For its 17th edition, titled Sensing Nature, MOMENTA humbly urges us to consider environmental justice and its intersections with social justice as a matter of sensing and feeling as much as of analysis and grassroots activism. Although science is critically needed—not least to tackle the climate emergency—our planetary assembly of multiplicities also craves forms of knowing, feeling, and doing that create different arrangements of coexistence.

A longing for togetherness—for love—echoes insistently in the exhibitions and in this book, asking us to fathom other possible forms of worldmaking. The artists and authors invite us to forge intimate kinships with nonhuman life-worlds. They propose that we listen to—and observe, smell, touch, speak to—the land, the water, the air not with the aim of distantly understanding, grasping, or exploiting, but to resonate, to vibrate, to be together. Or, perhaps, with no aim at all. They make room for stories that dwell in the blurred boundaries between technology and ancestral wisdoms, weaving in both human and nonhuman modes of knowing. They celebrate that we are in relation with nature, that we are of nature.

Curators

Stefanie Hessler, in collaboration with Camille Georgeson-Usher, Maude Johnson and Himali Singh Soin

Authors

Jen Bervin, Anne-Marie Dubois, Léuli Eshrāghi, Camille Georgeson-Usher, Stefanie Hessler, Maude Johnson, Alexis Rider, Julia Roberge Van Der Donckt, Silverbear, Himali Singh Soin, Joce TwoCrows Tremblay, T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss

Artists

T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss, Lara Kramer, James Oscar, Malik McKoy, Alex McLeod, Sabrina Ratté, Lisa Jackson, Anna Binta Diallo, Frances Adair Mckenzie, alaska B, Scott Benesiinaabandan, Hamedine Kane, Ayesha Hameed, Susan Schuppli, Susanne M. Winterling, Maryse Goudreau, Carolina Caycedo, Jen Bervin, BUSH Gallery, P. Staff, Candice Lin, Laura Ortman, Caroline Monnet, Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Erin Siddall, Ts̱ēmā Igharas, Eve Tagny, Miriam Simun, Kama La Mackerel, Taloi Havini, Thao Nguyen Phan, Chloë Lum et Yannick Desranleau, New Red Order, Tejal Shah, Tabita Rezaire, Sandra Mujinga, Julien Creuzet, Charlotte Brathwaite, Jamilah Sabur, Abbas Akhavan, Léuli Eshrāghi

Languages

Available in English and French

Publishers

Co-edited by MOMENTA / Kerber Verlag

Reference

ISBN 978-2-9818147-5-3 (MOMENTA Biennale d'art contemporain)

Reference

ISBN 978-3-7356-0787-4 (Kerber Verlag)

Number of pages

168

Publication date

2021