This eco-poetics experiment brings other-than-human bodies into conversation with one another, as well as human-like bodies.
Elin Már Øyen Vister & mirko nikolić
Elin Már Øyen Vister is an artist and composer based in Røst, Nordland, Norway-Sápmi who works within several creative disciplines. Their work breaks with Western hegemonic narratives that have placed the human being in the centre and instead focuses on landscape’s innate stories and knowledge. They co-run Røst AIR – an artist in Residency, an artist run workshop and AIR project, at Skomvær Fyr,Røst, Nordland/Sápmi.
mirko nikolić holds a PhD in Arts & Media Practice from the University of Westminster. Through place-based performance, pedagogy and critical writing, he seeks to prefigure and actualise minoritarian ecologies oriented towards natural cultural justice. In recent projects, mirko has been involved in de-extractivist politics, multispecies commoning, performativity of vegetal touch, and unlearning of anthropocentric and capitalist survival ideologies.
WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey