🌱 WORKSHOP BRIEF 🐝

by Eazuka Khazrik

During a time of accelerated global colonial expansion and contagious resistance, when the Zionist entity is assaulting and plundering olive groves in Palestine and Lebanon while killing between 80,000,000 and 200,000,000 bees in Jabal Aamel, Southern Lebanon in the last three years alone, when agricultural fields are being increasingly targeted with airstrikes and drone-borne herbicides, and when water resources on indigenous land around the world are stolen and poisoned away from agricultural and sovereign human use, this urgency is what calls us to gather, unlearn and relearn together. What is under attack is the whole living fabric that houses, teaches and feeds our peoples: the pollinators and their keepers, the living groves and the wild medicine, the water and the soil, and the ancestral knowledge of how to care for them all.Which planet(s) rule and feed the olive tree, the eggplant and the pomegranate; why do we and how can we prepare plant medicine for fellow plants – not just humans; what did The People of the Oasis teach the Chaldeans of fertilisers prepared in 51 years or 7 and how do we continue to thank them for their lessons today; how do we honour trans-millennial indigenous wisdom and attribution while coming together for phytoremediation today and in the future; and on which astrological bases can we derive medicine from the dew on plants and prepare إكسير الزهور iksīr al-zuhūr(flower essences)?

The teachings I will share with you to better care for our land and food sovereignty and bolster our power to strike in the world, are rooted in the polymathic, astrological wisdom that my Chaldean grandmother has taught me, in the untranslated and hard-to-date manuscripts of Kaldayutha, trans-millennial Babylonian Farmers’ Guides and Zame Hymns on astrology, agriculture, medicine and plant dream interpretation, and in my active exchanges with local farmers and documentations of indigenous agricultural practices across Bilad Al-Sham and Beit Nahrein.Informed by the moon and the multi-planetary photosyntheses and cycles of astral bodies, we will be exploring hands-on when and how to de-contaminate the soil and the water bodies, when to plant and what to plant when, and when to harvest with multi-specific care and considerations.

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🫀 ABOUT YOUR EDUCATRESS 🐝

Eazuka Khazrik

Eazuka Khazrik nurtures a plural, liberatory practice in music, education and transgenerational healing. Working across a multiplicity of spaces and constellations that engage with locally entrenched universalisms, her work is guided by a trans-millennial production of knowledge that refuses to separate people from their knowledge and the land. While probing the unity of science and the multi-dimensionality of experience in an age that institutes separation, over the past 15 years, her indisciplinary practice has been revolving around the collective search and need for polymathy and transformational infrastructure in our shared present and long-term future. She has been initiated into Chaldean Astrology by her grandmother at the age of 10, in year 7300 of their enduring Chaldean calendar and currently speaks 5 languages. She holds a BA in Linguistics and a BA in Theatre from the Lebanese University(LB) and a MS in Art, Culture and Technology from MIT(US) where she was awarded the Ada Lovelace prize.

Khazrik has been a fellow at Home Workspace Programme(2012-13), the MIT Department of Architecture(2015-17) Digital Earth(2018-19), SHAPE Platform(2021-22) and the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Health (2022-23), among others and has been teaching in several community spaces, alongside universities, such as HfK Bremen, the FNHW Academy of Art & Design in Basel, Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg, NTNU, among others. She is the founder of the liberatory platforms “ خريطة الظلام Cartography of Darkness”, AATMA✦ عتمة, “Astrorevolt ܟܪܟܐ” and “Reading Computers قراءة الحواسيب”. Having grown up around a quarry contaminated with military waste brought from the United Empire of Genocide into Lebanon, she has been active in struggles for environmental justice since early adolescence. Eazuka is of Lebanese, Chaldean, Armenian, Assyrian and Indian descent and is based in Lebanon.