Art and Society Through Feminist Degrowth
Performative and Collaborative Conversations with Degrowth Activist Scholar Anitra Nelson
The Syndicate of Creatures in collaboration with CApE and Anitra Nelson invite you to an immersive event combining performative readings, communal conversations, and a feminist degrowth perspective on radical change moderated by Rebecca L. Rutt.
Through artistic expressions and embodied engagement with various perspectives of feminist degrowth, we will explore the simple but radical notions of care, commons, and creativity, and how they question the dominant structures of Western society and economy. How can art help as a catalyst for systemic transformation? How do feminist degrowth perspectives challenge extractivist paradigms and offer new ways to think about value, sustainability, and community? Join us for this gathering, where ideas will flow and imagination will become a tool for change.
Anitra Nelson is an activist scholar affiliated with the University of Melbourne (Australia) and Degrowth Central Victoria.
Her degrowth publications include co-editing Housing for Degrowth (2018) Food for Degrowth (2021) and the Routledge Handbook on Degrowth (due out June 2025) and co-author with Vincent Liegey of Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide (2020). See https://anitranelson.info/
Rebecca Rutt, assoc. prof and active in the University of Copenhagen Degrowth Network. Situated in environmental critical feminist theory, Rebecca has made scholar-activist contributions to the streets, degrowth festivals in Copenhagen, and more.
The Syndicate of Creatures (tSoC): “We are KRÆ. We are creatures. While capitalistic autocannibliism devours our nature, and feasts on all living creatures and living growths; while we humans become a bottomless gap of insatiable needs, in a splintered world, where reflection hurts as the world is spinning in the wrong direction; we turn into disturbing creatures – creatures identifying with critters and growths, emerging as beings of the earth.” tSoC is built around a core of three artists/curators/researchers and art theorists, and we collaborate with a wide range of professionals. tSoC consists of visual artist and art theorist Nanna Gro Henningsen, human ecologist and performer Michelle Appelros, and visual artist, activist and curator Signe Vad. We create exhibitions, events, workshops, and intervention projects on topics related to our main focus: rethinking how we inhabit this planet. tSoC is the initiator behind the Degrowth Festival in Copenhagen in 2023 and 2024 and a member of the International Degrowth Network.