In this collective presentation, we (Gabriela Aquije, Lilo Viehweg, Guillemette Legrand) share three approaches to practising 'not-knowing' (de la Cadena, 2021) using the lens of our independent research as a starting point. Building on conversations with Marisol de la Cadena and Roberta Burchardt, we discuss modes to inquire about the places, people, and practices we want to 'think-feel' with. Each presentation mobilises different genres and grammars with the intention to open up pluriversal modes of learning, 'co-labouring' and inhabiting togetherness. Lilo presents the "archive of awkward relations and partial connections of complex matter", looking into different positionalities towards crystals relating design with science and beyond. Gabriela co-labours with/in Pachamanca, a traditional Quechua collective cooking ritual to present a living archive of three crops (chili, corn, and potato), and share ecological and political entanglements through diagrams, drawings, and storytelling. Finally, Guillemette narrates the frictions and possibilities of thinking with practices that one has cosmological divergence with, sharing personal encounters with computational Earth science practices.
Biography
Lilo Viehweg, Guillemette Legrand and Gabriela Aquije are creative practitioners and researchers who have worked alongside each other at the Basel Academy of Art and Design since 2022. In the last year, they came together, along with Roberta Burchardt, to exchange and reflect on their respective practices "from fieldwork to paper and back".