storytelling

  • reclaiming our ancestors

    reclaiming our ancestors

    ‘Western’ is increasingly used as synonym for rationalist and mechanistic worldviews, and yet these became dominant only in recent European history. According to scholar Silvia Federici and writer Amitav Ghosh, the narratives upheld by European elites to justify systemic violence and oppression, both inherent to imperialism and the witch hunts, were inextricably linked with the…

  • seafaring message bearers

    seafaring message bearers

    Windswept treeless headland on the edge of the Barents Sea. Feet moving cautiously, quietly sinking at every step as they press stones and plastic remains beneath, so that the hard and fragile bodies are made to speak to each other as they rub and crash, caress and grind. Sea swelling, waves breaking. Round, smooth, chestnut…