Cunning of Weeds

During the residency at workspacebrussels, Nina Djekić will work towards a performative text that looks into the various empathic links between the female and the botanical. Drawing from historical references such as the (shriveling) gardens of Adonia that can be understood as a proto-feminist gesture of rebellion against the male dominated epistemologies of Ancient Athens or the deadly nightshade, since the middle ages associated with witchcraft as one of the ingredients of the flying ointment. Her curiosity extends to other, fictional or speculative entanglements of similar sorts. Intimacy established through kinship.

Djekić’s practice interrogates how we could productively conflate the conventions of writing with the scoring of movement. Writing/reading/listening through empathy draws relations and enables proximities – how do we speak across different urgencies and languages?