Aditi Srivastava (Lecture)

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Saturday 13 May — De Brakke Grond (In-person)

Aditi Srivastava is an Indian-Born, London-based new media artist, producing work at the intersection of communication design, moving image, and interaction design. Her work explores speculative futures in the Anthropocene wherein she aims to tie the unfolding ecological crisis in India with histories of colonialism and capitalism. For FIBER Festival’s Symposium she will give a performative lecture about the artistic inquiry on mycelium and the internet, exploring notions of solidarity and swaraj. 

Aditi wants us to look at our forests as interdependent, social, cooperative beings connected via mycelium under the ground. Mycelium consists of little wires connecting trees together, resulting in a collective ecology of living and breathing entities. Understanding this interrelationship could be essential in comprehending our own interconnectedness as well as our interconnectedness with the realm of the more-than-human world.

‘Of Cybernetics and kinship’ proposes a means of liberation from oppressive systems, using the Gandhian Philosophies of swaraj (self-reliance). Aditi links this philosophy with the connecting power of the mycorrhizal networks, showing our own network of disposal that operates in collective solidarity.

Srivastava is the founder of the harm reduction initiative, KnowHarm, which operates to reduce the harm that comes with uninformed use and radicalized, archaic drug policies in India. She holds a Masters's degree in Art Direction from the London College of Communication (University of the Arts, London)

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