fermenting feminism gathers an international group of artists, fermenters, healers, scientists, filmmakers, activists and thinkers to stage and share various works and practices connected to fermentation as both metaphor and material practice for care and nurture in a planetary world. 

Through lectures, performances, workshops, recipes, rituals and films, fermenting feminism will explore fermentation as a potentially vital and viable practice for re-interpreting histories of science, medicine, ecology and art in multispecies worldings. It examines stories of preservation and transformation, inter-species symbiosis and co-evolution, biodiversity and futurity, health and disability studies, gender and sexual diversity practices. It probes and suggests matters of survival and response-ability in times of climate crisis and ecocides. fermenting feminism honors the brewers and healers throughout herstory.


DAY 1
Interdisciplinary symposia at the Medical Museion from 10am-6:45pm.

Contributors:
Adam Bencard (DK): Giving a Shit // Anna Davidson (UK): A speculative manifesto for/of fermented feminisms: exhaustion, hunger & other energetic entanglements // Joshua Evans (UK/DK): Endless Convivial Experiments // Lauren Fournier (CA): Finding a container to hold it: on fermenting feminism as metaphor // Signe Schmidt Kjølner (DK): Vessels // Zeenath Hasan (SE): Fontana Mixing Vitruvian Correlations // Petja Ivanova (DE): Fermenting Modernity - lively soups of insect bodies // Maja Janter (BE): Song of [Y] // Sarah Kantrowitz (US): Gentle & Deliberate Care // Alanna Lynch (DE): Gut Feelings // Kristoffer Raasted (DK): Digital Transformation // Katja Serber (DK): Thingumajig 0058 // Woodland (w/Ida Brattmo & Klara Bothén) (SE): The Woodland Circle

Detailed program


DAY 2
Performance and workshop symposia at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
from 10:00am-19:30pm.

Contributors:
Lotte Bækgaard (DK): Sourdoughs // Josef Pils (SE) & Tove Bollman (SE): Mother Earth is a trans woman // Chili Christensen (DK): SEJD // María Jesus Gonzalez (AG): To let in (the mass) into (my body) // Sunniva Gudmundsdottir Mortensen (FO) & David Sebastián Lopez Restrepo (CO/DK): Chicha/Fermented Corn // Maria Braender (DK), Katrine Faber (DK) & Claus Otto (DK): Microbial Stomach Growl // Eva Bakkeslett (NO) & Hannah Mjølsnes (NO): Fits Facial Interspecies Transcultural Salon // Emma-Cecilia Ajanki (SE): Subtle Medicine A Healing Ritual // Agnieszka Pokrywka (PL/FI): Bacterial Fortune Telling // Anna Bolther (DK), Amalie Juelsgaard (DK) & Golshid Rokhzan (IR/SE): Flow Feelings Fluid Food // Eleonora Edreva (BG) & Leo Williams (US): Family Jewels // Petja Ivanova (DE): Circular Design Concepts for Synthetic Plastic Biodegradation // Joshua Evans (UK/DK): The Kimbucha

Detailed program


fermenting feminism is curated by Lauren Fournier & Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology
(Dea Antonsen & Ida Bencke)

A tremendous thanks to the Medical Museion and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts for hosting this event

The event is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation

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