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. 
Felipe G. Gil
Open Forest CollectiveFormat:  .mp4, .txt
Location: Seville, Spain
Date: 2022



Proyecto Gimnasio
Israel Galván y el Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía
XXII Bienal de Flamenco, Sevilla 2022

We’ve been here for a very long time. We’ve seen a lot. We’ve also travelled far. The whole time, humans thought we’re serious, in different ways. But actually we’re pretty playful. In fact, we’ve always played with all sorts of creatures that make us and pass through us in different times. Small creatures, including humans, used to swim with us but these days not so much. 

If you allow me, let me tell you something on behalf of some of us: humans seem to think we need to be saved. That’s interesting … especially when we can actually take over the whole city if we wanted. Have you seen a river gone wild? Yeah.

Now, you see the performance? Interesting, also. Humans are moving like fish, eels, frogs, crocodiles, ducks, and dragonflies, just to name a few. They come and do this sometimes. I vibrate with the sound they make with their own bodies, other bodies, and machines, and ah, fireworks. 

During some festive times, there are also fireworks. They’re incredible to look at. But hey, they certainly feel like guns and knives - just much worse. Lithium, sodium, copper, barium, calcium and strontium all make pretty colors but then they bring toxic gasses and poisonous matters into our own bodies. It feels like a war-zone. Because, anything you do around us, we live through it, too. 

Before I leave you, I just got an email from one of the General Assembly of the Ants Colonies On The River Bank. And they told me that, please, make sure you don’t sit on them by accident if you go to a flamenco show again. Not good for them or for you. 

I know you’re gonna continue doing your "human thing": being creative, saving everything, celebrating, but please, remember this message next time you plan to do something around us. For however long we might be around, or you might be around. Dance on.

Sincerely yours, 
Guadalquivir River.