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

The content of this site, including materials shared in all Loops, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).  Click hereif you would like to view a copy of this license. 
Feral Gift is a co-creative experiment in feral ways of knowing, sensing, and making sense with more-than-human worlds. 
Iryna ZamuruievaFormat:  .jpg, .txt
Location: North Sea
Date: 2022


[UA]
Все перемішане під поверхнею
Ракоподібні, що мільйонами років перетворюються на пісок
Мамині колискові, арпеджіо Філіпа Гласа, нео-барокко
Гвоздики, що їх несла на розпис, на якому ніхто не крикнув “я проти!”
Свіжо-відкопані, напів-розкладені, вбиті іншими людьми люди,
Непроговорені теми,
Бомби уповільненої дії,
Чиїсь турботи, відклеєні вії, паспорти, цукерки, пластикові пакети, меми, похорони, весілля
Заговорюю, щоб всі вони вибухнули конфетті,
а не частинами чиїхсь життів
(може навіть наших)
Рухаюся обережно, складно бачити напрямок
Не ясно, хто і кого ще врятує
Підземний червяк Lithoredo abatanica
з’їсть камінь
зробить пісок
Його майбутнє у нього в роті
І в нас теж
Тому, говори, будь ласка, коли ходиш цим кладовищем ракоподібних,
Кажи їм дякую, прошу, пробач, пробач, пробач
До останньої піщинки і, можливо,
Можливо вони таки пробачать

Все це насправді взагалі не про тебе
Але земля обертається навколо своєї осі
І я знов бачу твоє обличчя у контурі суші,
Що торкається Північного моря,
Дякую, прошу, пробач, пробач, пробач

[EN]
Everything is mixed up under the surface
Crustaceans, that for millions of years have been turning into sand,
Mama’s lullabies, arpeggio from Philip Glass, neo-baroque,
Carnations carried to the registrar, where no one shouted “I object!”
Freshly unearthed, half-decomposed people killed by other people, 
Untalked through topics, 
Time bombs, 
Someone’s troubles, unglued eyelashes, passports, candies, plastic bags, memes, funerals, weddings,
I am putting a spell on them to explode with confetti 
And not with pieces of someone’s lives
(maybe even ours)
I am moving carefully, hard to see the direction
It’s unclear who will rescue whom
Underground worm Lithoredo botanica
Will eat rock
And make sand
Their future is in their mouth
And in ours too
So, speak, please, as you walk this crustacean cemetery,
Tell them thank you, welcome, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry,
Until the last grain of sand and maybe, 
maybe they will forgive you

All this is really not about you
But the earth is turning around its axis
And I see your face again in the outline of the land
That touches the North Sea
Thank you, welcome, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry.