Wandering/Wondering (EN)

Through this workshop, Wandering/Wondering: storytelling as a skill for liberatory futures, we cultivate a different gaze towards the landscape, and glimpse the enchantment of the living world. We need stories to remind us of our relations to place: These stories emerge at the points where the body touches place: speculated fables arise in what one hears, (birds, water in a nearby stream), what one sees (grasses swaying in a breeze), what one feels (seasons shifting). Geospeculation is an embodied practice: telling the fictional/non-fictional stories of a place while moving through it. It holds the potential of a re-connecting, a re-story-ing of human-nature relationships. What kind of stories do we need to tell in times of climate collapse, to help us imagine a liberatory future? 

Grounded in a mycelial net of mythology and folklore, we learn about the political and eco-social potential of land-based stories. As we set out on winding paths through the garden in Ruigoord, we activate our imaginaries: from cloudwatching to theater methodologies, to collectively speculate stories of the land we are moving in. Toni’s practice of geospeculation draws on Zapatista principles as well as their childhood in rural Germany and the local topological tales. We look forward to wander and wonder with you. 

Toni Kritzer is a trans* and disabled performance artist, a gardener, a storyteller committed to marginalized ecologies. 

Unfortunately this event was cancelled during the festival in 2025.