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The Project Archive 2021-24 is incomplete and work in progress – please contact us if you are interested in past projects.

compost collective, The Institute for Postnatural Studies & Dennis Dizon
invited by Kevin Space, Vienna
Intimate Assemblages: #1 Ecologies
Recording Workshop & Orchester
Freitag 26. Juli 2024, 10–14 Uhr

compost practices: recording, moving, collaborating–Klasse für Alle
compost group members of Klasse für Alle will guide all participants through multiple practices of care related to the activities established at the site of one of their compost heaps, understanding composting as a ritual of gathering, acknowledging, and transformation. By learning to see and recognize nutrient cycles, we give meaning to organic residue and unlearn the human-made definition of waste. Taken from Kim Q. Hall, we question concepts of pureness and toxicity, and apply those ideas to our compost as well as plural modes of sociality that exist therein (2) Sensing those borders by touching, tasting, smelling, listening, recording, composing/decomposing, and contaminating, we nurture relationships between humans, other species, microorganisms, and the environment. In our introductory exercise, we will mix and stimulate our senses, ideas, and bodies. Then, we will focus on moving, recording, and collaborating. Initially we will learn to use technical tools such as microphones and recorders to explore multiple ways of sensing. We will search ways that deepen (listening) processes even more, and alter the common methods of field- to compost-recordings. Collaborating with musician Paul Ebhart, we will mix, alter, and re-play our recordings in a spontaneous and improvised compost sound performance, to discover the outcomes of our shared processes.

garden group 2023/24: Planting a Tree with MST