To get to know something or someone is often connected with seeking and analyzing information. At the same time, there is growing questioning of pressure to produce and extractivism in knowledge production – where “raw data” is taken from places and people to then be transformed into “real science”, for instance, at the university.
This lecture will explore what ways of knowing might be possible through rest. The panel’s engagement with rest-full ways of knowing grows from a critique of extractivism and acceleration, and a deep recognition of our need to rest, for places and bodies, humans and other species. The panel approaches rest as an activist and collective practice, and they seek to explore its potential for knowledge creation.
The lecture will include collaborative hands-on experiments with knowing through rest.
Participants
- Linda Lapina (she/they), Associate Professor at Roskilde University, knowledge and movement worker
- Nana-Francisca Schottländer (she/they), artist and practice-based researcher within performance and visual arts
- Lukas Lund (he/they), philosopher and organizer
This session is presented by Roskilde University.