WORKSHOP

Framing oceanic agency as a method

Baobab van de Teranga

Framing oceanic agency as a method

The workshop is at the junction between sensitive reflexivity and transdisciplinary academic surveying. The workshop is designed as a participative timespace to think about the foundations of an oceanic method of knowledge production and circulation. The workshop will place the materiality and agentivity of the oceans at the center of the conversation in order to better hear, listen and learn from oceanic echoes in our experiences. 

Baobab van de Teranga (independent researcher, activist and curator Dakar, Senegal/Brussels, Belgium) interacts within a high density spectrum of practices valorizing  non–eurocentric and non–anthropocentric knowledge on how living entities relate in between  time, space, and waters. Weaving links throughout Africa, the Caribbean and Europe, Baobab van de Teranga understands her tangible self as a form of cultural hyphen. Using cartography as a visual and decolonial tool enabling circulation of knowledge and subversion of powers transiting from, within, beyond unconsidered territories and the academics, Baobab van de Teranga is now navigating in a transdisciplinary research aiming at listening oceans as echoes, oceans as a method. www.1312.space