On April 22, Earth Day, In Search for the Pluriverse opens as part of the festive programme A More-than-Human Night at the Museum organised by Het Nieuwe Instituut. In Search for the Pluriverse is open at Het Nieuwe Instituut from 23.04.22 - 07.08.22 and supports the work of 2020 Tilting Axis Fellow, Sean Leonard.
Autumn Equinox 2020, la C.A.R. (Cellule d'Actions Rituelles), la zad, Notre-Dames-des-Landes, France. Photo: Darlene
Come along on a journey through the pluriverse, a world in which there is room for many worlds. Because the current Western, capitalist world is running on empty. Is it conceivable that we (people and all other life forms on this planet) can work together on a future that actually has a future?
Curators Sophie Krier and Erik Wong went looking for examples of these different world views on the edges of Europe. In four chapters they open 27 doors to the pluriverse. Each chapter can be seen as a moment of the day, or a season. Time to Harvest. Letting go. A new beginning. Action! A story without an end or beginning.
The spatial design is by Sean Leonard, the graphic identity by Miquel Hervás Gomez. Nina van Hartskamp edited audio fragments of each maker.
With contributions by: Mae-ling Lokko, Yaşar Adnan Adanalı (Centre of Spatial Justice), Kıvılcım Özmen & Besê Diribaş, Suzanne Dhaliwal, Aslı Hatipoğlu, Huis van de Toekomst & Feest van de Eenvoud (Melle Smets, Kris de Decker, Klaas Burger, Bart Groenewegen, Peik Suyling, Ayse Alcinkaya), Tony & Judy Gibson, School of Mutants (Hamedine Kane, Stéphane Verlet-Bottéro, Valérie Osouf, Boris Raux), Severine Amsing, Bodil Ouédraogo, Anne van Leeuwen (Bodemzicht), Nina van Hartskamp, Camila Marambio & Ariel Bustamante, Tom Morton (Arc Architects) & the Travellers, Miek Zwamborn (Knockvologan), Collins+Goto (Tim Collins, Reiko Goto) & Chris Malcolm, Serkan Taycan, Mhairi Killin, Joke Robaard, Nur Horsanalı, Jay Tompt (Reconomy Centre), Sabine Zahn, The Linen Project, Ooze Architects (Eva Pfannes, Silvain Hartenberg) & Marjetica Potrč, Kornelia Dimitrova, la C.A.R. (Cellule d’Actions Rituelles), Cynthia Hathaway (WASA / Wool Alliance for Social Agency), Li An Phoa & Thom Verheul, Ola Hassanain, Tomás Espinosa & Valeria López, Bárbara Sanchez, Franchesca Caballero, Nini Palomino, Natalia Bernal, Daniela Maldonado, and many others who prefer not to be named.
Warming up!
Read Dirk van Weelden's essay 'Spring in Het Nieuwe Instituut' about embracing an inclusive world view that goes beyond humans alone.