The Community of Compost borrows the title and the topics of a short story written by Donna Haraway "The Children of Compost " about the symbiogenetic join of a human child and monarch butterflies. This idea is profoundly embedded in the spirit of the collective, so the project will be driven by cultivating collaborations and partnerships among artists, philosophers, musicians and researchers across various disciplines. Each work/project was created by collaborating with at least two beings.
By fostering vibrant collaborations, the project aims to craft transformative art experiences that unlock new dimensions of understanding the complexity of nature and the interconnectedness of all living beings. Through the lens of the project, we seek to provoke contemplation and engagement, encouraging viewers to perceive themselves as part of a larger ecosystem. The project’s purpose is to create art experiences that reflect the intricate and rapid changes taking place within our planet. Furthermore, we aspire to evoke a profound sense of connection and reverence for the intricate web of life we are part of.
The C. of C. is made by human creatures born from kinship woven with other species. They are tasked with preserving what remains and honoring what is lost. The C. of C. teaches us to write stories and live lives oriented towards prosperity and abundance. It is a symbol of intraspecies collaboration and alliance, of deconstruction and re-learning. The C. of C. is an ecotone, a small colony/village//refuge of trans-subjective migrant individuals, of refugees, human and non-human, without refuge.
The C. of C. stimulates alliances and creates relationships, not only between humans but between all species in order to survive the disaster. It envelops a myriad of temporalities and spatialities and a myriad of intra-active entities, assemblages including the more-than-human, other-than-human, inhuman and human-as-humus. Individualism, gender, and speciesism make no sense here because all living things are hybrids and symbionts, connected in a complex network with other so-called species. Intertwined in an inextricable co-evolution.
Works, projects and contributions by:
Irene Pucci_Mariateresa Salvati_Claudia Giannuli_Rupert Sheldrake_Natalija Dimitrijević_Francesco Paolo Gassi_Arianna La Dogana_Cosimo Pisani_Pier Alfeo_Unità Analitica Biologia e microbiologia ambientale (Laboratorio Multisito, Ravenna - Arpae Emilia Romagna)_Lucia Uni_Mario Ferrarelli (Terra Building Design)_Nina Miceli Uni_Francesco Fossati_Marco Antonini_Mila Balzhieva_Like A Little Disaster_Merlin Sheldrake_Martina Petrelli_Raffaele Fiorella_Elisa Gallenca_Mariangela Stoppa_Andreas Ervik_Siv Dolmen_Giovanni Pinto_ Ada Penna.