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Soil Assembly in Ukraine on May 16: Soil Regeneration in the Context of War and Post-War Recovery Organised by the Ukrainian @ecostation.network 16 May 2026, at Environmental Research Station “Hlyboki Balyky”, Kyiv region, Obukhiv district, village of Balyko-Shchuchynka, 35 Polova Street. The Soil Assembly on “Soil Regeneration in the Context of War” is an interdisciplinary event bringing together scientists, ecologists, artists, and professionals working in agriculture. Soil Assembly creates a space for dialogue across different sectors to explore practical and creative approaches to soil restoration in the context of war and Ukraine’s post-war recovery. The Ukrainian Ecostations Network is a non-governmental organisation that unites everyone striving to protect nature. It provides tools and support for implementing environmental initiatives through the work format of ecostations. Ukrainian Ecostations Network’s mission is to bring people together for the development of communities in harmony with nature. Through its ecostations, Ukrainian Ecostations Network helps activists deepen their knowledge, implement scientific and educational projects in ecology and nature conservation, and connect with like-minded people — creating a synergy of actions for introducing ecosolutions and achieving sustainable development at the community level. Ukrainian Ecostations Network focuses on developing a sustainable and cohesive community of ecostations united by shared values and a common purpose. More infos at mey.org.ua and SoilAssembly.net This event is part of the regional Soil Assembly series under the @soiltribes program funded by the European Union #SoilAssembly #SoilTribes #HorizonEU #MissionSoil #HealthySoils images: 1) announcement 2) Bohdan Popov, CEO, Ukrainian Ecostations Network NGO, "Hlyboki Balyky" Ecological Research Station. 3) Aerial view of the "Hlyboki Balyky" Ecological Research Station. 4) Guests of the ecostation. Meeting in the main hall. 5) Interior of the blacksmith’s workshop at the ecostation. 6) A herd of goats at the "Pidkova" experimental farm, "Hlyboki Balyky" ecostation. 7) Researchers establishing a study plot near the ecostation.

This weekend we had the Soil Assembly 4 kickoff meeting, hosted by Hackteria in Ticino, Switzerland, to prepare our 2026 programme in Europe. This year Soil Assembly will be supported by @soiltribes and the EU and proposes a series of spring&summer regional soil assemblies to culminate with an international asssembly in Berlin in January 2027. We will start with the @ecostation.network in Kyiv region on 16-17 May, followed by @kratercollective on 22 May during Festivities under Siege in Ljubljana, and @zone2source in Amsterdam on 30-31st of May. @kompost.zone will host a conference on 26 June in Munster and a festival in Berlin on 2-5 July together with @mikrobiomik . @kerminy_ and @makeryfr will close the serie on 28-29 August in Brittany. In January we will all gather in Berlin for the international Soil Assembly 4 at @spore.initiative . Save the dates! #soilassembly #SoilTribes #MissionSoil #HorizonEU

Our Ukrainian friends Bohdan and Olga from the @ecostation.network have arrived! As well as Dominique from @kerminy_ A new chapter of Soil Assembly is opening! We're visiting today Hackteria's Open Science Lab at #bitwäscherei in Zurich and then head to Ticino for a kickoff retreat of our exciting Soil Assembly program to come this year with the support of @soiltribes and the European Union. Thanks Hackteria and @gasthaus_kitchenlab for hosting us! So glad Bohdan could cross Ukraine Hungary border, with the invitation documents of @makeryfr #SoilTribes #HorizonEU #MissionSoil. We can't thank you more. Soon we will be joined by @mikrobiomikorg @kratercollective @uow_cream @zone2source @kompost.zone Stay tuned! More news to come!

Lines to Follow – Soils to Gather A carrier bag and a trans-local food story on board of Arka Kinari’s journey to the Mediterranean Sea. Lines to Follow – Soils to Gather is a shared metabolism — a slow, transformative, more-than-human artwork. Muziris is the ancient name of the port of Kochi, which traded spices and food resources across the seas long before the colonial era or fossil fuels. In a context where transport accounts for nearly 20% of emissions from the global agri-food system, Lines to Follow, Soils to Gather, examines agroecology, food circulation, and “cultural poaching” in the manner of French philosopher Michel De Certeau (1926-1985). It involved visiting organic farms and custodian farmers, harvesting at artist Vivek Vilasini’s food forest, a low-carbon transport and its transformation into fermented pickles for low-impact preservation. The performance will conclude with the delivery of the preserves to the Indonesian cultural sailing ship Arka Kinari, to return to West Europe in the summer of 2027, in resonance with the contemporary movement of sail freight. By working with land, microbes, communities, and networks, Lines to Follow – Soils to Gather creates new narratives around global food systems. It is both situated and planetary: rooted in local soil, yet entangled with global urgencies. The work embodies not only an approach to climate justice, but also acknowledges migratory destinies and the desire to connect food memories and identities. This project is a collateral of many partners working hand in hand to create a work less human centered. Started during the Soil Assembly x Kochi Muziri Biennale It will last during the time of journey, to then be unveiled in its arrival ports in Europe to create convivial dinners. With the participations of : Arka Kinari, Ewen Chardronnet, Vivek Vilasini, Daniela Zambrano Amidon, Maya Minder, Nora Hauswirth, Arunima O P (Kitchen Alchemy) Music Gendjer Gendjer instrumental by xGAPS @soilassembly @kochimuzirisbiennale #sharedecologies #sailfreight #Rizqart #UOW_CREAM #Hackteria #Soilecologies #translocal #vivekvilasini #EwenChardronnet #MayaMinder #DanielaZambrano #forplaysociety #tba21

After Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2026 Soil Assembly is proud to announce its continuation in Europe in 2026-2027 with the support of Soil Tribes Horizon Europe program. CONSORTIUM PARTNERS: ART2M - Makery - Kerminy → FR Kompost.Zone - Universität Münster → DE CREAM - Westminster University → UK mikroBIOMIK → DE Ukrainian Ecostations Network - GEN Ukraine → UA Hackteria → CH Trajna - Krater → SI Zone2Source → NL WITH A FINAL INTERNATIONAL SOIL ASSEMBLY #4 IN JAN 2027 FOOTAGES Soil Assembly #1, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kerala, India, February 2023, credit: Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore Soil Assembly #2, Tink Uku Pacha, La Chimba, Ecuador, May 2025, credits: Daniela Moreno Wray, Pedro Soler, CICTA, Severin Halder Kompost documentary and Kompost festival trailer, credits: Kompost Zone - Munster University, Kollectiv Orangotango Humus Sapiens, credits: mikroBIOMIK, Hackteria, Gasthaus Fermentation and Bacteria PIFresidency 2024 Julian Chollet, credits: Projekt Atol with Trajna/Krater in Ljubljana, credits: Trajna, Darko Petan, Dasa Bezjak Public presentation on zoom at Zone2Source Amsterdam, 01/02/25 GEN Ukraine, credit: Maksym Zalevskyi MUSIC Ondine's House by Jangwa Cinematography: Quentin Aurat Soil Tribes is funded by the European Union @soiltribes #SoilTribes #HorizonEU #EUResearch #MissionSoil #BackToEarth #EUfunding #SoilLiteracy #HealthySoils

DAY 2 of the @soilassembly at @kochibiennale Starting at 2pm IST (9:30 for my friends in central Europe) and streamed at soilassembly.net and Kochi-Muziris Biennale Youtube account. Second session at 4pm on "Transoceanic Ecologies: Deep-Sea Soils, Hydro-Politics, and Artistic Explorations" with @castillo_vinuesa @tba21academy @robertina.sebjanic @more.than.non.human @greyfilastine @novaruth @arkakinari @e.chardronnet This panel explores the ocean as a vertically layered and politically contested environment, from deep seabeds to coastal and atmospheric waters. It examines the ecological and geopolitical legacies of chemical munitions, deep-sea mining, and other extractive practices, and how these processes shape marine life, infrastructures, and governance. Through artistic and research-driven perspectives, the session considers how oceanic matter—from benthic microbes to industrial residues—challenges conventional understandings of scale, temporality, and ecological responsibility. It also highlights experimental practices at sea, including low-carbon voyages by artists and musicians navigating planetary oceans, as a way of exploring alternative modes of living, mobility, and engagement with maritime environments. The contributions together frame the ocean as a dynamic site where human and nonhuman entanglements unfold, revealing ongoing negotiations between extraction, ecology, and imagination. #kochimuzirisbiennale #soil assembly #transoceanicecologies #hydrosphere #deepseamining #seabed #benthicmicrobes #sailfreight #arkakinari #tba21academy

DAY 2 of the @soilassembly at @kochibiennale Starting at 2pm IST (9:30 for my friends in central Europe) and streamed at soilassembly.net and Kochi-Muziris Biennale Youtube account. First session on "Hydro Soils: From Land to Sea" with @marioashleydsouza @studiohengst @noor.b.ahmed @martinaannabellem Shambawi Vikram @scigalleryblr @sonal_bodhi Dr Jayaraman Chillayil Hydro Soils: From Land to Sea examines soil and water as a continuous, interdependent system shaped by flow, erosion, contamination, and care across landscapes. The session traces what moves through our watersheds, agrochemicals, pollutants, sediments, nutrients, and how these flows transform soils, rivers, and coastal ecologies. It considers how shifting tropospheric events, monsoons, erosion, flooding, and water scarcity are reshaping soil water relations, forcing new modes of adaptation across land and sea. Attending to landscapes deeply affected by human intervention mountain streams, terraced Xields, marshy lands, mangroves, backwaters, lagoons, and other transitional zones the session foregrounds ecotones, tidal grounds, and amphibious ways of thinking. Drawing inspiration from practices, Hydro Soils frames watersheds as living systems where soil, water, and human action are inseparable, and where regenerative futures depend on understanding flow, permeability, and collective responsibility across scales. #kochimuzirisbiennale #soilassembly #hydrosoils #landtosea #watersheds #peatlands #wetlands #backwaters #mangroves #lagoons

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Kerala, getting ready for Soil Assembly at the biennale. Here screenshots of our location scouting for the expedition and harvests that will follow the @soilassembly on January 25 in Muvattupula and Anachal with @vivekvilasini and his custodian farmers friends. People on site will be able to join the expedition. The harvests will be pickled with @gasthaus_kitchenlab and the team and the cargo will board the @arkakinari . Infos soon on soilassembly.net and @kochibiennale #kochimuzirisbienalle #soilassembly #custodianfarmers #linestofollow #soilstogather #biodiversity #fairtransport #culturalpoaching #sailcargo

Bonjour à tous les francophones ! Mon article sur TTT est republié sur Makery. Un grand merci à Ewen :) À TTT, le tabou, la transgression et la transcendance n'étaient pas de simples métaphores : c'étaient une méthode, une forme de recherche, un pouls du monde vivant qui se dissout et se reconstruit. Merci à tous à Ljubljana et ailleurs. Un merci tout particulier à Dalila Honorato pour avoir pris quelques instants pour discuter avec moi, et à tous ceux dont les interventions et performances ont suscité quelque chose d'unique. #TTT2025 #BioArt #EcoArt #QueerDeathStudies #Thanatobiome #UrbanHunting #Composting #EcologicalGrief #MoreThanHuman #ArtAndScience #rewildingcultures #makery LIRE L'ARTICLE COMPLET SUR : MAKERY.INFO

At TTT, taboo, transgression, and transcendence weren’t a mere metaphor — they were a method, a form of research, a pulse of the living world dissolving and reassembling. Thank you to everyone in Ljubljana and beyond. And a special thanks to Dalila Honorato for taking a few moments to chat with me — and to all whose talks and performances sparked something unrepeatable. Slide 2&3 on/scenity performance by le ambigue @leambigue On slide 6 expert from: “The in-taxonomizables,” by daniela Βrill Estrada, illustrated by Isabel Prade. The text is part of the ongoing research project “shapeshifting matter for an unstable universe”, and it was written for the publication of the exhibition “they say identity: we say multitude”, that took place at improper walls in 2024, 225 years after the birth of Mary Anning. All #TTT2025 #BioArt #EcoArt #QueerDeathStudies #Thanatobiome #UrbanHunting #Composting #EcologicalGrief #MoreThanHuman #ArtAndScience #rewildingcultures #makery

My summer adventures as the 2025 Makery summer chronicler-in-residency for the Rewilding Cultures program continue.... The first time I joined a summer camp, I was around nine years old. After one week of maladjustment among my peers, my unsupervised existence away from home ended in the back seat of my parents’ car—with Band-Aid-covered legs and two different shoes. Since then, the only camp I’ve consistently returned to is the HomeMade camp in Switzerland. Organized by SGMK (Swiss Mechatronic Art Society), it takes place each year in a different location—from abandoned chocolate factories to remote castles—offering a unique DIY-or-die, off-the-grid atmosphere, filled with a constellation of people from all over the world. Read the full article here or @bio /en/2025/09/21/switzerland-oscillations-from-the-homemade-super-camp/ #sgmk #haker #camp #