Politics of Perceiving with Rosalie Bak & Margherita Soldati
The workshop Politics of Perceiving explores how perception shapes the deep and layered relationship between our bodies and the soil. We’ll use the sensitive body as our main way of engaging with the world around us. The workshop unfolds in three parts: perceiving, relating, and storytelling.
We begin by tuning into the subtle sensations of the perceptive and responsive body, through guided exercises rooted in the principles of Haptonomy—an approach that emphasizes touch and emotional connection.
From there, we extend our attention outward, connecting with other beings—such as potatoes and soil—through touch, movement, and presence. Together, we’ll explore how our bodies and minds can help us sense different kinds of relationships, using homemade bokashi ink to map and express these interactions.
We’ll end with a shared moment around the compost pit—a space for reflection and exchange, where we peel and compost stories of interdependence and ecological care. The ongoing research project Soil to Self to Soil, along with the practice of cultivating potatoes, will serve as a soft guide in this final part.
Traces of our time together—compost, bokashi ink, drawings, and maps—will remain in the exhibition space, open for interaction by both visitors and future workshop participants.
Rosalie Bak and Margherita Soldati explore how artistic, empirical, and embodied research can be combined to deepen the understanding and integration of knowledge about ecosystem health. They also investigate how this approach can help make research outcomes more accessible and relatable across different disciplines.
As an artist and haptonomist, Rosalie Bak works at the intersection of affective research, embodiment, and spatial practices, with a strong focus on ecology, art, and somatic care. Margherita Soldati is an artist whose work explores themes such as diagnosis, immunity, and the relationship between food and the senses, often in collaboration with scientists and communities.
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Participation is free, but donations are very welcome.
