Anitra Nelson is an activist scholar affiliated with University of Melbourne (Australia) and Degrowth Central Victoria.
Her degrowth publications include co-editing Housing for Degrowth (2018) and Food for Degrowth (2021) and the Routledge Handbook on Degrowth (due out June 2025) and co-author with Vincent Liegey of Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide (2020). See https://anitranelson.info/

Fellow degrowther Rebecca Rutt, assoc. prof and active in the University of Copenhagen Degrowth Network. (Situated in environmental critical feminist theory, Rebecca has made scholar-activist contributions to the streets, degrowth festivals in Copenhagen, and more.)

Art and Society Through Feminist Degrowth

Performative and Collaborative Conversations with Degrowth activist scholar Anitra Nelson

The Syndicate of Creatures and Kulturhuset Islands Brygge in collaboration with CApE and Anitra Nelson invite you to an immersive event combining performative readings, communal conversations, and a feminist Degrowth perspective on radical change moderated by Rebecca L. Rutt.
*This event will be in English

Through artistic expressions and embodied engagement with various perspectives of feminist Degrowth, we will explore the simple but radical notions of care, commons, and creativity, and how they question dominant structures of western society and economy. How can art help as a catalyst for systemic transformation? How do feminist Degrowth perspectives challenge extractivist paradigms and offer new ways to think about value, sustainability, and community? 

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Anitra Nelson is an activist scholar affiliated with University of Melbourne (Australia) and Degrowth Central Victoria.
Her degrowth publications include co-editing Housing for Degrowth (2018) and Food for Degrowth (2021) and the Routledge Handbook on Degrowth (due out June 2025) and co-author with Vincent Liegey of Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide (2020). See https://anitranelson.info/

Fellow degrowther Rebecca Rutt, assoc. prof and active in the University of Copenhagen Degrowth Network. (Situated in environmental critical feminist theory, Rebecca has made scholar-activist contributions to the streets, degrowth festivals in Copenhagen, and more.)

The syndicate of creatures: “We are KRÆ. We are creatures. While the capitalistic autocannibliism devours our nature, feasts on all living creatures and living growths; while we humans becomes a bottomless gap of insatiable needs, in a splintered world, where reflection hurts as the world is spinning in the wrong direction; we turn into disturbing creatures – creatures identifying with critters and growths, emerging as beings of the earth.”
tSoC is built around a core of three artists/curators/researchers and art theorists, and we collaborate with a wide range of professionals. tSoC consists of visual artist and art theorist Nanna Gro Henningsen, human ecologist and performer Michelle Appelros, and visual artist, activist and curator Signe Vad.
We create exhibitions, events, workshops, and intervention projects on topics related to our main focus: rethinking how we inhabit this planet. tSoC is the initiators behind the Degrowth Festival in Copenhagen 2023 and 24, and members of International Degrowth Network.