Francisco Beltrame Trento

Kelp Spillages -

In this multimodal essay, I discuss some of the practices and experiences from the first Kelp Congress, part of the Lofoten International Arts Festival (LIAF, 2019). In the context of the festival, I participated in a workshop navigated by Dr Sabine Popp, Kelp Diagramming Collective. Transversally I touch issues regarding non-human agency, intra-action (Barad, 2003), and especially the understanding of the vegetable and algae life as the paradigm for thinking and developing new subjectivities and art (or not) practices, guided by the work of the Italian philosopher Emanuele Coccia. 

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Francisco Beltrame Trento. Postdoctoral fellow at CERADA, UniArts Helsinki. Member of the Senselab (Concordia University) – a laboratory on research-creation. There they participated in the building of a procedural space/installation focused on non-neurotypical perception. Since then, and their disclosure as a neurodiverse subject, their interests shifted towards developing practices attuned to neurodiverse perception, thinking how it resonates with artistic research, installation, film, and radical pedagogies.