Relational Landscapes: Pigments and Plants

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04—06/09/2025

workshop

Three-day artistic research exploration of the multispecies relationships with Ida Ślęzak i Annelotte Lammertse

The workshop hosted by Annelotte Lammertse and Ida Ślęzak is a three-day artistic research exploration of the multispecies relationships in the park surrounding Ujazdowski Castle.
The three-day process will consist of interdisciplinary artistic-research practices. We will engage in an embodied exploration of the plants growing around the site. By collecting, picking up, and holding, we will investigate the ways of making connections with the close environment, plants we encounter, and the colours they produce. Through collective reading, drawing/writing, walking scores and making colour pigments and dyes, we will together examine plants' histories and contemporaries – how they engage and are being engaged with the local and global ecosystems and markets, social and artisanal practices, colonial violence and survival strategies.
The hosts will propose a framework for a collective group process that will enable participants to learn methods of artistic-research work and explore the threads of plant relationalities, both individually and in work groups.
We invite everyone interested in plant research, textiles, and dying, performative exploration of the space, and interdisciplinary artistic-research methodologies.
Ida Ślęzak
- is a researcher of performing arts, a participant in artistic and artistic-research projects, and a PhD candidate at the Institute of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw. Her work focuses on non-anthropocentric relationality and embodiment in performing arts. She explores non-anthropocentric modes of being human, rethinking cognitive practices and ways of experiencing the environment. She recently received a scholarship for a research project exploring the creative strategies and knowledge-making practices in choreography and dance
Annelotte Lammertse
- is a Brussels-based visual artist and researcher. Through weaving, natural dyeing, film, photography, printmaking, and performance she explores the relationships and connections formed within our immediate natural surroundings, guided by flora and other non-human organisms. She creates site-specific works and interventions centered around plants and the fragile, precarious environments in which they grow, responding to and engaging with the pluriverse stories and histories connected to them. Her practice investigates different forms of collaboration, care, and repair that are explored through performative practices and media. Annelotte is currently pursuing a PhD titled “Botanical and Colour Traces: Ecological Assemblages of Interstitial and Precarious Landscapes” and works as a tutor at LUCA School of Arts in Ghent.
The event is made possible thanks to the support of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education as part of the implementation of the Diamond Grant project by Ida Ślęzak.