Feminist Perspectives on Plants and Resistance Struggles - PLANT STORIES #3

In the organizer's words:

(German below)

What role do land and plants play in struggles of resistance? How are practices like planting and farming, foraging and caring for, harvesting and making oils etc. connected to resistance struggles? How do plants and humans resist together? The artists Anguezomo Nzé Mba Bikoro and Bilge Emine Arslan both examine in their work how practices with plants are rooted in experience and forms of knowledge formed through engaging with the land and their interconnections with feminist struggles.

In the space of a pop-up-exhibition of Bilge Emine Arslan's work "Letter Based Dialogue" as part of her ongoing artistic research project "Land, Grapes, and Resistance", and following a workshop by Anguezomo Nzé Mba Bikoro on "Paraecologies for Weaving Conflict Strategies", their conversation with curator and researcher Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss brings together various artistic approaches as well as experiences in different struggles and regions.

This conversation is part of the PLANT STORIES program, that runs at ZK/U from June - October 2025.

German

What role do land and plants play in the struggles of resistance? How are practices such as planting and cultivating, gathering and tending, harvesting and oil production, etc. linked to resistance struggles? How do plants and people resist together? In their works, artists Anguezomo Nzé Mba Bikoro and Bilge Emine Arslan explore how practices in dealing with plants are rooted in experiences and forms of knowledge that have emerged through engagement with the land, and how they are linked to feminist struggles.

The conversation will take place in the space of the pop-up exhibition of Bilge Emine Arslan's work "Letter Based Dialogue" as part of her ongoing artistic research project "Land, Grapes, and Resistance". It follows Anguezomo Nzé Mba Bikoro's workshop on "Paraecologies for Weaving Conflict Strategies". In conversation with curator and researcher Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss, the two will bring together different artistic approaches and experiences in different struggles and regions.