Next Friday, 15.11 at 17h, we will open up our second Stoffwechsel-Lab this year. Find more information below
and here.
Over the past years, Stoffwechsel – Ecologies of Collaboration
has explored autonomous zones and spaces of resistance, such as the
anticapitalist agricultural cooperative Longo Maï and the Zone à
Défendre (ZAD) at Notre-Dame-des-Landes, where activists fought against
the construction of a new airport. This year, we expand our lens further
and also include Indigenous protest camps in Canada, where new forms of
autonomy, liberation, and environmental defense are being forged. These
protest camps do more than block harmful infrastructures – they
liberate our minds, opening up new ways of thinking and being in the
world.
Our guest Anton Vandevoorde, whom we met this spring at the ZAD in
France, explores with us how knowledge is produced in these autonomous
zones and what happens when different worldviews and understandings of
nature intersect or come into conflict.
We think not only about the ties between movements, but also about
the bonds woven between movements, people, and the land itself. They are
living networks that create new cultural expressions and experiment
with alternative forms of social organization.
And what better place to celebrate these ties than at Lobau, where
activists occupied construction sites in 2021/22 to resist a new
highway. As we walk together through Lobau, we will honor the enduring
legacy of these occupations, reflecting on how they continue to inspire
and inform future movements.
