Murmuring Voices

Day's Outline

10:00 am – Welcome coffee. Room TB.011.

10:15 am – Fluid Futures Introduction by Anja Veirman. 

10:30 am – Environmental Dialogue in the park initiated by Breg Horemans.

11:00 am – Keynote presentation Maria José Murillo & the Noqanchis weaving collective. & discussion moderated by Juan Duque. Auditorium C122. 

12:30 pm – Lunch from the Communal Oven by Lara Bongard & Quiet Time/Collective Nap

2:00 pm – Dye Garden Intervention by Annelotte Lammertse and Anna Püschel 

2:30 pm – Workshop intervention by Sophie Krier, Sparks from the Pluriverse: Like a Moth to a Flame. A practice of mutual listening with Rites of Passage & Vision Quest guide Natasha Lythgoe (The Art of Rewilding). Room TB.011.

4:30 pm – Feedback Session and last Remarks

5:30 pm – Closing Drink 

Keynote Presentations

Morning 

we welcome Maria José Murillo, sharing her work with the Noqanchis collective through a decolonial lens, focused on community-driven histories and embodied narratives.

Maria José Murillo is a fiber artist, researcher, and cultural worker dedicated to cultivating and reclaiming her Andean textile heritage, historically excluded from Peruvian art schools. Murillo bridges ancestral traditions with modern techniques to explore her heterogeneous cultural identity and enter into a relation with her ancestors. In 2019, she returned to Peru to lead the Education Department at the Centro de Textiles Tradicionales del Cusco. She later co-founded the art collective Noqanchis. Noqanchis is an art collective founded by Alipio Melo, Danitza Willka and María José Murillo. Rooted in the essence of Andean weaving, their purpose is to intertwine their worldviews and experiences as contemporary textile artists. Noqanchis, in Quechua, translates as ‘we all.’ It is an inclusive we (+), which differs from noqayku, or restrictive we (-). Unlike Western languages, Quechua retains the same root for ‘I’ [noqa] as for ‘we’ [noqanchis / noqayku], thus evidencing the inseparable link between the individual and the community in the construction of the Andean identity.

Afternoon

Sophie Krier will lead an interactive workshop session with an introductory talk, an online live conversation with facilitator Natasha Lythgoe on sensory grounding techniques, and a mutual listening exercise exploring “affirming aliveness” using an (audio) talk between Aslı Hatipoğlu and Pascale Gatzen. The session will close with a sharing circle, inviting reflections and personal insights.

Sophie Krier is a relational artist, editor and researcher. Through her collaborative works she interweaves biographies of beings and places by conceiving situations for shared reflection. Alternative, informal learning spaces realised over the years include the book series Field Essays (2008-ongoing), through which she makes room for listening pauses between practitioners and thinkers; School of Verticality (2018-ongoing), a program focussing on ‘acupuncture of place’ ; a series of site specific outdoor classrooms (Hunnie Field Classroom, 2012; Metamorfose Lokaal, 2017; Garden of Moving Times, 2024) ; and the podcast series and exhibition In Search of the Pluriverse(2020-ongoing) commissioned by Nieuwe Instituut and co-curated with Erik Wong.

During

Embodied sessions in the park: 

During the day the Fluid Futures members will lead sensory experiences around Ter Beken’s green spaces, touching on the site’s hidden currents and historical layers. 

•​An environmental dialogue in the old landscape park, a guided session in the Dye Garden and a lunch performance around the collective oven by Breg Horemans, Anna Püschel, Annelotte Lammertse and Lara Bongard.

What to bring

• Yoga mat and warm blanket or scarf (for the collective nap and workshop with Sophie Krier).
• A physical object that represents a murmuring voice (for the opening conversation and workshop with Sophie Krier.)
• Part of the day will be spent outside in the park, so don’t forget to put on warm clothes and shoes.