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Entanglements

The first lab takes the Psiloritis massif as a single living system. Climate, water, stone, myth and livelihood are inseparable here. The Ideon Cave, one of the mythic birthplaces of Zeus, sits above upland settlements such as Zominthos and shepherding landscapes that have adapted to seasonal extremes for millennia. Underground, stalagmites quietly record the same climatic shifts these communities lived through. Participants follow the threads that bind a pothole's calcite to a village spring, a museum vitrine at Heraklion or Knossos to a herder's route, and a scientific dataset to a story told in the valley below. As the opening lab, Entanglements also sets out EASE's shared working tools, including assemblage mapping and co-authoring protocols. Its aim is to ask how artists, scientists and communities might map relationships, not just objects.

Lab Participants

Learn more about this labs participants by clicking on their image. Many of the researchers and partners work on several labs, and these connections are shown below. 

Lab Journal and Updates

Throughout the lab, researchers, artists and partners reflect on their involvement in the project. View and follow lab updates here in the form of our shared lab journal. 

Growth and time

20/10/26

Artist Notes

Scott Radnor

Author

Growth / change / nature patterns / geological time and arboreal time.

Conversation in Chainispilios Cave

19/10/26

Artist Notes

(Zillah) Butler

Author

Notes on first day and emerging conversations

Entanglement ponderings en route to Crete

19/10/26

Update

(Zillah) Butler

Author

Thoughts about entanglements, islands, Macfarlane's writing in The Old Ways and thinking about Crete.

A Kettle of Vultures...

17/10/26

Update

Mark Kasumovic

Author

Today we scouted the Day 5 AVL 1 activity to make sure it was accessible on the day… a few surprises and near-disasters along the way!

The morphing caves of Crete.

15/10/26

Artist Notes

Mark Kasumovic

Author

A few reflections on the magic of caves before leaving for the first Artist Venturing Lab.

Lab journal content not yet available, but will be added after the lab start dates. 

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