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Art as a healer

Dom-an reflects on how she has nurtured resilience and regeneration through combining the healing powers of music and community. Dom-an belongs to the Kankanaey Indigenous peoples living west of the Chico River in Sagada, Mountain Province Cordillera, Philippines.

Art as the world we would like to build

Renuka Ramanujam calls for the powerful force that can be unlocked by bringing art together with action in different domains, fostering the resilient relationships we would like to build with the planet and each other.

Refusal to Heal

“Refusal to Heal aims to reveal the parts of the human psyche that want nothing to do with healing back into society or a life that will not change. […] Resigned to the shadow, these parts of us seek relationality, unconditional being, truth, and a conversation no one dares to have.” Rūta Žemčugovaitė

Wandering Lines

“I feel that my ability to cope with the modern world is slowly disintegrating. I feel a thinning veil between me and the reality of the world: the multi-crisis we are facing, the daily encounters with human and non-human suffering, dying ecosystems, and disappearing species.” Rūta Žemčugovaitė

Seedless Fruit, Vulnerability, Healing, and Flourish!

“Healing is not seedless. Healing is a ripe fruit, fallen on the ground, torn and bursting open—allowing its seeds of vulnerability to be absorbed into the soil, and its sweetness shared with other living beings.“

Art as a catalyst for care

Emily Joy is a socially and environmentally engaged artist, participating in the Re-storying Landscapes in a Changing Climate project. She discusses her recent community art projects, and explores how emotions of loss and grief expresssed in community can serve as a catalyst for care in a time of climate crisis.

Cooking as Love and Life

Cooking for me became a way to connect to happiness and to life – my first conscious exercise. You have to eat to be alive, and if you cook, you can give yourself the things you and other people love. Being very connected to the core of life is what cooking and eating means for me.

Why we should value food

Konkankoh, Indigenous Elder from Cameroon, discusses what it means to be conscious with food based on his youth and experience with the Ndanifor Permaculture Ecovillage.

On stage with Ian Rowlands

Wales is a community of communities that celebrates its difference. In celebrating that difference, we must also respect the differences of others. My devolutionary texts are warnings, that with freedom we do not replicate the logic of deference.

On stage with Abhishek Majumdar

I personally went through a period of confusion around the climate crisis because the discourse around it used to be quite singularly around end of the world, whereas my sense was that there was something much more personal, philosophical, ethical, and present than an imminent doom…

On stage with Caitlin Nasema Cassidy

I hope to leave audiences with an acute awareness of their individual and collective power. I hope the theatre I make helps people feel alive. In order to get there, I think audiences need to be radically welcomed. They need to feel like they belong and have a vital role to play.

Performing with Kiyo Gutiérrez

Symbiosis is a source of inspiration, as a way of rethinking planetary life, sociability, knowledge, mutual help, relationships, care, community, all of it in order to stimulate a world where diversity and multiplicity can thrive.

On stage with David Finnigan

Crisis is all we know. We live our whole lives in the context of escalating planetary transformation, and the ground we stand on has never been steady. Theatre is what I do, it’s how I choose to live my life, but the crisis is the air I breathe…

In the world of Julie Sperling

Rocks are my main staple in my work and for me they contain so many possibilities. You never really know what’s going to be inside when you crack it open – how it will behave, smell, look, and sound. There’s a whole world just waiting to be revealed.

Nunatsiavut by Eldred Allen

“A scull (group) of Harps seals swimming on their backs is a common sight where I live, but revealing their patterns and movement from an aerial perspective provides an entirely new level of intrigue and appreciation.” Eldred Allen

How can we transform mindsets to address climate change?

The Earth is reflecting back to us that it is reaching certain limits and that the path we have been taking has no future. But I don’t see a kind of breaking point, more of new relationship patterns emerging here and there, connecting and forming new resonance fields. At some point it will have become a totally different system.

What can Inuit teach us about climate change and mental health?

“Now that we have this climate crisis on us, there’s so much human and other-than-human loss. So we need new skills and we also have to change our understanding of the power of grief and see it as a politically mobilizing force…”

In the world of Entangled Others

To me community is our human re-enactment of the forest. Together we intertwine and grow, creating our own micro-climates and connections that can nurture and support each-other as well as create space for a rich ecosystem of others to find their place within.

About Nature by Kaija Kiuru

“My eyes are fixed to the distant point where the mire and the forest meet, I can see the blue silhouette of Oratunturi Fell arching behind them. Crooked birches stand on peat islets running through the mire, I feel the rich smell of the mire in my nose. The sky is wide, and the earth. And the mind.”- Kaija Kiuru

In the world of Himali Singh Soin

Storytelling from the perspective of ice, or a stone, a tree, a branch, a ray of light, for me is such an intense way to build a relationship with the Earth. And language becoming a thing that doesn’t separate us from the natural world, but a way of entangling us in its system of exchanges.

Ice Works by Maureen Gruben

“Caribou ribs separating from the cage is the same sound as tundra cranberries separating from the vine. When you are open to the land, it speaks to you.” says Inuvialuk artist Maureen Gruben, from her hometown of Tuktoyatuk in the Western Arctic.

In the world of Sofia Crespo

The emotion driving my work has changed several times throughout my practice, initially, it used to be healing, and even at some point reconciliation. Now I think it’s more a desire to share, to spark curiosity, and start a conversation about the natural world.

The Regenerative Cinema Club

Our pick of the most hopeful, inspiring and engaging documentaries about the central role of food, Indigenous foodways, regenerative agriculture, and… mushrooms in addressing the climate emergency and so many other global crises. Enjoy!

In the world of Elekktronaut

What I see in the community of generative artists – that I am part of – is a great direction of what I wish the general art world would be like. In my experience, artists in this field tend to be very open-minded, helpful and gladly share their experiments and tricks…

When will we return what we took from Indigenous peoples?

A big part of our struggle seems to be aligned with intentional amnesia, or a community or society choosing not to acknowledge or see even the tribal communities as existing…

How can we stop colonizing the future?

In India, there is so much fantastic imagination about times that are not present times, that are not necessarily past times either, but almost parallel time periods. Now in my expanded understanding of what futures thinking is about, I see all of it as future fiction, if not science fiction…

From Opera Singer in Taiwan to Gardener in Belgium

Everything came from curiosity. I was always curious about how the taste of fresh food would compare with that of the food I get at the supermarket. And since I had rented a house with a garden, I thought: ‘Why not?’, ‘Why not just start it?’…

What if we truly valued food to save our world?

We need to deindustrialize the food system. That’s radical but it is what I believe. And when I say deindustrialize, I’m not saying de-tech it… It’s about using technology to help us farm with nature, not against nature. We need to start farming regeneratively, which means…

Shall we fall in love with nature virtually?

Following Satish Kumar, personal transformation comes from the heart and not the mind. How could anyone shift from a consumerist mindset to a conservation mindset without falling in love with nature and recognizing oneself in nature? In other words, having a deep transformative experience is necessary for our hearts to open up…

In the world of Catalina Swinburn

I intend to rescue ancestral rituals related to sacred places, ancestral geography and original memory, and take them into my own exploration where the work is presented as a syncretic bricolage, as an attempt to reconcile different doctrines, a process of trans-culturalization and miscegenation, the union of the sacred and the secular…

Ever Falling Forest. Steel, hardware, handcut/lasercut mylar, paint. 20 x 8 x 8 feet. 2020. Permanent collection of S*Park Living Community.

In the world of Regan Rosburg

I believe that education and a return to a nature-centric narrative will naturally cause the tide to shift for more altruism, thoughtful living, and preservation. I see cities and small community villages that function like biological organisms because it makes sense to build them that way…

In the world of Delfina Muñoz de Toro

How do you connect with the Earth today?
I connect to the Earth in so many ways, living on her and depending on her… the biggest connection comes in moments of ceremony and prayer. I have always lived in natural places far from cities, so daily I connect to the earth by walking in the forest …

In the world of Achim Mohné

In 1000 years, I imagine that individual countries are no longer governed or dominated but there is one “administration” for the whole globe. It is not politicians who govern, but artificial intelligence. Human vanity and power obsession are thus eliminated…

What if resilience was about welcoming emergence every day?

Emergence to me are the phenomena that can fill a void, previously overlooked by my own assumptions. It is the opportunity to notice something unnoticed, to appreciate something unappreciated, and to do something differently than anticipated.

DI-GI-TA-LIS by Achim Mohné

In this episode of the Infinite Mosaic Galleries, we experience the sharp beauty of flowers and edible plants through the digital vision of German artist Achim Mohné.

A World of Creators – Waking up to our Voices

I am lucky I wake up from nightmares every day. Do you? Those dreams feel so real that I have long wondered whether they are nightmares or travels through different bodies, times and spaces…

In the world of Joaquin Vila

How do you imagine the world in 20 years?
I imagine it with more extremes. People more aware and people farther from consciousness. More technology but also more self-sufficiency. More agroecology and more virtual worlds. More activism, more social struggles. More radicalisms. I’m afraid to think about it and at the same time it excites me…

Winter in Yellowstone by Takako Matoba

Collision of winter cold against geothermal heat
intermingling of rising steam, whirling snow, and clouds
traces of wild creatures hunting for food through the thicket of snow
patterns of vegetation marked by generations
to be the only witness of such unnamed beauties…

In the world of Mat Chivers

What is the plant, animal or object that most inspires you and how?
From the age of 8 until my mid-teens I used to breed moths and butterflies in a shed at the bottom of the garden. Together my father and I built the silk-screened cages that housed them and their food plants. I’d sit in a stripey deckchair and draw the insects as they rested…

In the world of Suwon Lee

How do you imagine the world in 1000 years?
In 1000 years, humanity keeps on evolving beyond what is possibly imaginable right now. Though perhaps not the majority, the more conscious, altruistic and compassionate part of humanity is leading the way for progress. We are beginning to communicate on a deeper, intuitive level, more telepathic…

Albemarle by Caridad Svich

Ever since I’ve been here, tending to this wreck of a place,
my anger’s become a mountain. I scale it every day.
Good for the muscles, they say. Poison for the mind. (you)
Need to lie down for a while, rest those bones. Amazing you’re still alive…

Beyond Fear for Good

I have been feeling so much happiness over the past few days. It’s not that I do not feel fear in this chaotic era of corona pandemics. Supermarket shelves emptied by panicked hands, police squads patrolling empty streets, overwhelmed medical staff, curfews… resuscitate harrowing hours of human history…

Ushuaia Blue by Caridad Svich

PEPA: I stopped farming a long time ago. Hurt my back.
And the fish – I leave them alone now.
SARA: You’ve given up?
PEPA: I don’t give up on nature.
Perhaps nature has given up on me. Like with you…

Nathalie Lété on Finding Beauty in the Nothing-at-All

Well, what interests me is really about finding beauty in what we do ourselves. I find any object that we create ourselves to be more beautiful than what we buy as ready-made. And then it becomes a habit. It’s like when you have kids…

In the world of Ellen Mulcrone

What is the plant, animal or object that most inspires you and how?
The plant, animal or object that inspires me the most is the pupa! When contemplating this metamorphosis from caterpillar to butterfly I am often left feeling bewildered, in the best way possible…

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In the world of Pieremilio Gandini

How do you imagine the world in 20 years?
I don’t expect it to change that fast. In twenty years, we’ll probably be spectators of more and more natural disasters. I sadly hope that it will be at least harder for anyone to deny that earth is reacting because of us…

Infinite Mosaic Galleries - Image of Cancale by Leo-Paul Ridet

Cancale by Léo-Paul Ridet

My family comes from a mountainous region. The seaside never felt particularly appealing nor welcoming to me. But with a new family of my own, I have been coming to this region of Brittany over and over again. Taking pictures of this coast and its people…

Open Mind Series - Photograph of Obelisco by Ellen Piot

In the world of Ellen Piot

How do you imagine the world in 20 years?
Ecologically, I sadly imagine that the ongoing natural phenomena will cause serious problems. In 20 years, I’m afraid that earthquakes and floods will destroy many more areas with their inhabitants and that forest fires…