DOTE Garden: Seeding Stories and Relations
DOTE Garden is a physical space in the city of Palermo, conceived and cared for by the collective Aterraterra. It is born out of Listening to Seeds, the third moment in our Year of Listening. You can visit the garden by reading the stories of the seeds that have been planted in it. Stories sprout […]
Resonance Between Cairo & Amsterdam
Two Labs, Spells & Incantations for Birth, Death & Rebirth – a somatic practice & fiction creation lab led by Sara Fakhry Ismail and Halim Ramses in Cairo, and Through Understanding in the Between led by Dina Mohamed in Amsterdam, nourished the bones of Between Death& Birth, the December moment in the DOTE year of listening. Works created in the Labs […]
Walking with Grief Traces – entangled geographies
Mazen Al Ashkar created this video art showing traces around the world of trees where people walked in Walking with Grief. Inan Nesbitt asked the following questions during one of the audios: How does a tree grieve? and How do you support it in its grief? During Walking with Grief in September 2022, people listened […]
Walking with Grief Traces – entangled voices
Anastasis Sarakatsanos created a beautiful soundtrack from the audio files from Walking With Grief and compiled them all into one piece. Take some time to reflect on and remember the first week of the DOTE year of listening, the week of Walking with Grief. This took place back in September 2022 as the first moment […]
Sense of Place
Familiar place but never visited
Often seems abandoned deserted
Busy street but few people in the small park
The Good Stuff Doesn’t Sit Still
I AM OUTSIDE AND FEEL THE FRESH AIR IN MY NOSE.
THE LEAVES OF THE LETTUCE ARE IN MY WET HAND.
Decolonizing Rituals
Activation A CANDLE, Feeling lonely [wanting] to connect with others MATCHES DRUMS. Lost tape of you singing. ESFAND, LAVENDER ESSENTIAL OIL, MYRRH ESSENTIAL OIL, SANDALWOOD, INCENSE, ROSE WATER,
Table Talks #6 XL- Drawings Gallery
In the Table Talks series we hope to sense, imagine and explore the urgencies that guide our practice, the structural changes we desire and what we are doing to achieve them. The series is a collaborative journey; the starting point for each of the Table Talks is formulated by the group in the preceding edition. As a part […]
Table Talks #5 XL – Drawings Gallery
In the Table Talks series we hope to sense, imagine and explore the urgencies that guide our practice, the structural changes we desire and what we are doing to achieve them. The series is a collaborative journey; the starting point for each of the Table Talks is formulated by the group in the preceding edition. As a part […]