We’re happily welcoming Nat Skoczylas at ROOTED this year, with their “Nettle Bar” 🫂
Nat will be offering a space to encounter nettles in various forms and shapes. We will be meeting with them in shapes and forms of liquid solid glutenous stewy. We will recall getting stung by them in the spring while we’re looking for wild raspberries, browsing through the leaves. How they always left goosebumps on our silky teenage calves.
Nat Skoczylas is a genderqueer artist, anarchist witch and activist/organiser, living between Berlin and Massia(ru), Estonia. They are part of new visions (an interdisciplinary collective of eastern European and Baltic folks working on inner transformation and interdisciplinary collective processes), Massia (boiler janitor, prefigurative organiser, fermenter, gardener, cook and community weaver), Casino for Social Medicine (an experiment in mutual aid and solidarity located on Sonnenallee, where they do bar shifts, build community, fix the plumbing, and co-develop the socio-political and actual menu). They initiated femAle, a queer feminist, anarchist brewing project, which was part of the Circles UBI experiment in Berlin for some years.
Nat works mostly with collective collaborative practices – cooking, foraging, preserving, writing, performance, facilitation. They explore the radical horizons, the speculative, the impossible, the unknown, the mystical, and the revolutionary from a trans/queer/eco-feminist perspective. Their work is invested in mutual aid, solidarity, autonomy, the commons, transformative justice, abolitionism, and decolonial, anticapitalist practices.
How are we with nettles these days?
Nat invites us to recall and laugh, make new memories, bite it, spit it, chew it, take silly selfies, flagellate, massage, intentionally sting and get stung by each other, especially where it hurts so it hurts a little less. Let’s do it together?
ROOTED festival is happening on 13 & 14 June, 2026, at
@institutforx ,
@detpoetiskekvarter ,
@radarlive , and around.
See you there? 🦋
![this is a belated wrap up post for the decolonizing eastern europe week that we hosted at @massiaofficinale in the end of september. and what a week it was! thanks to @anarchofermentation and @ne1thern0r for co-conspiring and co-facilitating. looking back at these photos makes me all giggly and warm inside. i feel incredibly fortunate to be able to work together on organizing gatherings like this outside the bounds of the art world, the music scene, and the academy. and in constant relation to the land in and around massia, with other incredible thinkers, movers, feelers. the process of connecting local and global struggles around nationalism, indigeneity, and history through a decolonial perspective focussed on eastern europe felt vital, to say the least. aituma, aituma, aituma![1] a fire we had to conclude the gathering[2] a vareniki making workshop[3] eating said vareniki[4] collectively reading merili metsvahi's text on the hidden matriarchial history of estonia and how serfdom actually helped preserve these alternative power structures[5] one of the many reading and discussion circles[6, 7] a visit to the bog[8, 9] a spontaneous harvest of an edible mushroom named chicken of the woods. estonians aren't very familiar with this species, but it tastes incredible.[10] collectively reading elizabeth povinelli's text on the ways in which indigeneity is appropriated by right-wing groups and what an alternative way of linking land-based struggles and identities throughout time and place might look like[11] more discussion[12] collectively reading an excerpt of suely rolnik's text on the decolonization of the unconscious. dense, but delicious![13] everyone in awe of kseenia's buns and trying to document them[14] said buns[15, 16] a brilliant workshop (party!?) on the queering of traditional folk dancing and singing by @kartulisalat and @muusattomuus. with great critical choreological insight from @madliteller.](https://sp1.picnob.com/p/pt_6737462236224710734524_0_43951182b50f5cf33b1138b68fa405ed.jpg?o=aHR0cHM6Ly9zY29udGVudC1sZ2EzLTEuY2RuaW5zdGFncmFtLmNvbS92L3Q1MS44Mjc4Ny0xNS82NTQ5OTM2ODJfMTgwNDE2MTI4NTI1MzY0NjdfNjE1Mjg1NTk3NzE4ODkzNzYyMl9uLmpwZz9zdHA9YzAuMTc5LjE0NDAuMTQ0MGFfZHN0LWpwZ19lMzVfczY0MHg2NDBfc2gyLjA4X3R0NiZfbmNfaHQ9c2NvbnRlbnQtbGdhMy0xLmNkbmluc3RhZ3JhbS5jb20mX25jX2NhdD0xMDMmX25jX29jPVE2Y1oyZ0gwSUpZdThFSDRmQ0hlNGlIcWE4SE9HVjRkT3RKOHM5RzZ4SF9QWWQxZFhJVFQ0anVGVWVxZ19kUTNIVEFjTEZjNkFEOHVkSlRGdk5VR0tKd1lQYlg5Jl9uY19vaGM9LTQ4dDdvZVVoRTBRN2tOdndFdUJTZlgmX25jX2dpZD1LSnJtSWlLRlpWRGpjQU82TVFoM3B3JmVkbT1BUFU4OUZBQkFBQUEmY2NiPTctNSZvaD0wMF9BZjdCNjZEZWJRd1VXempGVkp3Ykw2Qng3SXpRTm5SOUZBQk04cmhMVjFYYjFBJm9lPTZBMEZDQTJFJl9uY19zaWQ9YmMwYzJj&h=60c14f9d024eb5d9cd25209b6069de0c)
