GMU:Re-enchanting the field

2025-05-17T19:23:16Z

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Erasmus+ Blended Intensiv Program (BIP). A collaboration between Bauhaus University Weimar (Sound Ecologies and Media Environments), the Estonian Academy of Arts (Master of Craft Studies), Potsdam University of Applied Sciences (Department of Design) and the Unniversity of Applied Arts (Transformation Studies) Vienna,Austria.

Prof. Ursula Damm, Prof. Kerstin Ergenzinger, Mindaugas Gapševičius (Bauhaus University Weimar)
 Prof. Monika Halkort (University of Applied Arts Vienna)
 Prof. Myriel Milicevic (Potsdam University of Applied Sciences)
 Prof. Kärt Ojavee (Estonian Academy of Arts)

<big>'''SCHEDULE'''</big>

'''Preparatory Sessions (Online):''' April 4th, 11th 25th and May 9th 2025
 '''Field visit, Narva, Estonia''' (including travel days): 18.5. – 25.5.2025
 '''Follow up & Project Review''' (online): June 20th and July 5th 2025

'''<big>ECTS AWARDED: 6 (4 SWS)</big>'''

'''Topics addressed:''' energy transitions, extractivism, industrial waste as material witness and driver of (geo)political transformations and change.

=== SYLLABUS ===
* 04.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Welcome & Introduction|Welcome & Introduction]]
* 11.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production|Social & Political History of Oil Shale Production]]
* 25.04.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia|The geo-history of oil shale in Estonia]] + Methodological Briefing
* 09.05.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Preparation for Travel|Preparation for Travel]]

FIELDWEEK May 18th – 25

* 19.05.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/EKA, Tallinn|EKA, Tallinn]]
* 20.05.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Travelling to Narva|Travelling to Narva]]
* 21.05.2025 [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Field visit auvre|Field visit auvre]]
* 22.05.2025 Independent work on projects / practical experiments
* 23.05.2025 Independent work on projects / practical experiments
* 24.05.2025 All-day group presentations & Feedback
* 25.05.2025 Travel Day

==== '''<big>PROGRAM DESCRIPTION</big>''' ====
This course offers an intensive training in elemental ethnography and ecological research. During a week long fieldvisit to Narva, Estonia, near the Russian border we will investigate the material legacy of oil shale extraction in the Baltic region, focusing in particular on the historical entanglement of energy, substances, landscapes, and bodies, and their unintended proliferations and designs. The fieldvisit will be preceded by 4 online lectures to provide context and to introduce us to the main topcis and cpnceptual framing of our research.

Our main aim is to engage with the emergent properties of bio/geo-chemical waste in their broader geopolitical context and to unpack how they hold landscapes and bodies in colonial relations, long after the mining activities have been shut down.

More specifically we want to explore the recurrent cycles of decomposition, death and renewal that are shaping the ambivalent landscapes of extractivism in Estonia, making their queer connections and affinities visible and apparent for critical inquiry and future research.

===METHODOLOGY & TASKS===

Together with local residents and field guides, we will visit ash mountains, ghost villages and abandoned manufacturing plants, built under Soviet Occupation (1941 – 1991), when oil shale production was at its historical height. Additional insights will be provided by scientific inputs from researchers in biology, geology, and environmental history in preparatory sessions online.

The outcome of this collaborative exercise will be documented in a shared workbook (digital/online publication) based on group projects conducted in the field. The workbook will be designed as a living index of liminal relations that sustain the shale oil ecosystem, mapping how they animate, de/recompose and transform social and natural landscapes, organisms and bodies at different speeds, durations and levels of intensity. Drawing on acoustic sensing, environmental mappings, and elemental ethnography / bio-geochemical analysis, we hope to reveal the less noticeable tensions, collaborations, and attunements that emerge from ‘non-consensual inhabitations’ (Masco) and forced transfers and unpack how they facilitate and/or disrupt land-body relations against a backdrop of shifting geopolitical borders and energy regimes.

===LEARNING OBJECTIVES===
Participants in this workshop will develop an understanding of bio-chemical processes and relations as critical infrastructures of geopolitical transformations and recognize how socio-ecological change is as much about (re)configuring life and responsibility beyond the individual body (Murphy, 2017, p. 479) as it is premised upon structures of violence and extraction that require land and bodies as sacrifice zones.

===COURSE MATERIALS===
'''Course Materials (all)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HV75lDkZEHdtrAgx0-7SFfqAEqqGSGdL

'''Social and Cultural History of Oil Shale Production in Estonia (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rlz26-7diSfn2Mp-YVLSBt_TdLZdldKl?usp=drive_link

'''Environmental Studies (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yM6MCDSTPJWmKqPqw7r_KL6FQKmc9tjP?usp=drive_link

'''Ecology/Elemental Perspectives (Text)'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1P1DwGrEWz3HpTbfr9932CYUuRyl5atNK?usp=drive_link

*"Ocean earth: 1980 bis heute: 1980 bis heute. Ausstellung Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum im Künstlerhaus Graz, Febr./März 1993"; Peter Weibel, Peter Fend, Thomas Donga Heike Rekampe ISBN 978-3927789722
* "Microhabitable"; Fernando Garcia Dory and Lucia Pietroiusti ISBN 978-3753303864
* "[https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/technologies-of-care-7046 Technologies of Care" by Yvonne Volkart]

'''Methodology'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nHvoJGnypVfDTGesCPSrxdQw5lTeQ2i8?usp=drive_link

* [https://leida.artun.ee/en/issues/community-of-agents/in-praise-of-legwork Legwork]

* [[Feralatlas.org|Feral Atlas]]

'''Miroboard'''

https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVI4OmmIc=/

===EXPECTATIONS===
Participation in the trip to Estonia 18. -25. May 2025
 Interest in discourse, reading, research as well as hands-on material experiments around anthropocene & feral landscapes, relationality, more-than-human design, interdisciplinary, experimental and poetic approaches, team work
 Documentation and experimental storytelling (transferring findings and relations into visual, sonic, experimental narratives). These narratives will be published on a dedicated course website.
===PARTICIPANTS===
Bauhaus Universität Weimar
* [[/Cosmo Schüppel]]
* [[/Jan Munske]]
* [[/Karlotta Sperling]]
* [[/Kitman Yeung]]
* [[/Nina Bendix Igleses]]
* [[/Öykü Türkan]]
* [[/Rieke Hettinger]]
* [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Sabah Elhadid|Sabah Elhadid]]

Potsdam University of Applied Sciences
* [[/Marie Buschmann]]
* [[/Laura Günther]]
* [[/Helena Haak]]
* [[/Hannah Charlotte Krause]]
* [[GMU:Re-enchanting the field/I na K won|/Ina Kwon]]
* [[/Juliane Müller|/J uli ane Müll er]]
* [[/Jennifer Schnurr]]
* [[/Ragnar Wilczek]]
* [[/Tilmann Finner]]

University of Applied Arts Vienna
* [[/Virginia Nicole Bonareri]]
* [[/Hans-Lionel Cayaban]]
* [[/Helin Ozdemir]]
* [[/Raphaela Leitner]]
* [[/Sara Karimi]]
* [[/Sofia Pechenaia]]
* [[/Yuri Turovskiy|/Yury Turovskiy]]
* [[/Jiun-You Ou]]

Estonian Academy of Arts
* [[/Chun Chow|/Odie Chow]]
* [[/Marite Helena Kuus|/Marite Kuus]]
* [[/Mariam Mestvirishvili]]
* [[/Hannah Caroline Segerkrantz]]

===BUDGET===

Participants receive stipends from the Erasmus programme to cover travel expenses.
===ACCOMMODATION===

We will be staying at Narva Art Residency (NART)
*https://www.nart.ee/en/residency/
*https://g.co/kgs/uLm4yKZ
The residency has two '''common sleeping areas''' which you can see [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avOYADrNMBY here]. To '''book a space''' please fill out this Google form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfw00YebTE9C9GpAEJViwnC2q2s1tjGPMKmpTp9YLkhDR1abA/viewform?pli=1<nowiki/>The price for accommodation at NaRt is '''15€''' per night, '''75€''' for the whole week.

S'''ubmit''' your reservation '''by''' '''April 29th'''!

If you need or prefer more privacy, there are plenty of '''Air BnB''' spaces available in Narva. For further details see the info sheet below.

'''Info Sheet Accomodation & Arrival'''

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DB6yc_PfR_PKR0QnDerWHTY-JDR-xenj?usp=drive_link

GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Ina Kwon

2025-05-05T22:29:54Z

Ina:

===== Research interest: =====
The project explores post-mining landscapes and their relationship to migration and work. I'm interested in how these landscapes can be read and perceived, seen, heard, smelled, whether traces of former industrial use and occupation can be found, and how they are remembered, both officially and informally. I plan to focus on the stories of (former) female workers of the mining industry as well as descriptions of the migration of people, vegetation and natural elements.

===== Technical description: =====
I would like to make field trips to the Aidu quarry and Kiviõli Adventure Centre. Documentation by walking, video, photos, drawings, writing. However, the Adventure Centre seems to be closed in May. It would still be interesting to visit the surrounding area.
I would also like to interview (former) female workers of the mining industry and their children. The interview would have to be conducted in English, as I don't speak Estonian or Russian, or with the help of translators.
I plan to visit the Narva Museum and others to explore how mining and the people involved are integrated into the collective national memory. Possible outcome is a collage or video work.

===== References: =====
Eeva Kesküla, Waste People/Value Producers. Ambiguity, Indeterminacy, and Postsocialist Russian-Speaking Miners

GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Ina Kwon

2025-05-05T22:28:46Z

Ina:

Research interest:
The project explores post-mining landscapes and their relationship to migration and work. I'm interested in how these landscapes can be read and perceived, seen, heard, smelled, whether traces of former industrial use and occupation can be found, and how they are remembered, both officially and informally. I plan to focus on the stories of (former) female workers of the mining industry as well as descriptions of the migration of people, vegetation and natural elements.

Technical description:
I would like to make field trips to the Aidu quarry and Kiviõli Adventure Centre. Documentation by walking, video, photos, drawings, writing. However, the Adventure Centre seems to be closed in May. It would still be interesting to visit the surrounding area.
I would also like to interview (former) female workers of the mining industry and their children. The interview would have to be conducted in English, as I don't speak Estonian or Russian, or with the help of translators.
I plan to visit the Narva Museum and others to explore how mining and the people involved are integrated into the collective national memory. Possible outcome is a collage or video work.

References:
Eeva Kesküla, Waste People/Value Producers. Ambiguity, Indeterminacy, and Postsocialist Russian-Speaking Miners

GMU:Re-enchanting the field/Ina Kwon

2025-04-11T10:38:55Z

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