- [Workshop] Renegotiating the margins of toxicity: Ecofeminist approaches to environmental crises

This is a performative panel where activists engaged in resistance against pollution renegotiate toxicity and toxic spaces through their work: it will include art co-created using cement (Dewi Candraningrum activist, painter, feminist), performed poetry (Saras Dewi, literary activist, feminist), visual art (Ayu Pawitri, NGO Get Plastic) and two short movie trailers. The moderator (Elena Burgos Martinez, political ecologist) will then connect performances and work to notions of toxicity and environmental racism. These notions have been discussed and researched more widely recently, especially in fields like Social Anthropology, Political Ecology and Asian Studies. However, this panel seeks to focus on the embodied aspects of toxicity and will give the floor to the senses. All, audience, participants, moderator, artists, activists, will engage in challenging the margins of academic knowledge and connecting to the lessons of islands within the islands (in Indonesia). We would like to open this panel to other contributions and participation beyond our networks.

Workshop moderator:
Elena Burgos Martinez

Workshop line-up:
Ayu Pawitri - Get Plastic will bring residue materials and product from plastic waste
Maria Sucia - Daur Resik will discuss latest research about women participatory against textile waste.
Dewi Candraningrum - Books/Painting related to ecofeminism, she will introduce them.
Olin Monteiro – will present her initiative: Arts for Women

We will show two film trailers of Febriana Firdaus’s 'Our Mother Land' and Natasha Tontey’s short film 'Garden Amidst Flames'.