We invite you to a participatory event to reflect on and ground ourselves in the practices and possibilities of post-extractive cultures. An evening to share experiences, dreams and practices of care, solidarity, and decolonial and relational worlding.
The main question for this gathering lies in the living concept of Post-Extractivism, which will serve as a “fermentation starter” to our conversations. Post-Extractivism is a living concept from Abya Yala / Latin America, emerging in territories violated by extractivism. It challenges extractive practices and infrastructures while fostering pluriversal alternatives that nurture relationality – with Earth and each other. Recognising the profound and lasting impacts of the extractive era, Post-Extractivism invites us to face these ruins and to work within them by repairing and regrowing cultures that sustain life.
Through conversation and relational practices – actively engaging with body, time and place – we will explore how this proposition resonates and can be put into practice within our contexts. Together, we’ll collectively imagine how our responses to the interconnected crises we face can be threaded into a larger weaving for a pluriversal world.
In this spirit of emergence and co-sensing, we look forward to sharing this evening with you.
Framer Framed
Oranje-Vrijstaatkade 71
1093 KS, Amsterdam
Cared for by Teresa Borasino, Liliana Buitrago, Gustavo García, Ro Heinrich, Aldo E. Ramos, and Li Yuchen, from the collectives here below.
Weaving Towards Post-Extractive Cultures (TPEC) is a collaboration between:
Post-Extractive Futures (PEF) is a collective of activists and scholars from diasporic backgrounds working across Europe and their localities of origin. They are creating spaces for solidarity-weaving among activists dreaming and mobilising towards postcapitalist, ecological, feminist, intergenerational, Indigenous, and decolonial futures. Their members fulfil roles in non-profits such as War on Want, Amazon Frontlines, JunteGente, Sunrise Project, and Tipping Point UK.
Pluriversity Weavers is a collective composed of Aldo E. Ramos, Li Yuchen, Natalia Jaramillo, Aliki van der Kruis, and Rolando Vázquez. Through pedagogical experiments and performances, they invite people to connect their thinking to the living territory and to deconstruct colonial legacies and ideologies.
Quelccaya – Towards Post-Extractive Cultures is a platform dedicated to nurturing post-extractive cultures. Quelccaya evolved from Fossil Free Culture NL and continues to weave with the community of artists, eco-social activists, Indigenous knowledge-keepers, radical researchers, and Earth-defenders convened during the first public gathering “Towards Post-Extractive Cultures” (TPEC) held in Amsterdam in 2023.
On , we are hosting a reading together session, on zoom, as a preparation towards the event.
We will be reading Ideas to Postpone the End of the World, by Brazilian Indigenous leader, environmentalist and poet Ailton Krenak. This short book offers a powerful resistance to the present: moving past the binary myth of a human/nature divide, and beyond the myth of “sustainability.”
(nb. quietly listening is welcomed, no one is obliged to read aloud. this is an open invitation, not required.)
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https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86552540624?pwd=zIcAjNKbqxLNgbTgJahqzuydH1HUIH.1
Meeting ID: 865 5254 0624
View the Towards Post-Extractive Cultures 2023 program (opens in new tab)
To read a review of the previous iteration visit ‘A post-conference: on post-extractive cultures’ published by MetropolisM.
The lessons and reflections of the 2023 TPEC iteration are gathered in a Szine publication with Stedelijk Studies, which you can download here: Extractivism Everywhere: Experimenting and Reflecting on the Role of Cultural Institutions in Global Crises.
The public event on Thursday evening is part of a five-day gathering among these collaborators. Meeting in person for the first time since the first iterations of TPEC in early 2023, they will connect with sacred ancestral lands and water bodies, ferment foods, draw land-body cartographies, eat together, walk, listen, process, and read. The week’s intention is to deepen relationships and strengthen our collective weaving towards post-extractive lifeways.
On Thursday 30 January, the collectives open their process to the public at Framer Framed, sharing two participatory events: a small-group session during the day, and a larger public session during the evening.
TPEC is made possible by the generous support of VriendenLoterij Fonds, European Cultural Foundation, and Cultuurfonds. Hosted by Framer Framed, Amsterdam.
This event is organised by Quelccaya, a new platform dedicated to nurturing post-extractive cultures, in collaboration with Post-Extractive Futures and Pluriversity Weavers.
