Multispecies Storytelling Part IV

"To name the world as gift is to feel your membership in the web of reciprocity. It makes you happy – and it makes you accountable." Robin Wall Kimmerer

This is an invitation to listen to other(s') stories, to share stories, to care. How could a shared and care-full telling of stories look like, feel like, sound like? What methods and tools do we need to un/learn to be able to make sense of the complex realities of more-than-human life forms and our interrelations with them? How can storytelling become part of a decolonial ecology? We want to meet each other every week to create shared practices and rituals, ways of working and communicating, of un/learning, visiting all kinds of strange, beautiful, troubled, and beastly places. Let us compost.

In this 4th part of the seminar, we are going to exhibit what we've worked on over the past semesters, therefore only students who participated in Multispecies Storytelling III can take part.

Guests:

Chloé Vanden Berghe, Multispecies Ethnographer, Liège

Workshop:

Hearing the Unknown, with studio s:o:m - Janine Blöß & Tom Förderer, Köln

Exhibitions:

Museum Morsbroich, n.n.

Videonale.20, Schaumburg Bonn, 9. – 11. Mai 2025

Recommended literature:

Sophie Chao, Karin Bolender, and Eben Kirksey, eds. The Promise of Multispecies Justice. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022.

Ferdinand, Malcom. A Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022.

Kimmerer, Robin Wall. The Serviceberry, An Economy of Gifts and Abundance, Allen Lane, Penguin Random House, 2024

Le Guin, Ursula K. The Word for World Is Forest. London: Gollancz, 2022.

Wadiwel, Dinesh Joseph. The War against Animals. Boston: Brill, 2015.