On Saturday 28 June, de Appel and Cinetol host Oceans, Pluriverses, and Rights of Nature, a one-day gathering that explores artistic experimentation and radical environmental politics. Panels feature Sylvia Kay, Carsten Pedersen and Fiona Dove (TNI), Rosa Jijón and Francesco Martone (A4C), and Roberta Bosu (Antarctic Rights), engaging with ocean justice, the pluriverse, and legal rights for the more-than-human world. The programme includes a presentation by the Embassy of the North Sea on the Confluence of Water Bodies — an initiative advocating for water ecosystems as legal and political players. The evening closes with the first test performance of the Water Bodies Orchestra together with the Smartphone Orchestra. Fresh Stalls, in collaboration with local chefs, will offer a menu featuring ingredients sourced from local regenerative farms. Amidst art, food, and performances, the program imagines collective futures beyond anthropocentrism.

Part 2: Creative attempts to represent the pluriverse

2.30-4pm: Creative attempts to represent the pluriverse
Francesco Martone and Rosa Jijón (A4C), Harpo ‘t Hart (Embassy of the North Sea), and Roberta Bosu (Antarctic Rights), moderation: Aria Spinelli

Drawing on the Rights of Nature movement, speakers and discussants revisit the principle of harmonious coexistence through A4C’s artistic production, and ongoing campaigns by Embassy of the North Sea and GARN to recognise the rights of the North Sea and Antarctica as legal entities, thereby challenging dominant paradigms of environmental governance, while proposing a shift from anthropocentric to ecocentric legal frameworks.

Performing and reenacting legal documents that recognise the rights of nature;, imagining ecosystems as queer entities through a feminist and decolonial approach;, reframing representation as a call to imagine a future where nature has standing — not symbolically but legally, politically, and poetically. These and other topics will be explored in a dialogue between A4C, Embassy of the North Sea, and Garn Antarctic Rights Campaign, where artistic production and creative communication blend with a shared commitment to shift from anthropocentrism to a biocentric paradigm as a key answer to the current civilizational crisis.

4.30pm: Presentation of the Confluence of Waterbodies (Christiane Bossman, Embassy of the North Sea)