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A 48hour happening that took place between trees and ruins and welcomed aliens that had emerged beyond our (knowledge)horizons.
Organised by: Golnaz Bashiri, Rosie Benn, Athanasios Gramosis, Johanna Folkmann, Rafael Lippuner, Marko Markovic, Frédérique
Neuts Leroy, Lala Nomada, Marina Rebhandl. Chair: Bernd Kräftner; in collaboration with: Brishty Alam, Valerie Deifel. Cooperation
partners: Verein NESTU (Swiss-Transcarpathian Network), Bogdan Popov (Ecosololutions Forge), Rupert Seidl (University of Natural
Resources and Life Sciences Vienna). In the context of the annual topic 2016–18: IN THE WOODS – IN THE WILD From 2016–18 students
of the Art&Science master’s course, University of Applied Arts Vienna, have been working on the implications of a contemporary
academic discourse that aims at reframing our understanding of ‘Nature’. Artistic imaginations concerning Nature become markedly
influenced by new insights of various scientific disciplines. In order to narrow down this rather broad topic, the research
focused on the question of ‘what is a forest?’ Students were exposed to a multidisciplinary scientific discourse inspired
by many new theoretical and practical silvicultural insights. These theoretical discussions regarding our relationship with
Nature were complemented by an experiential and experimental component where students could deepen their understanding on
forests through practical on-site research. For this purpose, they stayed in the forests of Transcarpathia (Ukraine) for ten
days in July 2017. Together with local stakeholders (environmental state authorities, NGOs, (wood)industry, socio-cultural
actors, etc.), visions and versions of what a forest ‘is’ were debated. In a second phase, the group returned to the Ukrainian
forests in September 2018 to assemble its research findings, allies and questions around a plot of land in search for a latent
commons.
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