“Alimentos inadvertidos”: experimentaciones entre ecologías de prácticas artísticas, pedagógicas y de cuidado

Settling between Donna Haraway’s proposal of “staying with the trouble” and Hélio Oiticica’s injunction to “experiment the experimental”, we present a series of strategies from which we seek to achieve intimacy with the Medellín campus of the National University of Colombia, a sort of botanical garden which appears as an affirming space for vital niches, through gestures of research-creation in multisensorial cartographic operations. As a result, the cocreation project Unwitting Foodstuffs is born, a gesture of collective more-than-human creativity that, using a video installation, speaks of a sensitive disposition towards the world in the midst of an ecology of artistic, educational and care-related practices, in which a radical ethics of multispecies cohabitation takes place. We close by insisting upon the urgency of dissolving limits between ourselves and our environment, and turning every place, in our case, our campus, into our Earth, to be and to become with it, as a form of situated and singular learning, befitting one who accepts the fact that they shall live and die on a planet in ruins.