Event: B|T|W||N THE L|AV|S: A Critical De/Compost Reading Group @ The Mosaic Rooms, Wed 16 Nov 4.00pm-6.00pm

B|TW|N THE L|AV|S: A Critical De/Compost Reading Group is a series compiled by myself and researcher Georgia Perkins exploring theory, philosophy and praxis around processes of death, decay and fermentation. We navigate these ideas from a range of texts spanning queer feminist materialisms, indigenous cosmologies, more-than-human phenomenology and fiction. In each session we activate methodological tools proposed by the authors in order to sensorially engage with their texts. For the fourth session, we turn to Anna Tsing’s essay on ‘The Forest of Collaborations,’ which centres on the model of community-managed forests in Indonesia. Tsing offers us “friction” as a tool to assess the sticky complexities of “community-based” collaboration; different agendas across common projects; “productive confusion” and “awkward coalescence”. The reading traces some of her key ideas on the politics of difference to survival in her well known chapter ‘Contamination as Collaboration,’ in The Mushroom at the End of the World (2015). This reading group has been assembled as an offering for the Artists Reading Room at The Mosaic Rooms, Kensington, part of Marwa Arsanios’ solo exhibition Reverse Shot reflecting on colonial and ecological violence, as well as the alternative possibilities in grassroots community resistance and a more harmonious relationship with the land. All are welcome! Please RSVP to beckyl.lyon@googlemail.com to book your place and receive the reading.

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