Kelp Curing

Kelp Curing was a series of workshops held as part of the Kelp Congress in partnership with LIAF in Sept 2019 in Lofoten, Norway.

This series of collaborative workshops was inspired by my PhD research into practices of curing-with Kelp. The workshops explored encounters with Kelp and other seaweeds in and beyond the intertidal zone. The workshops explored collective cooking-with Kelp through encounters in and beyond the intertidal zone. We entered modes of collaborative practice in which language was digested and diffracted in a multitude of ways. The work considered Karen Barad’s (2014) concept of ‘diffraction’, as a lens through which to engage human and nonhuman bodies with practices of ‘Kelp Curing’, alongside Donna Haraway’s (2016) term ‘Sympoiesis’ to describe enfolded narratives of making-with Kelp.

‘Curing’ was a material-discursive framework that engaged with: Preservation, Curation and Healing as matters of care. Part of this methodology also considered how memory operates in relation to place and an understanding of an ethical entanglement between past-present-future.

Collaborators on this project were: Aoife Casby, Tiina Guðmundsdóttir, Tiina Arjukka Hirvonen, Øyvind Novak Jenssen, Paola Ruiz Moltó, Cecilia Åsberg, Anne Cecilie Brunberg Lie and Marietta Radomska.

More info can be found here