Author: astridaneimanis

This FEELed Note is the sixth (and final) in a series written by Natalie Rice, the FEELed Lab Researcher in/of/on Place this year. Thank you, Natalie, for your inspiring contributions to the FEELed Lab this year! Last week, a group of us gathered at Woodhaven to see how the earth reads writing. I talked about… Continue reading earth reading writing

For many Lab regulars, Tuesdays are the best day of the week. Or, at least the day with the week’s best food. In a rather unplanned manner, Tuesdays have become ‘group lunch’ day at the lab. At first, we simply brought our own lunches and ate together, sitting around the kitchen/meeting table. Then ,someone brought… Continue reading food feelz

This FEELed Note is the fifth in a series written by Natalie Rice, the FEELed Lab Researcher in/of/on Place this year. “I want the forest before the book, the abundance of leaves before the pages, I love the creation as much as the created, no, more,” writes Hélène Cixous. I recently spent a week close… Continue reading without end

This FEELed Note is by Jennifer Mae Hamilton, Visiting Researcher at the FEELed Lab January-February 2023, and ongoing FEELed Lab Research Affiliate. I am an academic based on Anaiwan Country in Australia, a small city called Armidale halfway between Sydney and Brisbane. The city is inland on high country tablelands. It is in some ways… Continue reading Weathering my short stay at the FEELed Lab

This FEELed Note is a reflection by Research Associate Olga Koroleva, who curated our Littoral Listening session #9 on Planthuman, on 13 January 2023. As always, we met online for 1.5 hrs to read our selected texts (on wormwood) together and out loud, and then offer our reflections to one another so that they might… Continue reading Planthuman reflections

This FEELed Note is the fourth in a series written by Natalie Rice, the FEELed Lab Researcher in/of/on Place this year. + + + “Every time you step into the river you change it,” says artist Susan Derges who uses river and moonlight to expose images on photographic paper. During her creation process, she began… Continue reading Erosion

This winter, the FEELed Lab has loved welcoming two Visiting Researchers, Therese Keogh from the University of Melbourne, on Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Country, and Jennifer Hamilton, from UNE in Armidale, NSW, on Anaiwan Country. Therese is here working on her practice-led PhD project on “the spoil grounds,” while Jennifer is pushing forward with her… Continue reading Looking for signs…

On January 19, FEELed Labbers and friends were treated to a pop-up dance workshop convened by Hanna Sybille Mueller, who was in Kelowna as part of the Living Things festival. Tuning into the liquid elements of our bodies, we rhymed our flesh-sacks to the trees, the smoking fire, the starlight. We imagined the movement of… Continue reading Liquid bodies: in the night, the firelight

This FEELed Note is the third in a series written by Natalie Rice, the FEELed Lab Researcher in/of/on Place this year. + + + Slow Reading  Norah Bowman’s book, “Breath, Like Water: An Anti-colonial Romance” has been buried in the earth for about a month now. This practice-based research is an experiment and I am… Continue reading Slow Reading

This FEELed Note was prepared by FEELed Lab Research Associate Tara Nicholson. ‘I am seeking to explore a worldview that, speaking metaphysically, is ‘beyond the physical,’ yet, paradoxically, is deeply concerned with the matter of ‘nature’ and sentience.’ (Gothic Metaphysics, Alchemy to the Anthropocene, Jodey Castricano) On December 9th 2022 the FEELed Lab’s Fringe Natures… Continue reading MEET US IN THE FOREST, as night falls…