Daniela Brasil: Rooting studies

This workshop is a poetic and self-reflexive inquiry into how humans deal with rooting processes. Humans are used to refer to their roots as fixed and attached to a place, like awkward political organizations such as nation-states. However, like plants, human roots are sensitive to the type and conditions of the soils and climate zones of their birthplace as much as to the territories they live in. Human roots can grow towards the nurturing sources and the relations they find on their way.

In this workshop the roots of different plants will be available for participants to explore during a blind exercise by using their fingers. Through drawings and texts, the group will share their descriptions of the rooting processes, creating a collective underground cartography.

espada com raizes/Verwurzelungsstudien/Rooting studies

Daniela Brasil is an artist, activist, curator, educator, and researcher. She grew up in a concrete jungle on the shores of the Atlantic and lived in various bioregions until she moved to Graz in 2010. She studied Architecture and Urbanism in Rio de Janeiro, Environmental Urban Design in Lisbon and Barcelona, Social Sculpture in Oxford, and received her MFA and PhD in Artistic Strategies for Public Participation at Bauhaus University Weimar. She is currently a curator at the Graz Museum, and a member of the Daily Rhythms Collective and the Ecoversities Alliance. Her work is diverse and takes the form of installations, spaces of encounters, performances, texts, and story-telling. She is mostly interested in co-creation, transformative learning processes that value the pluriverse.