Knowledge regarded from the dominant Western horizon is based on separation, deduction and atomisation. Something that lacks complexity and is void of relations is easy to understand. It’s knowledge as a form of zooming in until there’s only one answer, that however tends to forget that all living beings are interdependent to each other and that relations often are more important than the (individual) entities connected.
In order to heal the wounds from anthropogenic trauma and regenerate, it’s crucial to research, probe and practice other forms of knowledge gathering and production, think through forms of entanglement, resilience, togetherness, co-habitation and forms of sharing that aren’t possible to corporatize.
This workshop guides the participants through practices that address knowledge formation through different perspectives. Listening, story-telling, collective reading and writing methods next to physical practices invite the group in the process of creating self-organized knowledge and conception in relation to rethinking reproductive labor, care practice and mothering.

The workshop welcomes individuals with an interest in unlearning conventions and are open to practice alternative ways of gathering, spending time together and engaging with different ecologies of mental and relations qualities.

Concept: Suh Yeongran
Collaborator: Wie Sunghee, Jung Eonjin, Jung Leesu, Lee Suna, Lee Seolae
Co-produced by Ob/scene Festival, Idea Museum (Leeum)

This program is presented with the support of 2024 ARKO International Arts Network.

Suh Yeongran is a choreographer and practice-based researcher active in Copenhagen and Seoul. She creates multidisciplinary dance performances based on her background in anthropology, shamanism and traditional dance. Between dance and creating situations Suh Yeongran’s work reconnects with the ancient, intimacies with the organic and mythological, offering viewers and participants, in a safe space, to explore their own agency in regard to care, motherhood, female friendship and politics of gathering. She is a member of Becoming Species, a climate activism performance group, writes, guides workshops and creates works on multi-species, traditional ecological knowledge, and collective storytelling.