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Concrete

Practices that affect land, forest and river ecologies

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Imaginary idea

Romantic, bucolic

Nature vs human

Uferweg property belongs to AXPO, the hydroelectric company

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Modernist war building

Safety obsession, CH as neutral country but ready in case of war

Presence today?

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Border - Napoleon instated the CH/De border at the Rhein

Border seems closer since covid

Andrea: Going out of a situation (of feeling paralyzed because of quarantine) our bodies transforming the triangle (body-city-river)

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Our home: Spittel (hospitality)

Town has a triangle shape

25% foreigners

Small community, 400 people

Fish market in the middle fountain. The place where fish were slayed and sold is where we created the oracle.

Is care possible without being rooted/sense of belonging/desire/love? How does a sense of solidarity develops?

Costs of maintaining the old buildings, national heritage, historical space, sleeping beauty

New investment: construction developments (apartments) to increase inhabitants

The tower was “cleansed” from the undesirable wolf weed a few decades ago, because the climbing plant ruins walls. Caterina explained how it is a neophyte that is often killed in the forest for this same reason, it is believed that it is a parasite that kills the host. She says that on the contrary, they only grow in trees that are about to die, and help the process of building up hummus for the forest floor.

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Archetype of Violence - disappeared women, mass graves, body+blood, Las locas de las Palas (women with the job of finding mass graves in Latinamerica) - women and resistance, knowledge of topography, morphology of land in its description of death

Archetype of Uteruses, caves, holes.

Goddesses - female shape, body dimension, gestures, what do our bodies create, do, change?

Gender essentialism, female specificity in Ana Mendieta´s artworks. :S (let´s queerify Mendieta! Let´s make the idea that nature+spirituality are female-only characteristics, diversify pliiiiis)

Presences --- siluetas, memorials/monuments, situated knowledge --- support system, context passing through us, our presence there

Shape of fire, the siluet:first fire looked like an ant, with waste, curves. The center is the place to cook, center of productivity,, food, community, dialogue, labor

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Death Instinct vs. Life Instinct: separation, dynamic change, individuality, development, progress vs preservation, reproduction, maintenance, survival, equilibrium

(take care that a maintenance system does not feed back the death instinct)

Trenten y Caicai

They are two snakes, make the land grow

4 elements

Movement inside the earth, to be covered in time and history

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Sur, by Ursula Le Guin, read by Caterina Giansiracusa

Borderlands/La Frontera: La Nueva mestiza, by Gloria Anzaldua, read by Paloma

Las Ñañas, by Andrea Herrera Poblete, read by herself

Dear Gloria, by Paloma Ayala

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Community rituals/workshops                        Roots, sense of belonging

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Community rituals/workshops                        Roots, sense of belonging

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Mapuche women: ceremonies to ask for permission (to the river, clash stones)

Stone ritual - linked to resistance of Mapuche women, to connect with the river spirits, make a relationship to the water, when you glean, you fish

Greeting the 4 elements, the 4 directions. Feel present, feel respect, say hello, way to honor life, make space to think about how our bodies interact with the elements. Led by Jocelyn López

River Meditation. Led by Jocelyn López

Fire Breathing, morning meditations led by Jocelyn López

River Oracle, creation and comparison to Tarot, with Anne-laure and Riikka

Heart beat ritual to start the day, led by Riikka

Bread sculpture / Yeast and wheat/ storytelling workshop- by Caterina

Hybrid beings, fragmented bodies and fragmented stories. Reconstituting a body by breaking it apart.

Hermaphrodite species, able to change genders.

Stories of mutation.

River/light plant prints- Cynotypes on the Rhein River, led by AL

Construction of holes and fire pits-

Earth, caves, holes, uteruses

Centers of power, origin, creativity, sexual energy, life force, living energy

Fire is food. Fire is home, preservation.

What rituals can be created around our fire?

What stories can be told there, by whom?

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DIY

Open source
Accessible

Commoning vs Appropriation 

What to share and how? Authorship and copyright issues/questions
What can/should be open source? Who is giving/taking?

Intellectual commons - sustainability while producing knowledge

What makes the best communities? - commons - goods, education, space, intellectual, cannot be privatised, 

Have support systems - different levels of presence

Set rules to harvest in a common pot of knowledge --- 

Popular/common knowledge, oral history
Wisdom, layers of experience
Waves of consciousness, trends, codes, languages
Family trade, secrets of the knowhow, savoir faire

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Savory brennessel cake

Crostini and Vegetables soup

Boating/Rafting/?
Aluminum long boats roaming the current created by the hydroelectric plant.
2 people of the same body structure on each boat.
With one pair of spiky paddles, they push the boat against the flow on the south side of the river, in equal motion and strength, When they get close enough to the turbines, they let go. Then, they take the second, rounder, set of paddles, and roam back along the flow, across the river.
They return to the beginning, moving always in circles.
(History of transporting goods in the Rhein, Europe)

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Our Everyday life methodologies (the ground) Figuring out groundness, what are we doing?Figuring out direction: sharing questions 

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Our Everyday life methodologies (the ground) Figuring out groundness, what are we doing?Figuring out direction: sharing questions 

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Pile Politics = frame of rules, motivatiosn + emotions, methodology always customizable collectively. Compost is life, creates fertile soil, interaction of materials, development of processes.

Leave everybody the freedom to choose/participate how they want → regulates moments of tension
Give space for ideas to emerge ---> have more space between tasks, observe flows and energy exchanges
Voice out intentions/expectations → establish common grounds
Prioritize work, make limits
Take time, negotiate space
Have a healthcare routine
Have feedback → share feelings
Realization of collective wisdom

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Take rests

Thankfulness

Express wishes

Do in silence

Process: gradual Integration

Kronos (time) + Karos (flow) = take care, respect time towards an objective, do not fuck up the flow.

Learn how to learn = learn what we are living, be more aware. Look at both what we do, and what we are doing.

Balance giving and receiving

Have Generative Moments - create without producing, observe how things generate by themselves, approach situations with the body (use hands, stay outside), reject conceptualization, do together

Play

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Weaving twigs - interconnections/ constellations of people and space

Community Garden - La milpa (mexican ancestral knowledge of multiculture (as opposed of monocultures), Las Chinampas: floating structures that sustain several plants, beings at the same time and in rotation. Everything is interconnected.

Digging - in the same place, a hole, in its archeological sense, dig until you find, dig (transversal cut) to visibilize layers underneath. Unearth what is covered in time and history. Unearth the movements inside.

Making fire - igniting warmth, food, light, action. Sound and smell of burnt wood
Evocative (we have all had similar experiences), storytelling around the fire, playing music, dance, eat
Makes food taste better
Fire destroys and creates
Obstructive, destructive when out of control.

Cooking - Transformative power, transform materials, water, air, fire, earth elements. keep. maintain our bodies healthy, strong.
Zuchinni, potatoes that we unearthed

Swimming a flow next to an integrative flow - urban water, fresh water, reminders of human infrastructures everywhere. Oppressive sound, dominant constructions.

Cleaning -

Walking - Physical wandering, leads to be emotionally rooted in a place

Meditation

Share - sharing references and taking time to think together. Brainstorm.

Economical exchange - knowledge, food, things

Listening

Observing - Reference/recognition: as filiation or genealogy - tribute or solidarity, make knowledge survive.

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From Caterina:

Silviculture is the practice of controlling the growth, composition/structure, and quality of forests to meet values and needs, specifically timber production. Silviculture also focuses on making sure that the treatment(s) of forest stands are used to conserve and improve their productivity. (Wikipedia)

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Hydropower generation

56% of the energy in Switzerland comes from water, from rivers and dams.

The Rhein river: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4811295/

Initially the Rhine’s flow was used to generate hydroelectricity and coal transports, but in later decades also to cool nuclear power plants. This article explores the pivotal role of the Rhine in the construction and operation of the European power grid. Electric power was and is a vital part of Western European economic success.

In a pioneering article, Misa and Schot labelled the technological foundations as a form of “hidden integration”, as it was previously missed by European historians (Misa and Schot 2005; Kaiser and Schot 2014).13 In processes of a network-building, designing “Europe” has not always been the aim, but sometimes emerges as the outcome of attempts to manage “cross-border flows of people, goods, information, or energy” (Schipper and Schot 2011).

...cement, aluminum, coal and iron (Chandler 1990; Cioc 2002) mining were placed on the shores. The chemical industry followed in the slipstream of mining and metallurgical firms, leading to ever-increasing water and energy demands.

Switzerland harbored more Alpine hydropower than it could consume, while Germany owned considerable coal resources.

Ecological damages:

In a concrete Corset

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/river-journey_the-rhine-recovers--but-slowly/36571178

https://www.eawag.ch/fileadmin/Domain1/Beratung/Beratung_Wissenstransfer/Publ_Praxis/Factsheets/fs_hydropower_and_ecology_sep2011.pdf

“From the end of the 19th century man drastically corrected the river to protect against flooding.  The gain in farmland was offset by a loss in biodiversity.”

“It is clear as I follow the river that the numerous dams and hydroelectric plants interrupt the migratory routes of aquatic organisms. Dams also trap fine and coarse sediments like sand and gravel and wood debris which have an impact on wildlife and nature – like the natural reproduction of brown trout in the headwaters of the Alpine Rhine.”

“Hydropeaking – the sudden release of large volumes of river water through turbines during periods of high electricity demand – is one of the main problems… fish and other aquatic organisms can become stranded or washed away, fish spawning grounds destroyed, habitat reduced, and water temperature may be altered.”

Dredging in the delta opening to Lake Constance… to impede the flow of debris.

Chemical industry around Basel: Back in 1986 the Sandoz chemical accident turned the Rhine red.

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Construction materials

Kies

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Gardens-

Community, microgarden, plant rotatism

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Cartografía Sonora https://www.aoir.cl/ 

Virus TDS
virustds.hotglue.me 

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Ursula Le Guin -science fiction and feminism, imagination of a future planet

Gloria Anzaldúa - chicana queer scholar and writer

Paulo Freire - education for liberation, critical pedagogy, collective processes

Mariarosa Dalla Costa - 'Woman and the Subversion of the Community' - wages for housewives, power of women equals power of community

Silvia Federici - concept of -commons- , woman as sustaining economy and ecology

Audre Lorde - Power of the erotics

Masanobu Fukuoka - ‘natural farming’ or ‘do-nothing farming.’ - minimal human interference in the agricultural process, instead creating conditions in which natural processes, left to their own accord, maximise crop outputs . https://www.permaculturenews.org/2020/07/25/the-philosophy-of-masanobu-fukuoka/

Gilles Clement - The Planetary Garden, third landscape as ultimate space, wastelands as most diverse ecosystems
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/gillesclementenglish

Jaques Simon - Articulture https://dirt.asla.org/2016/05/16/the-legacy-of-jacques-simon/

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Ana Mendieta - ‘Siluetas’ series

Andrea Caretto, Rafaella Spagna - The river is full of everything, the river knows everything. Ask the river Yamuna. The river answers with drawings. https://www.esculenta.org/Khoj.pdf

Mierle Laderman Ukeles - economy and ecology, management of surroundings, “Maintenance Manifesto” , Exhibition ‘CARE’ 1969

https://queensmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Ukeles-Manifesto-for-Maintenance-Art-1969.pdf

Barbara Matilsky - ‘Fragile Ecologies: Contemporary Artists' Interpretations and Solutions’

Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro - ‘Womanhouse’, life with female students, pedagogical experiment, Boobs and eggs everywhere. https://mcachicago.org/Publications/Websites/West-By-Midwest/Research/Topics/Womanhouse

Tacita Dean - my work is the guest, I discover and link fragments.

Fernel Guedon - folklore, natural materials, agriculture, crafts

Derek Jarman - garden as artwork, as therapy

https://thenatureofarttherapy.wordpress.com/2018/09/23/the-garden-and-botanical-interventions/

G. Baruchello - Agricola Cornelia, food as creature, taking care of the land is a way of creating art https://www.fondazionebaruchello.com/agricola-cornelia-spa

Maria Lai- artist working with communities and landscape, bread sculptures https://www.chrisgibsonart.com/blog/book-as-domestic-object-maria-lai/

Vivir Quintana - “Canción sin miedo”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLLyzqkH6cs

Maria Puig della Bellacasa - Matters of Care