Collective Rewilding

We had the pleasure of presenting an excerpt of our upcoming book project *”The Anti-Manual of Care and Accountability”* through an inter-species dialogue. This encounter was a happening in which we entered into a dream that the Colombian artist Nicolas Paris had for more-than-human thinking and posthuman unlearning!

Thank you Nicolas and Jesus Fuenmayor for the invitation to dream together in this gathering of radical pedagogies.

@collectiverewilding has created this incomplete and partial anti-manual to guide the actions and relations we create as curators inquiring into the possibilities of transforming our paradigms from re-presention to re-existance.

This document is not a guide.
It is a refusal of guidance.
It is not a map.
It is the ground shifting beneath us.

It begins with questions—questions that precede method, precede mastery, precede knowledge:

What infrastructures—material, conceptual, or spiritual—must we build to sustain these plural worlds in coexistence? And what role might art, curation, and cultural institutions play in cultivating the sensibilities required to live in a world fundamentally composed of many worlds?

What methodologies emerge when we take seriously the proposition that reality is plural—not metaphorically, but ontologically? How might such a stance reshape the ways we conduct research, curate exhibitions, or build institutions capable of attending to more-than-human modes of existence?

As a permeable working document, this provocation delineates a set of principles that may allow us to situate ourselves and orient our thinking. This re-orientation is guided by materials, experiences, and teachings that come from a variety of scholars and artists, many of whom think with and alongside the earth and more-than-human entities.

Stay tuned for more !! 🌱🌱💥

Drawing: Patricia Dominguez
“Matrix Vegetal; reorder my hologram in its best version” 2021
Watercolour on paper
70 x 51 cms
Wellcome Collection

📸 Cordelia Kapfer