During the first gathering of this three-part series, artistic researcher ro heinrich invited us to reflect on practices of relationality. We engaged together with ro’s filmic work-in-progress, The Being of Relation, alongside fragments from texts by Erin Manning and Brian Massumi.

Guided by her current collaborative research and film project, Weaving conversations at the end of the world as we know it – involving Erin Manning, Tyson Yunkaporta, fabrice dubosc, and artist initiatives like Reschooling With, among others -, we discussed ideas of thought in movement, ecology as relation itself, and processes of learning and unlearning.

Participants: Erica Biolchini, antje nestel, Aion Arribas, Smaragda Nitsopoulou, Hosein Danesh, Jerry Ruijter, sher doruff, Ruth Legg, Isabel Cordeiro, Abla elBahrawy, Zoénie Deng, Yulia Tikhomirova, Xiaoyue Xu, Jop Koopman, Sara Gelao, Laura Dubourjal, fabrice dubosc, Sofía Fernández Blanco, Nisha Ha, xueni yang, Nienke Scholts, shailoh, Teresa, Aliki van der Kruijs, Mariska van der Berg, Aldo E. Ramos, Lou Boshaet.

About the series

weaving stories is a series by ARIAS in which an artist-researcher is invited to share their practice unfolding over several sessions together with participants; all are welcome to join. In these critical times when the scope of exchanges is consistently reduced, we would like to offer spaces for an ecology of practices, where different perspectives and ways of knowing may be engaged relationally towards difference without separability.

Co-creating conditions of possibilities at the end of the world as we know it is co-curated by ro heinrich and fabrice dubosc, in collaboration with ARIAS, Framer Framed and Reschooling With.