weaving stories #3 | the being of relation
Date: Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025
Time: 13.30 – 17.00
Venue: Framer Framed, Oranje-Vrijstaatkade 71, Amsterdam
How do we learn to encounter the world, moving with and in the being of relation?
We warmly invite you to join our third and last event in the weaving stories series, Co-creating conditions of possibilities at the end of the world as we know it. Artist-researcher ro heinrich invites her close research collaborators and the ARIAS network to engage with practices of relationality.
Upcoming session
For the third weaving stories, the inquiries of ro heinrich and Reza Mirabi further coalesce. Both are drawn to ecological modes of perception, dynamically attuning with fundamental shifts in the world—not only politically or environmentally, but at the level of relation itself.
Within these present times of unthought of change, Brazilian Indigenous leader, environmentalist and poet Ailton Krenak embodies a refusal to consider apocalypse. Other futures are possible, he insists, if we radically shift our commitment away from colonial ontologies—logics of categorisation and separation.
Ro and Reza's collaboration is an attempt towards this radical shift.
Their collaboration asks: How do we create conditions for moving away from colonial ontologies of separation, and towards paraontological modes of existence that move with and in the logic of the being of relation?
Ro and Reza's research thinks and learns with process philosophy, black study, Sufi mysticism and autistic perception, and weaves with recorded conversation materials with interlocutors including Erin Manning, Brian Massumi (alongside others), and the poem The Conference of the Birds by Attar of Nishapur. Expanding and proliferating perspectives for languages (embodied, unspoken, spoken), they merge modalities of cinema and performance, listening into the interstices of perception often unnoticed or historically muted. Through the co-composition of attentional techniques—drawn from and between thought, sound, image, and movement—ro and Reza attempt to craft a rhythmic relational ecology. One that foregrounds not the articulation of a centre, but the trembling, flickering edges of experience. A practice of dynamic attuning with the paraontological.
This third and final weaving stories gathering, for this series, will engage participation with reading, conversation and practice sharing with a film-screening-performance, including the (live) sounds of artist, composer and collaborator Sher Doruff.
Attendance is free of charge but spaces are limited.
Context
Working with fieldings of relationality through spoken and unspoken languages, ro heinrich’s work stages the refusal to separate the human and the more-than human, world and body. Her current collaborative research and film project Weaving conversations at the end of the world as we know it—involving Sher Doruff, Erin Manning, Brian Massumi, Reza Mirabi, and artist initiatives like reschooling-with, among others—serves as a guide and thread through this series. Unfolding over three practice sharing sessions, participants are invited to engage with this research-film-in-process. The research explores the intersections of ecological collapse and cultural transformation, addressing our present predicament at the end of the world as we know it.
About the series
weaving stories is a series by ARIAS in which an artist-researcher is invited to share their practice unfolding over several sessions together with participants; all are welcome to join. In these critical times when the scope of exchanges is consistently reduced, we would like to offer spaces for an ecology of practices, where different perspectives and ways of knowing may be engaged relationally towards difference without separability.
Co-creating conditions of possibilities at the end of the world as we know it is co-curated by ro heinrich, fabrice dubosc, and Reza Mirabi, in collaboration with ARIAS, Framer Framed and reschooling-with. This evolving research will also find form in a film work published with THIRDtalks and a performance shared at Frascati.
Biographies
ro heinrich is an artist-researcher working with fieldings of relationality through spoken and unspoken languages. Through (recorded) conversations and collaborations, their practice is multidisciplinary, with an emphasis on film and book making. At the fertile edges of neurodiversity, process philosophy, black study and artistic research, their research moves with paraontological thinking, addressing our present predicament at the end of the world as we know it.
ro recently began a PhD in artistic research with Erin Manning, at Concordia, Montreal, with Sher Doruff and Shira Avni as co-supervisors, is collaborator with 3Ecologies Project, and reschooling-with, alumni of THIRD, DAS Graduate School Amsterdam, and participates in several engaged study groups.
Reza Mirabiرضا ﻣﯾﺮآﺒﯽ is an artist working across performance, installation, and storytelling. He traces where myth, memory, and socio-politics meet in everyday life contexts across Europe and the SWANA region. Mirabi studied Fine Arts at the University of Mumbai in 2012 and holds a Master in Choreography from DAS Graduate School, University of the Arts Amsterdam, from 2021.
Mirabi’s practice begins from the premise that everything - each place, being, and material - carries a story of its own. Rather than overwriting these stories with new narratives, he is committed to look for diverse techniques of listening that allow these already existing narratives to speak to us.
reschooling-with is a platform for learning, unlearning, and weaving solidarity through art, embodied research, ancestral practices, pedagogical experiments, and eco-social action.
