ANNE JESUINA (TOBIAS DE ANDRADE) (they/them) is member of Team World View and Mythology in the School of Dogger Bank. They are an interdisciplinary artist of Dutch and Afro-Brazilian descent. They give collective grief workshops on social and therefore also environmental issues. Searching for ‘new’ places for power, they combine written word, music, film, performance and costume to reveal and transform the socially embodied grammar of white ‘supremacy’. Anne Jesuina searches for the place where individual and collective responsibility meet and does this by focusing on emotion and from that point healing the individual and collective wounds of our time.
”How is it possible that the Dogger Bank is well protected on paper, while in reality it is in poor condition?”
RESEARCH PERSPECTIVE: BIG SMALL WORLD: DOGGER BANK
How is it possible that the Dogger Bank is well protected on paper, while in reality it is in poor condition? Within the research team World view & Mythology, I aim to explore this question using the concept of emotional regimes. Emotional regimes are a set of normative emotions and the official rituals, practices and modes of expression that instill and maintain them. They influence what we see as “normal” to feel and express and what we consider (il)logical.
Big Small WorlD: Dogger Bank is an investigation into how neo-colonial, rationalist world views – which dominate environmental discourse today – cut away vital layers of ecological reality and narrow our scope for action, rendering solutions inadequate from the outset. By taking seriously the affective dimension in how we talk about “nature conservation”, “sustainability” and “nature”, this project is an act of knowledge activism. How does rationalism cloud our view of reality and the “solutions” we propose?
website: annejesuina.com
