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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…

This FEELed Note is the second in a series written by Natalie Rice, the FEELed Lab Researcher in/of/on Place this year. + + + How does the Earth read itself back to itself? This winter, Breath, Like Water: An Anticolonial Romance by Norah Bowman was borrowed from The FEELed Lab library and will be quietly… Continue reading Leafing through: Nature and Culture at the FEELed Library

On Tuesday, December 13th, between five different times of the day, two different seasons, and can’t even imagine how many frequency channels across and beyond the internet, five of us met for the last Littoral Listening of the year. Five of us met to share and talk about that mysterious and in some way relieving… Continue reading reading in-between