MECHANISMS OF PROTECTION: Stockholm's Banquet of Feral Occupations

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The School of Feral Grounds: Designing for Regenerative Landscapes

Krater Collective

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1 month ago

Featuring inspirational guest speakers involved in urban curating, pedagogical work, publishing, art, design, and architecture, the series of thematic conversations are set to explore a variety of cultural approaches connected to ecological regeneration across diverse national contexts and spatial typologies. By exposing social, ecological, and programmatic aspects of eco-cultural stewardship, the discussions aim to empower cultural actors across Europe to engage in resilient and continuous ecological actions. Hosted and curated by Danica Sretenović and Gaja Mežnarić Osole.

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MECHANISMS OF PROTECTION: Stockholm's Banquet of Feral Occupations

The School of Feral Grounds: Designing for Regenerative Landscapes

1 hour 14 minutes 15 seconds

8 months ago

MECHANISMS OF PROTECTION: Stockholm's Banquet of Feral Occupations

The Banquet of Feral Occupations premiered at Krater in 2023, where we served complex discussions alongside delicious food, asking a diverse group of public figures—including university professors, fellow artists, activists, and directors of cultural institutions — to collectively explore the shared responsibility of maintaining Krater. The Banquet originated as part of a Feral Occupations, a series of artworks featured at the Graphic Biennial in Ljubljana, occupying guests with questions on the production of public goods: public land, public discourse, public workplaces, public ecologies.

As Krater’s concerns are neither isolated nor coincidental, this time, we are inserting feral seeds in the halls of IASPIS, the Swedish Arts Grants Agency, with similar intentions: to serve Balkan Fika alongside an urgent call to rethink mechanisms of land protection.

In Stockholm, guests were invited to consider what kinds of feral strategies, within the existing frameworks of art, cultural heritage, nature protection, and institutional regulations—we dare to imagine in advocating for the land, its pioneering ecosystems, and its cultural practices. As a consequence of systemic flaws shared across geographies, our common learnings aim to provoke feral actions beyond the Krater site.

Our reporter, Bitsy Knox, moved through the Banquet, capturing fragments of conversation, followed by commentary from one representative per topic.

Hosted and produced by Bitsy Knox from Cashmere Radio

in collaboration with IASPIS

Curated by Danica Sretenović and Gaja Mežnarić Osole

We want to extend our gratitude to all Feral Banquet guests and special thanks to the contributors of the podcast. By order of appearance Inna Zrajaeva, Elena Carlini, Robert Gioielli, Corina Oprea, Jonas Dahlberg, Eric Andersson, Josse Thuresson, Evelina Mohei, Paola Torrez Nunez del Prado, Poppy Bell, Munish Wadhia, Sarasvati Shrestha

Many many thanks to Magnus Erikson, head of applied arts at IASPIS, supporting the feral project and having exquisite taste in cooking. Many thanks to our fellow artists in residence who helped realize the Feral Banquet and supported us in many other ways: Michele J Castro, Josse Thuresson, Munish Wadhia, Carin Blucher, Karin Keisu, Alexandra Anikina, Keira J Fox, TK Sandeep and Bitsy Knox.

Last but not least, thank you to Åsa Ståhl, without whom none of this would have happened.