Elena Marchevska
Practicioner-researcher and Activist
Country: UK
Cohort: CCL Benelux 2023
"Creative climate leadership has an embodied meaning for me. I see this as a being part of a global community of people working towards better forms of human progress by working with nature. I think we need to move away from the idea of managing people and nature, to growing a community of exciting innovation and collaboration. I believe we need to change the story of exponential progress and growth and develop new methods and tools, that will help makers develop regenerative approaches in creative practice."
About
Elena Marchevska is an interdisciplinary practitioner-researcher, writing extensively on the issues of belonging, the border and intergenerational trauma. Her artistic work explores borders and stories that emerge from living in transition. She is an Associate Professor of Performance studies at London South Bank University.
Project Highlights
Third Nature
Third Nature is an open-ended series of digital discussions: a riot of short reflections on lived, precarious, migrant experience patched onto bigger discussions on feminism and care. Our approach to the project felt borderless – without boundaries, In a creatively nurturing way.
The title of the discussion ‘Third nature,’ is borrowed from Anna Tsing. She argues that the term ‘first nature’ is based on established ecological relations (including humans) and ‘second nature’ refers to capitalist transformations of the environment. However, when she talks about “third nature”, she addresses the entities that manage to live despite capitalism. To even notice third nature, Tsing says, we must evade assumptions that the future is that singular direction ahead.
Third nature was one of the two successful applications for performingbordersLIVE20 open call for digital conversations.
