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Cosmoimaginaries
Astro Ecologies + Intercreate
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Our activities range across a range of performance, workshops, exhibitions and publicly accessible research, with a commitment to affordable engagements that welcome varied publics.
The programme is rooted in respect for diverse ways of knowing and being, exploring relational, creative and poetic techniques as ways to approach the issues emerging in this era of climate breakdown, systemic change and the Second Space Age. Cosmoimaginaries finds ways to connect the creative, scientific, cultural, technological to learn together about outer space and the search for life in the Universe. Activities value listening, learning and creating together to loosen constricted and too narrow accounts of communication, life and our futures amongst the stars.
Moving beyond the exhausted extractive futures of colonising space industries, Cosmoimaginaries welcomes ecological and more-than-human approaches: art and storytelling, anthropologies and archaeologies, varied philosophies and cultural practices, embodied and place-based approaches. Dialogues and creative activities across place emphasise Earth's own entanglement in the wild and weird ecologies of Universal processes.
Cosmoimaginaries emerges out of playful encounters with space art and research across the last decades and online meetings during the pandemic. A live event at Care + Climate in 2023 launched the theme as part of the Ecologies, Technologies programme with Schumacher College. Since 2024, the programme has been held by the Astro Ecologies Institute and Intercreate in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Events include art, performance workshops, speculative experiments, poetry and storytelling, creative and DIY technologies, bringing together conversations across disciplines and participatory research rooted in understandings of life as flow, embodied, durational and transforming.
Held by Astro Ecologies Institute
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Kate Genevieve is an artist and researcher at chroma.space studio living in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa, with roots in Scotland and the South East of England. Her work arises from a sense that embodied, relational, creative life feeds activism and transformation in real ways.
Kate is currently working convening Cosmoimaginaries, an art and research programme exploring futures and imaginaries in the Second Space Age, and collaborating on All Worlds, All Times, a performance workshop on futures for the discovery of life beyond Earth, and Te Wānanga o Hina, supporting Pacific-led dialogue on relations with the moon and our lunar responsibilities.
She has held long-term positions as Visiting Artist at the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science and the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, creating experiential installations and playful research with different labs and publics. Kate taught MA and BA courses at the University of Sussex and Brighton University and has co-designed and facilitated transdisciplinary learning programmes, such as ‘Sensemaking in Uncertainty’ with the International Bateson Institute for National Health Services South West England, and ‘Ecologies, Technologies’ a hybrid programme with Schumacher College’s MA in Ecological Design Thinking. Since moving to Aotearoa in 2021, she serves as a trustee for Intercreate and on the committee of the SETI Post-Detection Hub at the University of St Andrews where she convenes the Emerging Practices Working Group.
Nina Czegledy, artist, independent curator, researcher, and educator, works internationally on collaborative art, science and technology projects. Paradigm shifts in the arts, science, educational issues and contemporary technologies inform her projects. Involved in space art exhibitions and projects from early in her career, including working with Pasha Clothier and Trudy Lane on the many SCANZ meetings for the Intercreate network - “Solar Circuit Aotearoa New Zealand” - from the Polar Circuit artist residency, which was held in 1997, 1998 and 2000. Recent curation work has opened up fresh emphasis on culture, embodied sensing and inner worlds; as a curator for the symposium, A Light Footprint in the Cosmos, and now working on a new project on light and intimacy. Nina has exhibited and published widely, won awards for her artwork and has initiated, led and participated in workshops, forums and festivals worldwide.
Trudy Lane takes a relational, embedded approach to conservation and creative projects which support the healthy interrelationship of community and ecologies in her rural home area. In this way, navigating turbid waters to restore coastal wetlands, using creative works to advocate for globally migratory shorebirds, and co-organising events acknowledging painful colonial histories, all form interconnected manifestations of a commitment to find ways to create healing in her ‘place to stand’ in Aotearoa New Zealand. Trudy has exhibited internationally, and is a co-founder of Intercreate. She is the creator of Sunroom, an installation inspired by the simple realisation that all energy for life on Earth comes from the Sun to combine astrophysics, energy, ecology, and cosmologies, presented by Urban Dream Brokerage in Dunedin.