In this critical text, the four authors encourage the reader to think through the categorical differences of wild, feral and domestic with the help of pigs. Putting forth three case studies of environments that have humans co-existing (or trying to) with pigs, the authors guide us to rethink and relearn our anthropocentric ethics through a feral lens. 

The critical spatial practice Power Elastics (invented by Lena Wegmann) enables embodied mappings of socio-spatial situations and relations. The practice is elastic and not complete, nor does it claim to be complete or unique. This potential protocol is a direct invitation to practice Power Elastics with friends or strangers to analyze the broken present, to critique and more than this, to share feelings and tensions of embody-minded knowledge, wild desires, feral thoughts and queerness as a horizon.

The conversation that follows discusses explorations of listening as a practice of entanglement with nonhuman others. This is an approach to sonic attention-giving that attempts to render the individual not as a singular listener, but rather as part of an ecology, an open-ended assemblage of human and nonhuman actors: it applies gentle awareness toward those ‘others’ that may be there, and the ways in which they might, too, listen. The conversation took place during lockdown in early 2021. It directly follows a week of independent ‘entangled’ listening practice, and the texts that interject it are journal extracts by members of the group that record their experiences of listening.

In this reflection by Zoe Off, she recounts the devastation brought about by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in what she calls the “Shadow City.” Memories, objects, and animals are some of the key characters that remain in these abandoned buildings that she walks us through both in a remembered reality and in her dreamscape. 

Zakole Wawerskie is a surprisingly wild wetland located between Gocław and Wawer developments in Warsaw, in the immediate vicinity of Trasa Siekierkowska and Trakt Lubelski routes. It hides an old riverbed of the Vistula that used to meander there, as well as former flood lands of the river. Zakole includes a number of naturally diverse areas, such as peat bogs, an alder forest, and vast meadows inhabited by numerous creatures. It serves as a natural habitat of the largest number of bird species in the capital city. Moreover, Zakole Wawerskie plays a key role in the municipal water circulation system, both in terms of preventing the more and more acute droughts and the more and more frequent floods, as well as in a broader sense (due to the role of wetlands and biodiversity) in preventing the climate and environmental catastrophe. The question of developing this area has been the subject of a tacit conflict for years. People who own plots of land there urge for a decision about their futures to be made. 

This conversation divulges what three artists, Anaïs Tondeur, Diana Lelonek, and Špela Petrič, believe the term feralizing can mean in a world of domination, control, and mass organization. Moderated by Agata Kowalewska, we gain insight into the artistic practices of the three artists as well as a reconsideration of distinctions such as wild / feral / domestic, nature and culture, and invasive vs. native species.