*** This is a work in progress, not spell-checked and far for deployment.***
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.
This essay was supposed to be presented in a video/online 30-min format during the 11th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research 2020 is organized by the Society for Artistic Research (SAR), Bergen.