The Foragers: Engagements beyond the Human

Foraging Episode 2.03. Joud Toamah and Aicha Ouattara as a connector between human and non-human life

Michiel Dermauw — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:16:08 +0000

In this episode, artists Joud Toamah and Aicha Ouattara join Gosie Vervloessem for a conversation on water, ritual and memory. Together, they explore water as a witness, a connector between human and non-human life, and a force that shapes landscapes, bodies and histories.

Chapters

(00:00:03) - Foraging: Art Beyond the Human
(00:01:30) - Foragers
(00:03:40) - Jute Thuama
(00:04:53) - Pouring Water into a Clay Vessel
(00:08:34) - "The River" by Jute
(00:13:59) - Aisha's Art Practice is Multidisciplinary
(00:18:18) - Ayesha On Multidisciplinarity
(00:25:40) - The Relationships of Water and Sound
(00:32:21) - The Return of the Body
(00:33:43) - Intersection: Water in Animist Rituals
(00:36:50) - In the World of Art,
(00:37:51) - Artists' Relations with the River
(00:43:17) - The relation between memory and water
(00:49:38) - The River and its
(00:57:14) - What does justice means also for water, for environments?
(00:59:23) - The Resistancy of Water
(01:03:27) - "Gowe Seeds"
(01:05:39) - Foraging: The Foragers Engagement

Foraging Episode 2.02. Samah Hijawi and Juliette (Kin Hands) on on plants as agents of world-building

Michiel Dermauw — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:02:08 +0000

In this episode, artists Samah Hijawi and Juliette (Kin Hands) join Gosie Vervloessem to talk about foraging in their practice: the plants they grow, cook with, and gather nearby. A conversation about astrology, mythology, domestic arts, and the relations between humans, non-humans, and land, with plants as agents of world-building.

Chapters

(00:00:06) - Foraging: Artists and the Humanities
(00:01:33) - The Art of Foragers
(00:02:14) - Sama and the Foragers
(00:05:31) - Juliette and Philippe at the Foragers' Workshop
(00:08:38) - "Foraging" in Art
(00:11:57) - The astrological calendar and foraging
(00:16:22) - The Place of Plants in Your Work
(00:18:08) - Aromatic plants of the world
(00:22:49) - secret to joppezi
(00:23:25) - How to cure malaria with artemisia
(00:27:21) - Demanding nature: the story of dates
(00:31:07) - Juliette in the Kitchen
(00:38:51) - vs. Decolonial Ecology
(00:43:50) - Control of the movement of plants
(00:51:28) - Foraging in the Land
(00:58:37) - What is the most political plant?
(01:04:28) - A Future without Supermarkets
(01:06:21) - Foraging: The Foragers' Engagement

Foraging Episode 2.01. Gosie Vervloessem on A forest that answers back

Michiel Dermauw — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:42:56 +0000

A forest that answers back: in the first episode of Season 2, Gosie Vervloessem sits down with sound artist Nele Möller and photographer Tim Theo Deceuninck. Nele works with field recordings, live audio streaming, listening, and mimicry – through long-term relationships with specific landscapes, including the Thuringian Forest. Tim makes images with botanical tinctures and low-tech “land cameras” built from the environments they portray. Together, they talk about resonance, making with non-human life, and foraging as a practice of attention.

Chapters

(00:00:03) - Foraging: The Environmental Humanities Podcast
(00:01:30) - Foragers Expo 2019
(00:02:17) - Tim Teo: A Time Traveler's photographic garden
(00:05:29) - Tim Teo's Practice is an Ecology of Listening
(00:07:09) - Exploring the swamp of Brussels
(00:11:04) - The Place of Photography
(00:16:53) - INTERACTIVE AUDIO STATUE
(00:23:22) - Photography and Foraging the Environment
(00:30:54) - Photography and Field Recording
(00:36:31) - The role of locality in music
(00:38:01) - Democracy and the German Forest
(00:46:52) - Photography's Surprising Agents
(00:49:15) - Questions of Activation and Consent
(00:51:15) - The Honorary Harvest Principles
(00:57:13) - Slow and Deep Listening
(01:01:30) - Pollin Oliveros' Deep Listening Exercise
(01:04:18) - Touch Bare Soil
(01:07:38) - Foragers Engagement: Beyond the Human