Curated by Walk&Talk, this session is an audiovisual journey through artistic practices that engage with territories in transformation — geographic, affective, spiritual, ecological, and political. The selection draws from the theme of the biennial, Gestures of Abundance.
The three works gathered here unfold as visual essays on what it means to coexist in times of transformation.
In The Being of Relation (ro heinrich), the thought of Indigenous Brazilian leader Ailton Krenak and the voices of several interlocutors, including Erin Manning, open a meditative space on being as relation — a film that lingers in the trembling edges of difference, touch, and transformation. BeastQuest (Kolbeinn Hugi) combines humour and science fiction to imagine a digital creature entering the ecological simulation GAIANET to configure a server for the Animal Internet — a techno-shamanic delirium where nature and cyberspace become interdependent. Finally, Soy Much (Soya the Cow) closes the session with a queer, vegan pop manifesto celebrating freedom and the abundance of dissident bodies — human and non-human alike — through music, irony, and the assertion of difference.
Between essay, parody, and speculative fiction, these works share a desire to regenerate the images of the present and imagine possible futures. Together, they propose cinema as a field of relation — a space where thinking, dreaming, and caring become gestures of resistance and of abundance.