Freethinking, Hesitation, Weirdness

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Freethinking, Hesitation, Weirdness revolves around a broad array of materials and sources, here collected in a micro archive with many entrances and intersecting trajectories.

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Freethinking, Hesitation, Weirdness

A panel on Literature and the Anthropocene

What is the role of literature in the Anthropocene? How can literary history contribute to a reconsideration of our understanding of ecological crisis today? The participants in the Seed Box research project “Freethinking, Hesitation, Weirdness” discuss these questions with invited guests.

Freethinking, Hesitation, Weirdness offers a historical perspective from the 16th century until today on how literature and art explore questions around the Anthropocene, ecologies, climate change, and sustainability.

The main question is how artistic works and experiences might transform our understanding of these issues in ways that can help us overcome a widespread sense of alienation and intangibility. The project consists of three subprojects: “A post-human humanism: Early modern freethinking and its legacy (led by Carin Franzén), “(Un)sustainable subjects: On passivity and waiting in the novel around the turn of the 20th century” (led by Sven Anders Johansson), and “Weird wor(l)ds: Literature and general ecology (led by Jesper Olsson).

Participants

• Carin Franzén is professor in Comparative Literature at Stockholm University.

• Jesper Olsson is professor in Language and Culture at Linköping University.

• Sven Anders Johansson is professor in Comparative Literature at Mid-Sweden University.

Invited Guest: Sofia Roberg, PhD in Comparative Literature, Stockholm University, Critic, and Poet

Photo: Jacek Smolicki 

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FEBRUARY 7–11 • 2022

Garden

Presented by the SeedBox

Festival

Pre Party

Environmental history and the environmental humanities

View a trailer of a dinner discussion film, with Stacy Alaimo, Jacqueline Fay, Mark Hersey, Christopher Morris, Ned Schaumberg, and Rajani Sudan.

Pre Party

The Shit Project

A trailer from the Shit Project video documentation - The Shit Project is a collaborative art and research project with seven artists from Fungus King...

Pre Party

Sex Ecologies: Reel 1

A trailer of Sex Ecologies – a documentary introducing the arts-driven collaborative environmental humanities project encompassing an exhibition, a p***...

Pre Party

Sex Ecologies: Reel 2

A trailer of Sex Ecologies – a documentary introducing the arts-driven collaborative environmental humanities project encompassing an exhibition, a p***...

Pre Party

Sex Ecologies: Reel 3

A trailer of Sex Ecologies – a documentary introducing the arts-driven collaborative environmental humanities project encompassing an exhibition, a p***...

Mon Feb 7 00:01

(De)Cycle live data stream

Bringing the farm to the lab and the lab to the farm, this project considers whether the means of production will grow ever distant from Nature. Will...

Mon Feb 7 09:00

Welcome

The Seed Box management and The Seed Box board, the festival organizers, and Linköping University wish you all warmly welcome to the Community Garden...

Mon Feb 7 10:00 – Register now!

Bridging Borders

A keynote with Lesley Green, Matthew Fuller, and Shela Sheikh, moderated by Nina Lykke.

Mon Feb 7 13:00

Transition Talks

Transition Talks is a podcast based on interviews and conversations where people talk about what it means to transition to a fossil-free society. It i...

Mon Feb 7 14:00

Esmeralda och Draken

Esmeralda och Draken (in Swedish with English subtitles) is a video documentation of a theatre performance for children, and on children’s terms addre...

Mon Feb 7 15:00

Flora Colonica: Traveling Archives

In a sound montage (in Danish and English), tamarinds are used as a prism to unfold stories about co-evolving landscapes. How do tamarind trees functi...

Mon Feb 7 17:00 – Register now!

Environmental Humanities: The State of the Art

A panel with Stacy Alaimo, Eva Lövbrand, Astrida Neimanis, Jesper Olsson and Myra Hird, moderated by Jennifer Hamilton.

Mon Feb 7 19:00

Textual traces, from Delicious Movement

Textual traces by Camila Marambio, from Delicious Movement, a workshop with Eiko Otake.

Mon Feb 7 20:00 – Register now!

Reading & Seeding

Join us, live and online, for a Seed Box themed reading group discussion, facilitated by international reading group propogandist Astrida Neimanis.

Mon Feb 7 23:00

Archive of the weird

Freethinking, Hesitation, Weirdness revolves around a broad array of materials and sources, here collected in a micro archive with many entrances and...

Tue Feb 8 09:00 – Register now!

Can Science Save Us?

A keynote with Oron Catts and Audrey Samson, moderated by Susan Reid

Tue Feb 8 11:00

Envisioning Societal Change

A metaphorical story about the controversies around the use of integrated assessment models for the purpose of envisioning climate transitions, set in...

Tue Feb 8 15:00

Sex Ecologies

Sex Ecologies – a documentary introducing the arts-driven collaborative environmental humanities project encompassing an exhibition, a publication, an...

Tue Feb 8 15:30

Values of Repair Practices

Values of Repair Practices presents two papers: The Political Economy of Circular Economies: Lessons from Future Repair Scenario Deliberations in Swed...

Tue Feb 8 16:00 – Register now!

Cross-Pollination

Do the environmental humanities require particular kinds of translation? What are the voices that are missing from the global debate? How can we tra...

Tue Feb 8 19:30 – Register now!

Reading & Seeding

Join us, live and online, for a Seed Box themed reading group discussion, facilitated by international reading group propogandist Astrida Neimanis.

Tue Feb 8 21:00

Cries for climate justice

In “Cries for Climate Justice – images of youth activism”, we meet activists in Fridays For Future through their own words and through their own image...

Wed Feb 9 09:00 – Register now!

Listening for Connections to the World

How we live in the world is always interdependent and situated within environments and place. Listening is a way of feeling into these relations. For...

Wed Feb 9 11:00

The Power Lies in the Tissue

A video assemblage of documentation from a joint lecture with immunologist Polly Matzinger and Camila Marambio, edited by Katja Aglert and Camila Mara...

Wed Feb 9 12:00

Grass Tree Living Burn

This collaboration is centred on an Indigenous led regenerative burn of a grass tree, or xanthorrhoea, in southeast Australia. By connecting with all...

Wed Feb 9 13:00 – Register now!

Freethinking, Hesitation, Weirdness

What is the role of literature in the Anthropocene? How can literary history contribute to a reconsideration of our understanding of ecological crisis...

Wed Feb 9 14:45

Temporal Walkshop, Counterclocks, and The lecture

With a base in critical feminist posthumanism Curating Time problematizes the anthropocentric focus in many heritage policies and strategies and probe...

Wed Feb 9 16:00 – Register now!

Entwined: Plants and People, Narratives and Networks

How do humans imagine the lives they share with plants? Are plants vegetal others, or do they confront the same kinds of issues that humans do: placem...

Wed Feb 9 18:00 – Register now!

What Comes After Apocalypse?

A keynote with Camila Marambio and Max Boykoff, moderated by Astrida Neimanis.

Wed Feb 9 19:30 – Register now!

Reading & Seeding

Join us, live and online, for a Seed Box themed reading group discussion, facilitated by international reading group propogandist Astrida Neimanis.

Thu Feb 10 09:00 – Register now!

SymbioticA’s Automated Cultures Digestion

This symposium with Tarsh Bates, Sarah Collins, Dale Tilbrook, and Ionat Zurr moderated by Oron Catts, will explore and contest some of the fantasies...

Thu Feb 10 10:30 – Register now!

Listening as methodology in colonial environments

Welcome to a moderated live conversation where Lene Asp Frederiksen and AM Kanngieser share experiences and reflect on practices and challenges in con...

Thu Feb 10 13:00

Ontological Security

Dethroning the planetary perspective: Dealing with actually-occurring transformations using dialogical sense-making and critical phenomenology — a con...

Thu Feb 10 13:30

Seaside Arts and Low-trophic Imaginaries

A short documentary presenting Seaside Arts and Low-Trophic Imaginaries: A State of the Art Network Mid-term Event (2021) that focused on arts, enviro...

Thu Feb 10 15:00

Rumors

Sound bites from Turba Tol Hol Hol Tol, the Chilean Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale curated by Camila Marambio.

Thu Feb 10 16:00 – Register now!

Is Climate Change (only) Meteorological

A keynote with Cate Sandilands and May-Britt Öhman, moderated by Astrida Neimanis.

Thu Feb 10 21:00

Currents and Currency in Cape Town’s Watery Worlds

Currents and Currency explores the emerging social movements opposing the pollution of urban waterways in Cape Town. Through video and richly illustra...

Fri Feb 11 09:00 – Register now!

Environmental Humanities: Reconfiguring Futures

A panel with Marco Amiero, Thom van Dooren, Marietta Radomska and Sue Reid, moderated by Astrida Neimanis.

Fri Feb 11 14:00

Esmeralda och Draken

Esmeralda and the Dragon is a book (in Swedish) for children, and on children’s terms which addresses issues of sustainable development, Agenda 2030 a...

Fri Feb 11 15:00

The Shit Project

The Shit Project is a collaborative art and research project with seven artists from Fungus Kingdom’s studios in Gnesta and four researchers from Upps...

Fri Feb 11 15:45

Video of a Dinner Discussion

The Community Garden Festival will release a video about an environmental history and humanities dinner conversation. At the preimier event, on Friday...

Fri Feb 11 16:00 – Register now!

Environmental History and the Environmental Humanities:

A panel conversation and video screening with Stacy Alaimo, Jacqueline Fay, Mark Hersey, Christopher Morris, Ned Schaumberg, and Rajani Sudan. Inspire...

Fri Feb 11 17:30 – Register now!

Good bye and welcome to the next step!

Stay on after the Environmental Humanities Dinner Discussion for some final and first words. NB: starting time is approximate, depending on the lenght...

After Party

Bridging Borders – video documentation

This is a video documentation of the keynote from Feb 7, 2022 that was part of the Community Garden Festival program.

After Party

Environmental Humanities: The State of The Art - Video Documentation

This is a video documentation of the panel discussion from Feb 7, 2022 that was part of the Community Garden Festival program

After Party

CAN SCIENCE SAVE US? – video documentation

This is a video documentation of the keynote from Feb 8, 2022 that was part of the Community Garden Festival program.

After Party

Cross-Pollination -- video documentation

This is a video documentation of the workshop from Feb 8, 2022 that was part of the Community Garden Festival program.

After Party

What Comes After Apocalypse? - Video documentation

This is a video documentation of the keynote from Feb 9, 2022 that was part of the Commnuity Garden Festival program.

After Party

Is climate change (only) meteorological? - Video documentation

This is a video documentation of the keynote from Feb 10, 2022 that was part of the Community Garden Festival program.

After Party

Environmental Humanities: Reconfiguring Futures - Video Documentation

This is a video documentation of the panel discussion from Feb 11, 2022 that was part of the Community Garden Festival program.

After Party

Environmental History and the Environmental Humanities: - Video Documentation

One evening around a dinner table, six scholars performed a three-hour discussion about the Environmental Humanities. What are the Environmental Human...