We All Eat From Each Other: The act of feeding in more-than-human entanglements
(2024)
author(s): Nesie Wang
published in: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
This thesis is an attempt to unfold multifaceted discussions in multispecies entanglements, focusing on the fundamental act of feeding—a process that extends beyond mere sustenance to become a critical interaction within the web of life. It interlaces a rich array of perspectives, combining academic research, artistic inquiry, and personal reflections to illuminate the diverse implications of feeding.
Urban Wild_Life: Exploring affective relationships with wild urban nature through creative digital practices
(2023)
author(s): Joanne Scott
published in: Research Catalogue
This research project arose from encounters with wild more than human beings in city spaces close to where I live. The encounters themselves were very rich, complex and flowing over with meanings and feelings that I couldn’t quite grasp in the moment of their happening. As a practitioner-researcher, I therefore chose to explore these feelings and meanings through creative practice, while also engaging in academic research to position these encounters in discourses, both directly relevant and those that resonate with the ideas and feelings arising. I characterise this as a project that aligns with and is productively informed by multispecies studies and practices. In its mixing of encounters with wild nature through primarily digital images and sounds, the practice activates an ‘ecology of technology’
Between plant fossils and oral histories: tracing vegetal imaginaries from Donbas, Ukraine
(2021)
author(s): Darya Tsymbalyuk
published in: RUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
This exposition brings together multiple contexts, narratives and modes of expression to tell multispecies (hi)stories about and from Donbas region, Ukraine, where a military conflict broke out in 2014. By engaging with fossils, paleobotany and testimonies of internally displaced persons, the exposition explores vegetal imaginaries of the region in a series of drawings and questions stories we tell about Donbas and displacement, and ways in which we tell them.
Multispecies Vocal Weaving
(last edited: 2025)
author(s): Ragnheiður Erla Björnsdóttir
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
This artistic research project reflects on the hidden dimensions of nonhuman sounding and how to remain present to them without seeking to capture or define them. It asks: How can artistic and ecological approaches to sound support ways of being-with nonhuman sounding that remain present to its hidden dimensions within the mesh and entangled relations?
Working from the premise that certain nonhuman soundings are either inaudible (e.g., infrasound, ultrasound) or ineffable (sensed through relational, embodied presence but resistant to articulation) for humans, this research draws on the typology proposed by Farina, Elridge, and Li (2021), which distinguishes latent and sensed soundscapes. Rather than aiming to access or translate these phenomena, the project adopts a methodology grounded in situated presence, sonic relationality, and perceptual partiality.
This approach combines embodied listening practices, field recording (using hydrophones and geophones), spectrographic analysis, and reflective artistic methods, including video-art, photography, instrument-sculpture building, creative writing, and composition. These practices are framed as composting: a slow, durational process through which sonic encounters are digested, broken down, and recombined over time, continually shifting, decaying, and generating new knowledge and thinking, rather than being fully captured (Haraway 2016).
The research is situated within and contributes to what König (2024) describes as a polyphonic transformation in artistic practice: a shift away from centralized spectacle and global expansion toward small-scale, locally rooted artistic actions that cultivate resonant, relational exchange. Following Haraway’s (2016) call to “stay with the trouble,” this project does not seek resolution or revelation, but cultivates attentiveness to what remains unknowable and to the entangled conditions from which nonhuman sounding emerges.
Terrestrial Debris
(last edited: 2025)
author(s): Ali Williams
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
My investigation into multispecies entanglements goes specifically to the divide between the day-to-day life that
people live and the attendance to their self-interests, and the overwhelm they feel about the impact of humans on the environment. The conflict of power to influence that impact leads to denial and despair. I am interested in that divide. My attention to this area, to losses not only large but small, draws attention and makes visible the losses and transformations that are constantly but slowly and subtly occurring from moment to moment - to imagine the lose-ability of the more-than-human life. In the iterations of this ongoing project, I enact the practices of vigilant mourning.
This thesis is an attempt to unfold multifaceted discussions in multispecies entanglements, focusing on the fundamental act of feeding—a process that extends beyond mere sustenance to become a critical interaction within the web of life. It interlaces a rich array of perspectives, combining academic research, artistic inquiry, and personal reflections to illuminate the diverse implications of feeding.open exposition comments (0)
This research project arose from encounters with wild more than human beings in city spaces close to where I live. The encounters themselves were very rich, complex and flowing over with meanings and feelings that I couldn’t quite grasp in the moment of their happening. As a practitioner-researcher, I therefore chose to explore these feelings and meanings through creative practice, while also engaging in academic research to position these encounters in discourses, both directly relevant and those that resonate with the ideas and feelings arising. I characterise this as a project that aligns with and is productively informed by multispecies studies and practices. In its mixing of encounters with wild nature through primarily digital images and sounds, the practice activates an ‘ecology of technology’open exposition comments (0)
This exposition brings together multiple contexts, narratives and modes of expression to tell multispecies (hi)stories about and from Donbas region, Ukraine, where a military conflict broke out in 2014. By engaging with fossils, paleobotany and testimonies of internally displaced persons, the exposition explores vegetal imaginaries of the region in a series of drawings and questions stories we tell about Donbas and displacement, and ways in which we tell them.open exposition comments (0)
My investigation into multispecies entanglements goes specifically to the divide between the day-to-day life that people live and the attendance to their self-interests, and the overwhelm they feel about the impact of humans on the environment. The conflict of power to influence that impact leads to denial and despair. I am interested in that divide. My attention to this area, to losses not only large but small, draws attention and makes visible the losses and transformations that are constantly but slowly and subtly occurring from moment to moment - to imagine the lose-ability of the more-than-human life. In the iterations of this ongoing project, I enact the practices of vigilant mourning.open exposition comments (0)