Notes from the Forest--Storytelling with the Penan of Borneo

Name: Notes from the Forest--Storytelling with the Penan of Borneo
Start: 2025-02-04T18:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-02-04T20:15:00+00:00
Location: UCL Anthropology

Schedule

Tue Feb 04 2025 at 06:30 pm to 08:15 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

UCL Anthropology | London, EN

In the age of the Anthropocene, interdisciplinary methodologies are seen as powerful tools to redraw and relearn our connections. Fine art practices that examine and rethink the position of ecology, indigenous heritage, and natural processes are gaining momentum and critical force. Moving away from a western-centric vision, they attempt to present new connections with the environment and cultural diversity of marginalised communities.
Artist Paulina Michnowska will explore a recent fieldwork trip to the rainforest of Borneo, where a series of art-based collaborative activities took place with the community of Penan people. It will focus on how deforestation, urbanisation, and environmental changes have affected the Penan people’s way of living and their relationship to the surrounding landscape.
It will also point at the latest approaches to collaboration and knowledge exchange that the Penan people co-designed with artists and external researchers to preserve and protect their cultural heritage.
Paulina's current research interests focus on the link between art, indigenous heritage, and ecology. She will be speaking live in the Daryll Forde Seminar Room, 2nd Floor of the UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW. We also go out on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak