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Projects
ICE * In Case of Emergency
Fiumana
Water Tales
Wesen
Statement
Sympoietic Society is a pan-European art collective of emerging artists, performers, designers, curators, researchers addressing environmental losses through collaborative and site-sensitive artistic interventions. The collective advocates for a social model organised around the principle of “sympoiesis”, that is, of “making-with” –and therefore “thinking-with” and “becoming-with”– human and more-than-human entities. Our research revolves around experimenting with new ways of inhabiting a planet in crisis, disrupted by the acceleration of capitalism and extractivism. By adopting artistic approaches, we develop a more embodied understanding of environmental crises and facilitate more inclusive dialogues. Practising ecologies of care, we acknowledge our inherent vulnerability as interdependent beings in a complex, entangled world. Embracing the essence of experimentation, we encourage unconventional modes of sensing and archiving and initiate participatory experiences that amplify diverse perspectives and narratives. Through our interventions, we investigate and promote site-sensitive creation and posthuman relationships based on generosity, reciprocity and response-ability.