Hi, I am an Amsterdam based art-informed -> haptonomic professional , necro-ecological explorer, -> weather walker, educator and designer of interactions. -> Working with audiences of zero, one to some I sees the body as the main witness and capsule of these encounters. Sometimes my efforts leave -> residu’s and -> traces.

Weather together
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Weather together

Walking weather is a collective inquiry into inner/outer weather along the lines of various scored walks.

Initiated during Fiberlab’s Reassemble Lab: Weatherscape, this open-ended research invites participants to co-explore how a play with intent, attention and attunement can alter one’s experience of inner/outer weather. The term inner/outer weather is meant to describe the intra-action of weather phenomena and inner body sensations as they are felt simultaneous in and thanks our permeable and porous bodies.

This research situates itself into a larger inquiry where I question to what extent haptonomic phenomena can be felt and explored within human to more-than-human relationships and builds on the insights that came from the project; Piece for weather, climate and person’.

And I am happy to share that I will be able to expand on this interest - in assembly with others - with the support of Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunsten

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De Humusator / Necro-ecology
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De Humusator / Necro-ecology

De Humusator.org is an open platform investigating Humane Composting in the context of the Anthropocene, art, death-work, ethics, spiritual ecology, urban development and the long now.

Our collaborations, projects and proposed research aims to explore and establish the emerging field of necro-ecology: the relational nature between diseased (non)human remains and the biochemical surroundings - in a variety of ways. Bringing together research institutions, designers, funerary workers and political agents to collectively re-design death from a more ecological and holistic perspective.

De Humusator is an initiative by independent funerary worker Susanne Duijvestein and artist/designer Rosalie Bak, inspired by the preliminary works of Stichting Metamorfose (BE) and Recompose (US)

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