Listening session ‘Way to Ladang house’ with Margarida Mendes
Immaterial Ecologies. A gathering to resynchronise land and body.
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Room 1Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Departing from the ongoing research about sonic forms of ecology that she has been developing over the years, curator and activist Margarida Mendes will guide a listening session to sense and acknowledge the interconnectedness of sound and life.
We are transported to the Tahak region of Kalimantan on the island of Borneo, populated by Dayak communities who practice conscious agriculture and recollection. These communities, which have always guaranteed their food sovereignty based on the abundance of land, are now developing resistance movements, at the risk of seeing their lands expropriated by logging, palm oil, and mining companies.
On a route that starts from the island’s central road to the Ladang farmhouse, we hear the presence of insects, frogs and other animals, that describe the forest climate and weather, while we synchronize with the Dayak struggle for environmental justice and the first steps of Arus Kualan, a school for sharing ancestral knowledge.
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BIOGRAPHY
Margarida Mendes’ research explores the overlap between systems thinking experimental film, sound practices and ecopedagogy. She curates across the world and consults for environmental NGOs working against deep-sea mining. Mendes has co-directed several educational platforms, such as escuelita at CA2M, The World In Which We Occur/Matter in Flux, and The Barber Shop. She is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths University of London.
IMMATERIAL ECOLOGIES
«Immaterial Ecologies» programme includes conversations, concerts, performances, poetry sessions and other artistic practices that will reflect upon the immaterial and spiritual dimensions of ecology.
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