The interdisciplinary project CONNECTING ECOSYSTEMS aims to develop and foster a dialogue around sustainability, ecological and social justice within today’s fast changing and globally entangled environments. As a post documenta fifteen initiative, the approach is to make friends, not art and to build relationships by collaborating in artistic practices. Thus, building and strengthening a community around community gardening/farming and social questions by doing events, spending time and working together.
Throughout this ongoing process of connecting and sharing the margins of CONNECTING ECOSYSTEMS are always porous and welcoming to every new input and friend: In entering conversations we can learn and build together.
In exploring these questions in workshops, talks and artworks our point of view remains focussed on specific localities impacted by global networks. Being founded in Kassel by Edible City e.V. the project visits and establishes meeting points of gardening interventions within the cities of Jatiwangi, Jakarta and Dhaka to exchange local practices across diverse communities and landscapes.
Now, that the project is over one year old, we are coming back to Kassel to harvest and share all knowledge collected and to invite friends from Indonesia and Bangladesh to collaborate again.
Recording of the radio show “Forum Experimentell” from September 1, 2024. In this episode, Karsten and Amber discuss the “Connecting Ecosystems” events that took place over the past two weeks in Kassel.
Ella von der Haide gave workshop at Kelompak Tani Hutan Kumbang about how to make and use an Audio Walk through a local food system.
The Perhutana project represents a robust and highly commendable journey towards a sustainable future, signifying a significant ecological transformation that will profoundly impact land use and life quality in Jatiwangi.
W.A.L.D.- Performativer SpaziergangPost-anthropozentrischer Zirkus TERMIN: 23 08 2024, 18h–19:30hTreffpunkt: Trambahn Haltestelle Hessenschanze, Kassel Aus der Mensch-Baum-Kooperation zwischen Ella von der
When we first arrived in Jakarta, in the beginning of November, we brought the first rain of the season with us. Heavy thick drops pattered intensely from the clouds and within minutes the streets were filled knee high.
“tinyUH means brew in Sundanese, while there is a small word ‘tiny’ whose members consist of small entrepreneurs who live in a small city in Indonesia called Majalengka.
10.August – 30. September 2024
Kassel (Germany)
Md. Khairul Alam (Shada) is a visual artist and filmmaker in Dhaka, Bangladesh. whose work is deeply rooted in the exploration of the complexities of human emotions, the human mind, and ecological concerns.
In his work he explores the relationship between ecology and modern industrialization and its impact on ecosystems. His use of media spans video, drawing, found objects, and installations.
He is active artist member of the artist-run non -profit collective Britto Arts Trust, he was participant as a film maker with Britto Arts Trust in Documenta Fifteen in Germany(2022).
Kazi Sydul Karim Tuso, a multidisciplinary artist and architect based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, works with installations, drawings, and traditional crafts. He collaborates with old craftsmen to preserve and reinterpret gradually forgotten oriental culture through his art. Since 2020, Tuso has been affiliated with Britto Arts Trust and was part of the design team for installations like the Social Kitchen and Social Garden at Documenta Fifteen.
