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Cosmoimaginaries
Astro Ecologies + Intercreate
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Growing relationships across Oceania, Cosmoimaginaries is committed to free or affordable engagements that offer emerging research and experimental practice to a vibrant networks and varied publics through dialogues, events, workshops, exhibitions and publicly accessible research.
The programme is rooted in respect for diverse ways of knowing and being, bringing relational and poetic techniques to emergent issues of our era of climate and systemic breakdown and the second space age. Cosmoimaginaries refigures outer space and the search for extraterrestrial life (SETI) through varied scientific, technological, cultural and creative perspectives. The dialogues and creative activities across place emphasise Earth's own entanglement in the wild and weird ecologies of Universal processes.
Moving beyond exhausted extractive futures of colonising space industries, Cosmoimaginaries welcomes more-than-human approaches through art and storytelling, multimodal ethnographies and archaeologies, and varied philosophies and cultural practices, as well as different place-based approaches to futures amongst the stars.
Cosmoimaginaries emerges out of playful encounters with space art and research across the last decades and in particular 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 share art, performance workshops, speculative experiments, poetry and storytelling, creative and DIY technologies relating to the planetary, bringing together conversations with experts and participatory research rooted in understandings of life as processual flow, embodied, durational and uncertain.
Organisers:
- Astro Ecologies Institute
- Intercreate.org Aotearoa
Partners:
- Ecologies.fm
- Care + Climate
- Aluna London
People
Kate Genevieve is an artist, researcher, and founder of chroma.space studio. Her work is rooted in a sense that embodied, relational, creative life feeds activism and transformation in real ways. She explores ecological communication and dreaming technologies through her practice-based research, education, curating and art making, exhibiting art and performances worldwide. She has served as a Visiting Artist at the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science and the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, creating experiential installations and playful research with labs and publics. Kate taught MA and BA courses at the University of Sussex and Brighton University, and since moving to Aotearoa in 2021, focuses on education through special programmes, designed and facilitated to combine transdisciplinary learning, 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. She is working on the themes of Cosmoimaginaries with the Intercreate network, where she serves as a trustee in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa, and the Astro Ecologies Institute. She also serves on the committee of the SETI Post-Detection Hub at the University of St Andrews and 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.