Regeneration is an online exhibition of the creative team of Artyčok.TV and other collaborating authors. Through artist’s videos, podcasts and other (not only) artworks, the exhibition shows examples of good practice in protecting natural resources such as land. The authors also looked at how education can contribute to eliminating inequalities in human and non-human societies. The team members have travelled to Norway and Iceland to find out about these practices. The geographical contexts of the so-called Nordic countries meet and intertwine with the local Czech ones in a mutual dialogue. Divided into three chapters, the online exhibition presents possible ways to confront specific environmental and social problems, while not widening the gap between the dominant society and those on its periphery.

The Feral Nest session will present two Regeneration chapters: Unprotected Nature by David Přílučík, and Erosion by Nikola Brabcová and Karin Šrubařová. The session will be introduced by Artyčok.TV’s Tereza Špinková.

David Přílučík – Unprotected Nature

The screening and presentation will focus on the intersection of environmentalism and colonial history, exploring possibilities for resistance through the chapter Unprotected Nature.  

Nikola Brabcová, Karin Šrubařová – Erosion

Birds fly over the water in circles and hunt for insects, digging small holes in the sloping banks. We listen to them from a distance. Their cries mingle with the sounds of planes and digital signals. Everything is moving and changing. We sit and perceive more sensitively, information coming through our bodies. We activate our senses and focus on the complexity of the situation. We imagine underground networks and their interconnections, the soil metabolizing the living and the nonliving, visible and invisible processes. We see mosses, lichens, fungi and small birch trees growing out of it. The Erosion Project is a curated walk compiled from the testimonies of Czech and Icelandic artists and scientists that guides us through a landscape of soil relations and contexts. After the project presentation, there will be a video screening of a former sand quarry in South Bohemia that was left to be naturally restored without human intervention. The video will be accompanied by composer and sound artist Alexandra Cihanská Machová.