Drift of Avreselka
The Drift of the Avreselka is a one-day collective exploration of relational, multispecies ways of caring.
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10 Jun Sat 20:00 CEST
The Drift of the Avreselka is a one-day collective exploration of multispecies and relational ways of caring. The human artists, designers, and researchers practicing the Drift of Avreselka move with Oslo’s Akerselva river in emergent patterns and feral forms. They are invited to step into an alternative present shaped around Akerselva as an other-than-human creature that is intensely alive, calling humans to join a feral-synthetic ritual and drift-with the fluid boundaries of local more-than-human realities.
Organised in collaboration with the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, the Drift invites local students and pedagogues to join artists, designers, and researchers from Aalto, RMIT, and Uroboros to come together and move with the river, collect sensory observations, share reflections, and make sense of multispecies relationalities in and around the river.
Event Schedule:
10:00 – Enrique Encinas (Oslo School of Architecture and Design) – Welcome to Avreselka
11:00 – Drift up the river starts, events continue on the way
13:00 – Markéta Dolejšová (Aalto University) – Sensing with Multispecies Ecologies
15:00 – Jaz Hee-jeong Choi (RMIT Australia) – Feral Mapping
17:00 – Josina Vink (Oslo School of Architecture and Design) – Drifting with Care
19:00 Reflections / connections
Outcomes of the Drift are to be shared at the Uroboros 2023 festival: Feral Bodies, Synthetic Rituals (November – December / Prague and online).
Enrique Encinas
Enrique Encinas (they/he) is a design researcher exploring the patterns and textures formed by (other than) + humans and technologies through creative, critical and collaborative practices. He works as Associate Professor in Interaction Design at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO). They have co-lead projects involving governmental, artistic and educational institutions such as the European Union Policy Lab, the Centre for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona (CCCB) or SpeculativeEDU.
Markéta Dolejšová
Markéta Dolejšová is a practice-based researcher working across participatory art and design to explore the shapeshifting dynamics of more-than-human coexistence and the changing relations among humans, nature, and technology. She is currently affiliated as a postdoctoral research fellow at Aalto University - School of Arts, Design and Architecture (FI) and has co-founded several art-design research initiatives including the Uroboros festival, the Open Forest Collective, the Feeding Food Futures network, and the Fermentation GutHub. In 2020-22 she worked with the CreaTures – Creative Practices for Transformational Futures EU project where she led the Laboratory of experimental artistic productions.
Jaz Hee-jeong Choi
Jaz Hee-jeong Choi is an Associate Professor in Civic Interaction Design at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. Their transdisciplinary research and practice situate ‘care’ at the core of transformational encounters in different settings ranging from cities as complex cyberphysical networks to forests as moving creatures. They build on this to explore how radical transformation can materialise care-fully through creative-critical engagements. Their current research, practice, and engagement focus on the dynamics of creative practice as feral care with a particular interest in awe in immersive art.