Alchorisma
This platform emerged out of the collective energies during two Alchorisma worksessions organised by Z33 and Constant. It gathers ideas, tests and prototypes developed during the worksessions. Worksessions are Constant's intensive trans-disciplinary situations to which participants from all over the world contribute. They function as a temporary research lab; a collective working environment where different types of expertise come into contact with each other. During work sessions we develop ideas and prototypes. The first worksession took place from 2 till 8 December 2018 at Z33 in Hasselt, Belgium. The second worksession was organised from 24 to 29 August 2020 the family house of Anne-Laure Buisson in Beaulieu, Vercors, France.
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Tu(r)ning into trees
This text untangles some of the lines that have run through the Alchorisma research. It elaborates on the basis of the knowledge we gathered from meetings with trees that took place during excursions and field trips, and uses these meetings as a pathway to revisit some of Alchorisma’s leading references, concepts and methodologies. The text uses these meetings with trees to unravel practices of attunement, attention, embodied immersion and care for other beings, opening up new ways of engaging with trees, landscapes and other beings from a multispecies perspective.
Feedback Loops, Temporal Shifts
The logic of late capitalism is inbred from an actualization of archaic methodologies of domination and shows analogous practices with those of classical schools of magic. In this experimental text the artists co-create an enchanting essay combining critical theory of contemporary economies and technologies applied to hypersigilic magic and the history of neural networks.
We are all Earth
Karin Ulmer has worked for over 20 years with Brussels-based civil society organisations engaging in advocacy and lobbying towards EU institutions on policies related to sustainable food systems, agriculture and trade, land and seed rights. Karin is a member of the photo collective tetebeche.eu. 'We are all Earth' is written in her new capacity as independent consultant and will be part of her forthcoming photo-note-book in 2021 titled homositus.