Worlding Podcast

Erwan Roussel explores a queer mythology and/or fantasy that is speculative, that you can dream about, you can invent and can even expand to create your own Pantheon, your own history, your own myth. 

Erwan left the binary view of the Christian religion because he felt that there was a huge diversity of expressions that could better represent his queerness. Influenced by the pagan rituals and legends of fairies, witches and goblins that he grew up with in Bretagne (France), Erwan set out to dream about what he wanted to be the heir of, what queer ancestors and saints he could align himself with. 

Erwan translates his research into talismanic clothes, designing a series of gender-neutral vests that represent embodied states and emotions, such as shape shifting or sadness. ​​​​He embellishes the vests with chalk drawings of human body parts that morph into animals and plants, winding in and out of different entities and forming a unique Worlding practice that is entangled within it's more-than human surroundings.

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Benny Nemer has always been curious about relationships, especially love relationships, but not exclusively. Benny works as a multidisciplinary artist, diarist and researcher. He came to an interest in kinship through an interest in queerness. Queerness as a method, as an aesthetic and also an intrigue in the way that queers form relationships beyond the kind of reproductive family structures that are valorised and emphasised by dominant western culture.

From there, Benny and Renae meander into more-than human realms by focusing on Benny’s audio guide “Trees Are Fags” (2018) which encourages the listener to find a park, or the garden of their mind to perform a series of choreographed cruising gestures, referring to “the trees that populate those places where men congregate to have sex”.

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Susanne Schmitt, who works across ethnographic and artistic practices often with a multi species lens and through works situated at Natural History Museums and Botanical Gardens, guides us through her research of more-than human museums and creatively explores what Worlding could be.

Susanne shares her interest in the architecture of museums, their written and unwritten rules and how this choreographs the people that work in them. By playing with the genre of the audio walk, Susanne and her collaborators set out to turn museums into multi species sites by accounting for the very different kinds of species that dwell there and that are represented there.

During the pandemic, when most of us find ourselves refined to our home environments, can we experiment with thinking about our homes as more-than human museums?

Could we even, for example, create a guided tour of our home for a bug that likes to eat trees?

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