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. 
Open Forest CollectiveFormat:  .jpg, .mp4, .txt
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Date: 2022

Fema RecipeThis potion is inspired by Felipe’s score for Feral Gift @ Uroboros 2022. The recipe starts with a long walk around the Baltic shore of Mustikkamma island, Helsinki, on a sunny Sunday. While these two ingredients were tested and work well for the recipe, we imagine you can go with any shore, island, and weather of your choice. Go and wander and wonder with your multi-species neighbours. Important part of the Crustacean Cemetery is a memory (lived or imagined) of Venice summer and of Sevillian humour. These two ingredients shall not be replaced. Think of Venice, the romantic dancing of humans and crustaceans alike on its slow-sinking mass; find someone who knows the hot humour of Sevilla and ask them to share at least a small piece. t’s refreshing, playful, and healing. We can’t recommend enough. Last but not least, find someone around with a kind experimental spirit to help you shake your inspirations and add a dash of more – perhaps surprising – colour; like our new friend tending the bar at Femma IV in Kalllio. The potion is ready. Have it with someone you care about/for, imagined, self, or otherwise.

Mix2 x Aperol
1.2 x Campari
0.5 x soda water
Ice cubes
A slice of orange
3 x Prosecco (Cava also okay on any day, but especially today)

ServeWith a straw & a pinch salt on the drinker’s palm (posh flavoured salt is wanky & okay)

DrinkWhile holding salt in your palm, shuffle with your other hand, foot, or other means, your
choice of a tarot deck (we used Serpentine for Uroboros and other reasons).
Pick a card. Open. Discuss aloud, even when alone.
Lick the salt off your palm.
Lie down.
Take a good sip of the libation through the straw.
Feel it.
Shuffle the tarot deck and pick a card, open, and look at it. Discussion optional.
Continue as you desire.