Grounds #2 brings together six artistic research projects that explore how relations, memory, care, and knowledge are formed through bodies, technologies, ecologies, and colonial histories. Each contribution works as a situated inquiry into how we navigate presence, loss, and collective making.

• Shayma Nader – No One Can Obscure the Sun
  A digital reconstruction of a destroyed Palestinian village as counter-mapping, linking personal memory with colonial archives.
• Myrthe Bokelmann & Cèlia Tort Pujol – Assume Calibration Pose
  A reflection on performance and technology after system collapse, focusing on embodied “gut navigation” and residual memory.
• Ruth Razan Loos – Towards Celestial Letters
  An exploration of writing, religion and care through circular calligraphy inspired by the Quran.
• Loraine Furter – Staying with the Itch
  A hybrid graphic work that exposes toxic collaboration dynamics and offers tools for more ethical working relations.
• Sammy Baloji – ‘Le Fil de Sucre-pourpre de Mulohò’ Explained
  A poetic collage tracing sugar’s aesthetic and colonial histories, linking extraction to ongoing global inequalities.
• Saskia Van der Gucht – Where And Who And What We Grew
  A film-based inquiry into ecological scarcity, mutual aid, and alternative forms of belonging and “home.”