Foreshadowing Public Launch

Foreshadowing Public Launch

Join us for the launch of Foreshadowing, the transnational ecological grief council.

By Delfina Foundation

Date and time

Thursday, May 22 · 10am - 5:30pm GMT+1

Location

Delfina Foundation

29-31 Catherine Place London SW1E 6DY United Kingdom

Agenda

10:00 AM - 10:15 AM

Welcome and Housekeeping

Erin Li

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM

Entering

Chiara Famengo

Youngsook Choi

Opening up the collective space (Chiara Famengo) Ecological grief as climate interrogation and interspecies solidarity (Youngsook Choi)

10:45 AM - 11:15 AM

Holding Memories

Khanysile Mbongwa

A cleansing ritual for the ground of decolonial gathering in the form of sonic meditation.

11:15 AM - 11:30 AM

Tea/Coffee break

11:45 AM - 12:45 PM

River Witnessing

Wen Di Sia

Linh Le

Wen Di shares ‘When Rivers Get Enclosed’ - endangered spiritual practices around river systems in Peninsular Malaysia’s forests, and Linh shares ‘Remembering through River’- archiving as witnessing t...

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Lunch

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Exploring Transnational Solidarity and Activism

Paul Goodwin

Hannah Davey

Jess Wan

Hannah shares her transnational experiences supporting artists into activism, and her collaborative climate justice organising as part of Liberate Tate and Greenpeace UK, reflected by Paul through hi...

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Interspecies Solace (parallel programmes)

Chiara Famengo

Youngsook Choi

Jess Wan

Let the algae speak (Chiara Famengo, first floor library) A listening and tea-tasting session with and for the communities at the lagoon’s edges—algae. A moment to reflect on the role they have play...

3:15 PM - 3:30 PM

Tea/Coffee break

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Grief with bots (WT)

Dennis Dizon

Erin Li

Dennis shares their research on the Intersection between ecological affection and networked media, exploring the thanatechnology and the future of artificially-intelligent grief bots. Moderated by Er...

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Listening sticks

Hannah Davey

Emily Gee

Co-creation workshop exploring intersections between art, activism and climate justice. Wrapping material gathered up by the Foreshadowing members, and reflections from the room via Emily Gee’s third...

5:30 PM

Eco-grief procession with Listening Sticks to St. James Park.

A picnic for further informal conversation on how to get involved in eco-grief.

About this event

  • Event lasts 7 hours 30 minutes

Foreshadowing is the transnational ecological grief council. It was born out of the necessity to collectively witness the environmental loss by the extractive operations of neo/colonial capitalism. It aims to build a planetary pedagogy of love by addressing those who are no longer with us or won’t be soon, exploring site-specific, community-oriented, multi-species healing methods. Founded in 2023, Foreshadowing has gathered the force of practitioners whose lifelong dedication is a creative conviction of interrogating, archiving, and organising around environmental violence and interspecies trauma. After one and a half years of internal brewing and mutual nourishment, Foreshadowing opens its door to public conversations, supported by Necessity, Delfina Foundation, and the Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation, UAL.

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Delfina Foundation

Delfina Foundation is an independent, non-profit foundation dedicated to facilitating artistic exchange and developing creative practice through residencies, partnerships and public programming.