14.05.23 14.05.23

N.C.L. NATURAL CONTRACT LAB Body of repair

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Decolonising Nature Kinstitue M L Cruz Correia C Markpozlep Mark Pozlep
How does water flow through and between humans? How do we design a process of care based on reciprocity, accountability, and interdependency with the river? Do we need other ways of making justice and gestures of care for aquatic systems?
practical

tickets

20 euro

general info

English spoken, no translation.

estimated duration

This events starts at 10 am in NTGent Arca and ends at 4pm. We kindly ask participants to follow the entire program.

Natural Contract Lab is an artistic research project, which draws from an ecology of reciprocal care and  dialogues with bodies of water undergoing deep ecological transformation.

For the gathering in NTGent, “Rivers confluence”, you are invited to a one-day walk practice, where riverine ecosystems are mapped, sensorially engaged with, and performed, through collective gestures of reciprocal care in conversation with local communities.

Starting from NTGent with recognizing the harm in a circle of river rights followed by a walk towards the disappearance of the Lieve Rive. This riverine walk invites participants to take part in a process of regenerative activism developed in conversation with local witnesses and the river.. In this river walk we become witnessing bodies that listen to the ecosystem that surrounds us.

Natural Contract Lab is an artistic research project, which draws from an ecology of reciprocal care and dialogues with bodies of water undergoing deep ecological transformation. Its visual presence is hybrid and unfolds differently in response to each river under survey.

* This event starts at 10 am and ends at 4 pm. We kindly request the audience to partake in the entire event.

Natural Contract Lab was founded in 2021 by the artist Maria Lucia Cruz Correia in collaboration with a  multidisciplinary group composed by Marine Calmet (environmental jurist), Brunilda Pali (restorative justice), Evanne Nowak (river grief), Lode Vranken (architecture/philosophy), Vinny Jones (scenography), David Buchan (soil ecology/fertility), Mark Požlep (documentation), Margarida Mendes (researcher/sonic guidance).

credits

concept

Maria Lucia Cruz Correia

environmental lawyer

Marine Calmet

expert restorative justice

Brunilda Pali

Lode Vranken

sensory scenography

Vinny Jones

ecological grief

Evanne Nowak

research/guidance

Margairda Mendes

coproduction

Kunstencentrum Vooruit, NTGent, workspacebrussels, L'art Reu/Dream City Festival, C-takt

with support of

De Vlaamse Overheid, BE PART

production

wpZimmer

research support

Institute of Criminology, Wild Legal, Human Rights Consortium UGent, European Forum for Restorative Justice

activation support

Terra Batida/Garantir Cultura (2021), L'art Reu/Dram City Festival (2021-2023), Least (2022-2023)

commissioned by

Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian, Festival Alkantara (2022)
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TOON MINDER
credits

concept

Maria Lucia Cruz Correia

environmental lawyer

Marine Calmet

expert restorative justice

Brunilda Pali

Lode Vranken

sensory scenography

Vinny Jones

ecological grief

Evanne Nowak

research/guidance

Margairda Mendes

coproduction

Kunstencentrum Vooruit, NTGent, workspacebrussels, L'art Reu/Dream City Festival, C-takt

with support of

De Vlaamse Overheid, BE PART

production

wpZimmer

research support

Institute of Criminology, Wild Legal, Human Rights Consortium UGent, European Forum for Restorative Justice

activation support

Terra Batida/Garantir Cultura (2021), L'art Reu/Dram City Festival (2021-2023), Least (2022-2023)

commissioned by

Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian, Festival Alkantara (2022)
practical

tickets

20 euro

general info

English spoken, no translation.

estimated duration

This events starts at 10 am in NTGent Arca and ends at 4pm. We kindly ask participants to follow the entire program.

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