Author: astridaneimanis

The FEELed Lab is delighted to partner with The Urban Indigenous Wellbeing Collective in support of the great work the collective is undertaking in the coming months! Please check out their website for more information, and come out to their first Speaker Series event on July 17. The Urban Indigenous Wellbeing Collective presents its first… Continue reading Urban Indigenous Wellbeing

A contribution from Therese Keogh, FEELed Lab Visiting Researcher from January to April 2023. I’m an artist, based on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country on the south-east coast of Australia. From January to April 2023, I visited the FEELed Lab to work on my PhD in the company of new people in an unfamiliar place. I… Continue reading Visiting Artist and Researcher Therese Keogh: Reflections

Over five days in early April 2023, we – visiting researchers Therese Keogh and Rebecca Macklin and Director Astrida Neimanis of the FEELed Lab – did a road trip. We were headed to Fort McMurray, Alberta, as a way to gain different kinds of insights into the engine ofpetrocapitalism that is also known as the… Continue reading FEELed Trip: To the Tar Sands

As winter turned into spring at the FEELed Lab, we felt the urge to get crafty! Thinking about upcoming events (the field trip to the Tar Sands in April and Water + Fire in June), we wanted to be able to gift our guests, hosts, and others who had offered us their time and knowledge… Continue reading Craft-a-strophe! (Or, how to make thoughts in a time of crisis)

A contribution from Rebecca Ryall, FEELed Lab Associate Researcher for Littoral Listening, recounting the session she led in May 2023. Five participants, five countries, four faces and one in shadow.  What makes for a shadow? A shadow is a shadow, until it isn’t. Poetry from the shadow people – two erased, one denied and the… Continue reading In shadow

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