Public Program & Activations

This section of the Joint Cultural Initiatives (JCI) website presents selected excerpts and documentation from the public program of Sensing Interdependence. It offers an overview of key events, discussions, performances, and activations that expanded the exhibition beyond the gallery space into broader ecological and political contexts.

The program included “Oceans, Pluriverses, and Rights of Nature”, hosted at de Appel and Cinetol, bringing together artists, researchers, and organisations such as the Transnational Institute, Embassy of the North Sea, Antarctic Rights, and A4C–Arts For the Commons. The event explored ocean justice, ecological governance, and the Rights of Nature through dialogue and performative formats, including the Water Bodies Orchestra.

The closing screening, I Am the River, the River Is Me, and accompanying conversation further reflected on rivers as living systems shaped by memory, extraction, and resistance.

Alongside these public events, JCI presents additional activations developed with international and local collectives, including solidarity initiatives supporting Indigenous, feminist, and environmental defenders, as well as temporary uses of the exhibition space as a site for collective study and research.

These excerpts are available online as part of JCI’s digital documentation of Sensing Interdependence, offering insight into the expanded curatorial field of the exhibition.