In N U R T U R Æ L the sun is omnipresent. Earth's forests and seas are silted up while beings known and unknown to us try to collaboratively ensure their survival: potential ecosystems of animate objects, no longer human, and animal species practising or unlearning a future existence.

N U R T U R Æ L looks into a not-too-distant future in which the precariousness of survival for various forms of life is once again palpable. How might a poetics of relations with the earth be tested, beyond a centring of the human or the living?

For the Lothringer 13 Halle, THE AGENCY curates a speculative scenario for a possible post-human world, in which collaborative survival, being dependent on one another and caring for one another form the prerequisite for a possible post-human way of being together. Like the desert itself, the exhibition N U R T U R Æ L has hot and cold phases: It will open on 9.06.2022 with a cold phase.

From June 23rd, SOLASTALGIA, the performative installation by THE AGENCY with Challenge Gumbodete, Liina Magnea and Kate Strong will premiere. In SOLASTALGIA, the aridity of the desert forms the backdrop for a ceremony of farewell: between consolation (sōlācium) and -algia (pain, suffering, grief), solastalgia describes the feeling of loss of habitat due to global warming. In SOLASTALGIA, THE AGENCY creates a space of farewell to the centrality of humans in an ecosystem they have destroyed.

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