & mythologies for a feral public imagination” with Bianca Wylie, Xuan Ye, and facilitated by Luisa Ji and ends with performances by artists Doraa, Ben McCarthy, and more that bring ferality to cataclysmic, delightful fruition. Through artistic-cultural processes and interventions rooted in eco-steme and hyperstition, this night is about imagining a feral mythology capable of co-creating an expansively feral future before the conditions for dreaming disappear.
Note: This event is split into two parts, (1) a 1-hour talk and (2) performances until 11 PM. Ticket holders are welcome to join and leave at any time.