We want to thank everyone who applied for the Rewilding Cultures Mobility Conversation 2025. The selection panel, made up of representatives from Rewilding Cultures partner organisations, have now reviewed all of the applications and collectively made a decision on who to award the eight available grants to. From the over 80 application received via the open call, Anni Puolakka (Cultivamos Cultura), Catherine Lenoble (Makery), Kim Doan Quoc (Ionian University), Ren Loren Britton (Schmiede Hallein), Thomas Preindl (Projekt Atol), Dharmendra Prasad (Bioart Society), Liora Moser (Culture Yard), and Gemma Ciabattoni (Radiona) were selected.
Anni Puolakka, together with their child and partner, will travel to Côa Valley in Portugal to research and film a project relating about Tauros auroch cattle, addressing historical, contemporary, and future cow-human relations. Catherine Lenoble is going to slow travel to Croatia with her son to experiment with a web-to-print tool companion and reflect on collective authorship, licences and distribution. Kim Doan Quoc will travel to Vietnam for the Foliating Memories project on Agent Orange. The project explores landscapes damaged by chemical weapons and the collective memory of nature, focusing on shifting representations across generations in the Vietnamese diaspora in France and Vietnam. The received funding is going to support Ren Loren Britton in expanding their ongoing work with disability access that shapes the methods and practices of their artistic work. Thomas Preindl is going to conduct 8-day long travel performance Spielplatz Endzeit, a transnational survival performance asking how cultural practices might persist in the eventuality of large-scale technological failure. Dharmendra Prasad will return to the exhibition site Fanefjord Commons on the island of Møn (DK) to continue a conversation on what it means to uproot a site-responsive practice and transport global south artworks to global north, that started when he built the artwork The Elevated Field there in 2024. Liora Moser will travel by land to residency in Mustarinda in Finland. During the residency, she focus on mycelium as a waste-consuming material and the ethics of working with living organisms. Gemma Ciabattoni wil partake in the residency of NO SCHOOL NEVERS in Nevers, France, where she will meet other residents from various disciplines and participate in talks and discussions with experts in various art-tech fields such as permacomputing, live coding, electronics and hardware upcycling and repurposing.
Rewilding Cultures (RC) is a Creative Europe collaboration project, which wants to reposition the wild within the field of art practices connecting to science and technology. As the European cultural sector has been and still is affected by multiple subsequent and coincident crises (incl. COVID-19, war-induced inflation, migration) we need to rewild on terms fit for the present and future. Rewilding Cultures is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, which aims to support European projects in the field of cultural production and innovation. The partner associations include ART2M / Makery (FR), Bioart Society (FI), The Culture Yard (DK), Cultivamos Cultura (PT), Ionian University (GR), Radiona (HR), Schmiede Hallein (AT) and Projekt Atol (SI) which leads the project. More information on the project available on the Rewilding Cultures website.