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This debate examines ecocide caused by war: the large-scale and often long-lasting destruction of ecosystems through armed conflict.

Moderator and journalist Selma Franssen brings together perspectives from the worlds of art, law and research, with artist and researcher Marjolijn Dijkman; Omar Ferwati, an architect and researcher at Forensic Architecture; and artist, architect and researcher Shayma Nader and Babs Verhoeve, an expert in environmental justice and environmental crime at the Belgian Federal Government. This programme is part of ‘The Foragers,’ organised by VUB Crosstalks.

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Organised by LUCA’s Arts & Society expertise network, ENACT Festival presents innovative forms of transmission of research methodologies – from LUNÄ Talks, costumed round-table enactments, reworkings of oral traditions of song and storytelling, to radio essay as a research and expository medium.

The ‘LUNÄ Talk: Turbid Ecologies’ on November 5th, on a full moon, will explore how Enlightenment thought, the Industrial Revolution, and colonization have shaped and influenced water bodies, tracing their material and immaterial residues in sediment and flow. The discussion will critically address current practices of water “management” and the paradigm shifts needed to restore both aquatic ecosystems and our relations with the more-than-human world.

Contributors: Merve Bedir, Marjolijn Dijkman, Ifor Duncan, Shivant Jhagroe, Annelies Kuypers
Hosts: Marjolijn Dijkman and Maarten Vanden Eynde (Update: tickets sold out)

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This seminar creates a public forum that brings together international scholars and artists from a plurality of backgrounds. It addresses the significant shift that is currently taking place across the sciences and arts, challenging binary distinctions such as nature–culture, human–nonhuman, mind–matter, reason–emotion and subject–object. Within the humanities and social sciences, this shift is often referred to as the ‘relational turn’. Rather than emphasising human exceptionalism, it problematises this notion and instead highlights interconnectedness, mutuality, kinship and the entanglement of all beings within complex ecological and cosmological networks.

With: Kocku von Stuckrad, Tim Rudbøg, Marjolijn Dijkman, Christiane Bosman, Anne de Andrade, Thais Di Marco, Roberto Jones Romo, Michael Schüßler, Whitney A. Bauman, Angela Marie Snæfellsjökuls Rawlings, and Manon Hedenborg White.

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The research project ‘Silt Whisperers’ (Slibfluisteraars) explores how artists can make more-than-human perspectives tangible and experiential, ensuring that the shift toward sustainable material use happens holistically, with care for both people and the planet. This research responds to developments surrounding the applications of silt along the Groningen coast.

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Second walk in the series with Marjolijn Dijkman, Carla Alma and Lotte Jensen. ‘Waker, Slaper, Dromer’ (Watcher, Sleeper, Dreamer) is a series of three walks named after the poetic names and functions of dike systems in the Netherlands.

These events connect artistic research, dike construction, ecology, philosophy and regional history and offer an in-depth look at the landscape through contributions from various experts, each with their unique and local knowledge. These walks are organized as part of Dijkman’s WaterLANDS artist residency.

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This ARIA seminar will be dedicated to interdisciplinary research and the arts, with a special focus on collaboration between the arts and the exact sciences.

The seminar aims to foster collaboration and position ARIA as an active partner in interdisciplinary research projects that engage with pressing societal challenges such as ecology, health, and technology.

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10.02.2025
Planetary Poetics, Artist Talks 2025, Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, NL
17:00 at the Theory Stairs

26.02.2025
Artist Talk, Technology Driven Art, ZUYD, Maastricht, NL
14:00 Grote zaal, Toneelacademie Maastricht

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‘Waker, Slaper, Dromer’ (Watcher, Sleeper, Dreamer) is a series of three walks named after the poetic names and functions of dike systems in the Netherlands. These walks are organized by artist Marjolijn Dijkman as part of her WaterLANDS artist residency (2023-2026), which focuses on ecological restoration and depoldering in the context of the Ems-Dollard estuary in the North of the Netherlands.

During the first joint walk, ‘De Waker’ (The Watcher), together with artist Marjolijn Dijkman, botanical archeologist Mans Schepers and landscape philosopher Eric Brinckmann, we look at elements in the newly shaped Twin Dyke landscape and the broader context of the estuary and interpret it from the perspective of the watcher in a broad sense.

How does this newly formed landscape affect our relationship with this environment and the uncontrolled estuary beyond the dikes? What can we learn from this new landscape, and how does it relate to the past of Groningen with mound communities that lived in the salt marshes? (Dutch only)

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New website for ‘Waker, Slaper, Dromer’ (Watcher, Sleeper, Dreamer), a series of three walks named after the poetic names and functions of dike systems in the Netherlands. Here, the ‘watcher’ protects against the outside water first, and the inland ‘sleeper’ catches any breach. Behind this sleeper sometimes lies another ‘dreamer.’

These walks are organized by artist Marjolijn Dijkman as part of her WaterLANDS artist residency (2023-2026). She reflects on ecological restoration and depoldering in the context of the Ems-Dollard estuary and surrounding landscape in the North of the Netherlands.

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Why is land art particularly relevant today? What are its new manifestations? How do we deal with these often impermanent works of art? And how does land art shed light on the urgent ecological and social issues of today?

International conference on the future of land art, with Humberto Moro of the Dia Art Foundation (USA), Lisa Le Feuvre of the Holt/Smithson Foundation (USA), Britta Peters of Urbane Künste Ruth (GER) and many others.

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On the evening of 25 March, when the moon is full, this LUNÄ Talk will focus on the transition from one energy to another, from one infrastructure to another. How can we envisage transitions without considering the need to bring history to a close before embarking on new projects? The history of energy is written as a race towards the new, towards renewal, without ever questioning the possibility of moving towards solutions of repair or transformation. It’s about turning pages and arguing that the future will be more efficient, appropriate, or cleaner.

Contributors: Fanny Lopez, Clémence André, Marie Lechner, Stéphanie Schmitt, and a written contribution by Cara New Daggett.
Hosted by: Marjolijn Dijkman & Maarten Vanden Eynde

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The evening will be dedicated to what has been described as “green colonialism,” the development of renewable energy futures that often involves the dispossession of communities and the degradation of ecosystems. The event will focus on the consequences of the extraction of lithium, a scarce resource that plays a key role in the so-called green transition necessary for a more sustainable world. With: Marina Otera Verzier, Sammy Baloji and On-Trade-Off (Femke Herregraven, Alexis Destoop).

The evening will be followed by a conversation, moderated by Nikolaus Hirsch and Silvia Franceschini, and Electrify Everything, a performance by Pom Bouvier-b and Marjolijn Dijkman (with a text by Jean Katambayi Mukendi).

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LASER Talk with Frank Theys, Eva- Maria Lopez, Ronny Blust, Edith Doove, Marjolijn Dijkman, Florian Zanatta. MAXLab invites artists and scientists working at the intersection of art and technology to a debate on reintroducing the human element at the center of scientific and technological progress and the role of the arts in this.

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From the 1st of October 2023, Marjolijn Dijkman will be part of the artistic research cluster Deep Histories Fragile Memories as a Ph.D. candidate at LUCA – School of Arts Brussels / Leuven University under the supervision of Wendy Morris. Research of the members of dhfm engages with the recuperation of marginalised histories, with ecologies and situated enquiries, with experimental writing, listening, and the shaping of new narratives.

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This Tryday, artist Marjolijn Dijkman, composer Henry Vega, percussion instrument maker Orlando Aguilar Velazquez and electro-technician Lukas Pol will share the first robotic experiments for the film and sound installation Between the Lines (work in progress). Between the Lines will trace the monumental impact of climate change, industrialization, and the First World War in the polluted and traumatized landscapes of the ‘Zone Rouge’ in the North East of France.

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Aquatic Tales presents three films that merge elements of documentary, fiction and abstraction, with water and aquatic life as central elements. The films reflect upon our relationship with water and thereby express a critical view on industrial and capitalist practices that distance us from nature.

With films by: Marjolijn Dijkman & Toril Johannessen, Tanja Engelberts, Patrick Hough.

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The first LUNÄ talk in the US with a brand new copy of the table around which the Lunar Society met on full moon between 1765 and 1813 in Birmingham, UK. LUNÄ will be inaugurated on the last day of the exhibition Ars Memoriae surrounded by the artworks. Drawing inspiration from the themes of Ars Memoriae, the topic will be memory devices – past and future, bodily and external, real and imagined. The featured speakers are André Fenton, a neuroscientist at NYU; Elaine Sullivan, a curatorial fellow at The Met; Congolese artist Musasa; Jennifer Tucker, a historian at Wesleyan University.

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“Some species are more attractive to us than others. Whether we like it or not, we have a hierarchy of living things. Until recently, animals took precedence over plants. Today, plants have reclaimed their place and are at the heart of countless scientific studies, artistic creations, discourses and theories. Some, however, are more desirable than others. The tree is one of these emblematic plants that we love. It is one of the main themes of this Rencontre LASER, part of the Roots & Seeds XXI European project. Biodiversity crisis and plant resistance, of which Leonardo/Olats is a partner.” (LASER Talk in French)

With: Amandine Cornille, Marjolijn Dijkman, Marc-Williams Debono

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Auscultation is a public and experimental launch of the “Between the Lines” project in collaboration with Vent des Forêts at Festival Les Nuits des Forêts. Day with two gatherings with: Office National de Forets, CA et forêt privée, COFOR and artist Marjolijn Dijkman.

During the experimental session Auscultation, we can hear how long sound frequencies resonate in the trees and whether or not they are interrupted. The duration of resonance is influenced by the amount of water in the trees, the density of the wood, and whether the trees are alive or dead.

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The COAL Prize dedicates its 2021 edition to the crucial issue of forests at the center of the climate crisis and ecological transition. Nominated artists: Karin Bolender (US), Marjolijn Dijkman (NL), Sara Favriau (FR), Collectif Fibra (PE), Julie C. Fortier (CN), Beya Gille Gacha (FR), Noémie Goudal (FR), Vincent Laval (FR), Erik Samakh (FR), Feda Wardak (FR). Award ceremony 16 June 2021.
Created in 2010 by the COAL association, the COAL Prize has in ten years become a vehicle for the identification, promotion and dissemination of artists all over the world who dare to imagine and experiment, to transform territories, lifestyles, organizations and production methods.

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Sonic Acts Academy is a three-day festival at the intersection of innovative audio-visual and performative art and critical thinking, motivated by changes in the ecological, political, technological and social landscape.  The Academy also invites visitors to join for a conference that features cutting-edge emerging and well-known artistic voices.

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Georges Senga (member of Picha) and Marjolijn Dijkman (co-founder of Enough Room for Space) will introduce ‘On-Trade-Off’, an artistic trajectory initiated by the artists’ initiatives Picha (Lubumbashi, DRC) and Enough Room for Space (Brussels, BE) and some of the works they have developed within this project. Focusing on this one chemical element (Li3) allows the project to zoom in on particular social, ecological, economic and political phenomena that characterise the production processes currently experiencing rapid growth.

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In this Amsterdam edition – also moonlit – experts with different scholarly backgrounds will focus on the ecological, social and economic consequences of the extraction and processing of lithium and cobalt. They will look both at the history of electricity and the current use of raw materials from the DRC for electronics and energy storage.

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