A co-creative experiment in feral ways of knowing, sensing, and making sense with more-than-human worlds.


Loops Archive

Loop 1 - Becoming Eco-social Change

The first Feral Gift Loop brought together artists, designers, researchers, and social change-makers of various backgrounds to reflect on and performatively enact their diverse experiences of eco-social change. See the full Loop. 


Loop 2 - Multispecies Sensemaking: When are we together? (Coming Soon)

Capturing moments of multispecies co-existence, where human and other-than-human lives come together in an intentional attempt to understand and make sense with each other. Moving together, following each other's time, to the point when we meet.  
Loop 3 - Finding Everyday Spectacles (Coming Soon)

Foraging for spectacular moments of everydaylife co-existence in Finnish forests, gardens, and street corners.   


How to Loop

A Step-By-Step Guide to Create Your Feral Gift Loop
  • 1] Gather a group of (other-than) humans willing to participate.

  • 2] Set a theme or a focus for your collective feral gifting → (or maybe you want to start with a theme and gather a group of contributors around that? Then swap steps 1 and 2).

  • 3] Organise a get-together with your group to agree on the structure of your loop exchange: How long will your loop take (days, weeks, months, aeons)? When will each contributor share their prompt? How much time can others in the group take to respond?

  • 4] Decide on a communication channel that you will use for your loop and the exchange of prompts and documented enactments. We’ve used Telegram so far, but you can do whatever you want. You might also set up a shared cloud storage to upload larger files.

  • 5] The Feral Gift exchange can happen privately, with gifts being shared only among a closed group of contributors. But if you all agree, you can also share your process more widely - for instance by using this online Feral Gift archive (under a CC BY-NC-SA license) or at any other place you prefer. You can also organise the whole loop publicly and facilitate the exchange via a public channel - it depends on you; what you wish to explore, with whom, and how. In Loop #1, we shared our process at the Uroboros 2022 festival in Prague and later at a symposium in the .zip spaceRotterdam.

  • * If this sounds too prescriptive, you can always come up with a different way of facilitating the gifting exchange.


Get In Touch

The Feral Gift project was initiated in 2022 by Markéta Dolejšová and Danielle Wilde, as an ongoing experiment open to further contributions. 

The project is supported by Uroboros Festival and Aalto ARTSand the website was generously funded by the Kone Foundation

If you want to organise your own Feral Gift Loop, feel free to use this site as an inspiration and let us know how it went. We are happy to include your Loop in the online Feral Gift archive under a CC BY-NC-SA license, but you can share it wherever else you like. 

Do you have any questions or ideas related to the project? Send us a message . 

Disclaimer

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Feral Gift is a co-creative experiment in feral ways of knowing, sensing, and making sense with more-than-human worlds. 
Week 4
guided by
Felipe G. Gil
ContributorsAnn Light
Danielle Wilde
Iryna Zamuruieva
Martyna Miller
Open Forest Collective
Score

You have been walking peacefully in a crustacean cemetery. What will you say to Sandy Cheeks* and their friends?

Score References

10 grains of sand

  1. I was born on an island. 41 years ago.

  2. At 18, when I moved to Seville, I realized I missed the sea a lot.
     
  3. I like sports. All kinds of them. That's why my first reaction when I think about 'scores' I imagine first the result of a match (Serena Williams or Carlos Alcaraz, for example). 

  4. On the beach I've enjoyed playing informal sports. Firstly as a kid, now as a father of two girls.

  5. I love winning but I am generally a loser.

  6. This summer I've been listening to an artist whose entire album is on Youtube with a 3D moving view at the beach of him as his friends. There is one song called Después de la playa (After the beach) that I've played non stop on my devices. During the Creatures Festival I even crossed with my car close to where Marketa and Andrea were and I put the volume crazily up just on 1'09''.

  7. I once made a short film which was recorded on a Fuerteventura beach. It was called: "The Mirror Theory". Yes, it was a bit pretentious. No, you can't watch it because we used to upload all of our videos to a platform that, being a private company as they are, decided to stop hosting videos. We had 1.000 videos uploaded there. We saved them on a hard disk which was later corrupted. We lost all those memories. But somehow, I guess, it's not that bad. Because there is enough crap on the Internet, right?

  8. This summer, I came back to Fuerteventura, as always. And we went to a really small museum in the south. There we found a guy who was an expert on the history of the island. He told us that eastern islands such as Fuerteventura or Lanzarote are lower because they are slowly being submerged. The island is collapsing slowly. This image was powerful enough to be shared. But then the guy told us something more: "and that's why this island is well known for our beaches". Because once the island is sinking, this sends to the surface many crustaceans. And once they die, they become sand.

  9. Suddenly I realized that, walking on a beach, is certainly walking on a crustacean cemetery. 

  10. And since I'm obsessed with popular imageries, mainstream narratives and remix culture I just wonder how a sci-fi imagination produces stories in between the death and the alive, the animated and the still, all those crustacean souls and your thoughts. Your turn. Hurry up, we are losing.

* I hate footnotes but here we are. Using them to make you smile (and also discover who the hell is Sandy Cheeks)