shedding the skin

Shedding the Skin
with Feral and Synthetic Creatures

.zip + Uroboros + Friends
December 17th - 18th 2022
@ .zip space Rotterdam

Shedding the Skin with Feral and Synthetic Creatures is a two-day gathering inviting a collective exploration of diverse creative perspectives on designing with / for change. Playing with tensions and connections between the notions of feral and synthetic, block-chained and un/bound, the xyz and unconscious, this event brings together creative practitioners across various eco-socially focused projects to share their transformational methods, approaches, and reflections. The program presents co-creative experiments with feral care, synthetic sensing, algorithmic mysticism and ocean literacy offered as a 2-days flow of workshops, talks, films, and exhibitions. The daylight program is accompanied by a convivial nocturnal encounter to celebrate the coming hibernal solstice, inviting all present creatures to become feral, synthetic and everything in-between.

The event is set up as a collaboration between the .zip and Uroboros collectives and a continuation of the Uroboros 2022 festival program that took place in Prague earlier this year. This time, the program brings together Rotterdam-based artists and initiatives exploring embodied, technological and otherwise situated experiencing of eco-social change. Uroboros is an annual multi-species gathering of creative practitioners using diverse and diversely situated ways of knowing and doing to reflect on contemporary social and environmental troubles. .zip is an artist-run project space based in Rotterdam Noord. Shaped as an interdisciplinary testing lab, .zip explores the roles of facilitation and fabrication within our digital society.

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