WETBEINGS

WETBEING is a transdisciplinary program rooted in the biodiverse organism and troubled ecosystem of the Aukštumala raised bog, a peatland in the Nemunas river delta, at the Baltic coast. From and for this wetbeing, WETBEINGS gathers approaches and examples of contemporary, historical and future forms of living in and with peatlands which are based on mutuality and sustainable survival of humans and peatlands. 

Aukštumala is a 9000 years old living archive stretching themselves between the lake Krokų Lanka and the lower reaches of the rivers Tenenis and Minija in the delta of the Nemunas river. And Aukštumala is one of the largest peat extraction sites in the Baltics. Bogs are some of the oldest beings in our environments. How can we listen to the stories they carry, and together craft what the Potawatomi botanist and author Robin Wall Kimmerer calls “old stories and new ones that can be medicine for our broken relationship with earth”? WETBEINGS wonders, what is the ecosystem memory that returns with the waters in rewetting these amphibian spaces?