Blue Skies – Bodies in Trouble: Speaking Plants: Decolonial Perspectives on Ayahuasca, Animism

Blue Skies – Bodies in Trouble: Speaking Plants: Decolonial Perspectives on Ayahuasca, Animism and Healing (Emilia Sanabria)

PACT Zollverein, Essen | 12/07/2019, 12.15 – 13.00h

WITH:
EMILIA SANABRIA / Moderation: Mary Shnayien

Plants come with their worlds. According to indigenous epistemologies, plants can be sentient beings, impart wisdom, have agency and intention. Various forms of care are extended to plants. They form part of kinship structures, and their genealogies may be entangled with those of the humans who domesticate and propagate them. Plant medicines like the psychoactive herbal brew Ayahuasca, used in collective rituals, remind us that encounters with others are essential to healing: encounters between patients and healers, encounters between humans and plants and colonial encounters. In her lecture, anthropologist Emilia Sanabria takes a look at the current global rise in Ayahuasca consumption and reflects on the importance of decolonizing our understandings of healing and of what (or who) plants are and do.

In the framework of:

Blue Skies – Bodies in Trouble. | PACT Zollverein, Essen | 10/07/2019 – 14/07/2019

The growing impact of technology on life as we know it brings changes to our bodies, our communities and the environment—what can we do? How can we understand and shape these changes collectively? ›Blue Skies‹ is a festival series conceived to run over several years that invites us to think together. The first edition took place at PACT from July 10 to July 14 under the title ›Bodies in Trouble‹ encompassing performances and contemporary art works, panels, discussions and workshops.

Supported within the framework of the Alliance of International Production Houses by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

The Choreographisches Zentrum NRW Betriebs GmbH is funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of NRW and the City of Essen. Tanzlandschaft Ruhr is a Kultur Ruhr GmbH project and is supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of NRW.