Boslab Proloog

De moderne mens bestaat uit vervaagde dualiteiten. Ze zweeft ergens tussen natuurlijk en kunstmatig, technologie en ecologie, werkelijkheid en representatie. Midden in het bos ontvouwt zich een vergezicht: op een landschap, op een toekomst, op je eigen perceptie, je eigen gedachten en je eigen zijn.

“But you are already a symbiotic being entangled with other beings. The problem with ecological awareness is not that it’s horribly difficult. It’s that it’s too easy. You are breathing air, your bacterial microbiome is humming away, evolution is silently unfolding in the background. Somewhere, a bird is singing and clouds pass overhead. You stop reading this book and look around you. You don’t have to become ecological. Because you are ecological.” (Timothy Morton)

FOR ENGLISH VISITORS:

Modern man consists of blurred dualities. It hovers somewhere between natural and artificial, technology and ecology, reality and representation. In the middle of the forest, a vista unfolds: on a landscape, on a future, on your own perception, your own thoughts and your own being.

When you are attentive in a forest, you see that there is life everywhere. Swarming under our feet and above our heads, reaching for the light. But how do we tell the life of the forest? Can we tell stories and make theater without human heroes? Can the forest be the protagonist of our story?

“But you are already a symbiotic being entangled with other beings. The problem with ecological awareness is not that it’s horribly difficult. It’s that it’s too easy. You are breathing air, your bacterial microbiome is humming away, evolution is silently unfolding in the background. Somewhere, a bird is singing and clouds pass overhead. You stop reading this book and look around you. You don’t have to become ecological. Because you are ecological.” (Timothy Morton)

How to register?

On the right of this page (or scroll down if you’re on a mobile phone page) click on the date of your choice to go to the registration form. Please note: if your are you’re planning to come with more than one person? Then every person should register separately. Full = full

Start prologue: 19.15 hrs. You are expected at 19.10 hrs at the welcome sign of the Amsterdamse Bostheater, near the bicycle-parking and the parking lot.

End of prologue: 19.45 hrs.