A Practical Guide to Ecological Divination
Performance Lecture by Crawlers
Esoteric Algorithms & Re-enchanted Technologies
About the event
Storytelling is a tool for making sense of troubling times. This might explain the rise in popularity of divination systems like Astrology and Tarot in recent years. The origin of the ecological crisis is disputed, but the schism between science and magic is one node that can be easily traced. The dominator systems of empire, capitalism, organised religion and patriarchy have erased the symbiosis of these paradigms, to the detriment of knowledge. We see cartomancy not as a form of determinism, but as a system of making sense and of finding patterns. In this performance lecture, we defy the separation of these practices, by exploring the role of narrative construction via the random arrangement of ecological archetypes informed by the tradition of Tarot. Crawlers member Lyndsey Walsh will lead an uncovering of the ongoing research of Ecological Divination and explore what meaning we may be able to collectively make by consulting ecomancy knowledge through the oikos, the aether, and the archive.
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Artists
Crawlers is a feral creative collaboration between symbionts Lyndsey Walsh and Jess Cockerill. Crawlers is also a writhing, tangled cluster of biological science, visual art, horror cinema, wild technology, new-age mythology and a morbid fascination with the afterlife.
Jess Cockerill is an Australian artist, writer and creative producer based in Naarm (Melbourne) with a background in digital journalism, conservation biology and illustration. Lyndsey Walsh is an artist, writer, and researcher from the United States and based in Berlin, DE.
Both Jess and Lyndsey’s creative practices follow an ecocentric approach, drawing on their own experiences of queerness and disability in order to commune with living networks that are either politely ignored or actively rejected under present regimes. Working together as Crawlers, the artists are symbionts - not masters - of their environments: stirring up the debris, composting data, turning over the soil, rewiring the undergrowth.
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