Collective Core Values

Eternal Terra EAR (Trust)

We draw from long-standing practices in NGO work, informal civic organizing, and cultural institution hacking, particularly in the Global South, to imagine post-national governance practices with planetary relevance.


1. Decentralized Autonomous Governance

2. Alternative Cultural Financing

3. Planetary Eternal Ear


  



    A. Building and testing coordination systems, microgrants, and decision-making tools using an open-source autonomous platform.
    B. Hosting spontaneous workshop sessions grounded in local resources and mutual aid resilience.
    C. Publishing consistent online notes and utilizing post-COVID planetary digital grassroots connections beyond formal institutions.
    D. Securing microgrants by active creation landed in both materialistic and research spheres.
    E. Advancing new political imaginaries rooted in post-extractivism negotiation, care, Mutual Aid & Trust.























    Eternal Terra Ear

    As a 


    Post-Extractivism Cooperative


    Nurtured by Fab City Global Network, 

    our collective is a Decentralized, Transnational alliance of cultural practitioners, architects, researchers, and grassroots strategists. Our community spans South Africa, Iraq, India, Bangladesh, Uganda, Belgium, France, and more, with no fixed headquarters but strong regional nodes and community-led infrastructures. 

    Our shared vision is to rethink governance from the ground up, learning from the adaptability and creativity of networks formed in response to crises, from mutual aid networks in refugee NGOs to feminist care structures in post-colonial contexts, and emerging cultural infrastructures for creatives coimagining alternatives on multiple levels.




    Key issues such as
    Post-disaster Relief,
    Climate Advocacy,
    Drought Evaluation,
    Water Management,
    Future Ocean Infrastructural Transition, 
    Port Energy Infrastructure, 
    Nuclear Disarmament,
    and Multispecies Existential Crisis
    will be addressed through future policy writing.

    Mapping by Carolin Media Brendel 


     



    Ukrainian Film Screening Schedule 

    Home
    July 26th, T&C, Stam Europa Building
    (of the future, in self-construction)
    Brussels
    I invited a friend I met at the street of Belgian Embassies, whose name is Freeman.

    Results belonged to the sincere concrete structure if to no collectivity.

    Organized by skincity__, winnie & krav nah koem in an anti-budget way.
    Materials are gathered as if this government-permitted cultural new building is a farmland where edible resources are grown if you try with manual force while observing the rain with quasi-sensoring eyesight.

    Friends, open call applicants, invited guests gathered for hypothesizing dazed Christmas balls and post-dust atmosphere generated not by machines but by raw concrete and speed of falling artificial earth-made smoke.

    Immigrants from the East need nothing more than the white skinners.

    Race, gender, and unsettled yet remote class colonize all young artists who do or do not inherit memories from their ancestors who can never see the geopolitics now but dare to be spatial engineers, make scenographies, claim ownerships, and divide boundaries in a half-funded art space of concrete materiality.  



    Yet ‘Future of this event might be on your CV’ and individual portfolios, carried rumours say the bizarreness of certain intrusive individuals is nothing but a displaced experience of immigrants who resonate so much with Ukrainians in the EU, whose situation was badly negotiated with the States in public news. ‘Everything is an open secret’, says the boys. Immigrant girls yet risk their lives in survival mode to be on time.

    Who are we all after this dream of buried textiles washed by vinegar’s acidness, only a smaller-than-average body can fit into the shabbiness, and I-deserve-better-ness? ‘Latvia, A Short History’ was never recited as ritual, nor discussed among our beautiful audiences, flirting with each other’s ex-lovers and illuminated job seekers by a nearby garden of perfect spheres. Those senses of time and door keys are both temporally retarded, but painfully buried amid the almost fainted organizer’s purest idealism of them all. Krav’s poem is from the Far East Thai farm land imagery rather than from the lowland. None’s responsibility was heard. A leader shall be self-claimed, or the policy of rights distributed as a social contract of this new space of old concrete.




    Poster by Parham Ghalamdar

    ROOM AS POLICY MAKING

    “Rooms are where we frame our existence. The colors we surround ourselves with, the ways we furnish our lives, and the people and things from outside that we bring in - all of this makes a room. It is where we assert control and where we succumb to innate vulnerabilities, and not everyone has the same one. 

    There are rooms that go for millions of dollars, there are rooms whose walls are made from tent fabric, but within all of us is the tendency to make a space ours, a site that begs familiarity and invites others to it. 

    The oddities that lend personality to a room can be stripped away by capital-driven enterprise, and a place can look very different from generation to generation, but unless the minds of the people who inhabit a space are altered beyond repair, what we build and and how we do it will always be a practice intrinsic to the human condition.” 

    ----Chloe Aiko Stark



    Plural Modalities
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    Events






    Plural Modalities
    by
    Eternal Terra Ear Collective



    D. Petal and Motorbike Dialogue-
    Self-performing installation by Beate Poikāne

    (mixed media installation or  a performative sharing, audio  0'11 min)





    Beate Poikāne

    Beate Poikāne is a visual artist, theatre-maker, and scenographer from Riga, Latvia. Her artistic explorations manifest in various forms at the intersection of visual art and contemporary performing arts. Through methods of worlding and speculative storytelling, she crafts self-performing environments and performances with nuanced visuality. The artworks contain a conversation with actants and non-human performers in shifting hierarchies in an expanded post-human ensemble where the body is in dynamic with spaces, sequences of sculptural elements, and technology. It is an exploration of how imagination relates to space, investigating how the ideas of fictional worlds are interconnected with embodied experiences. Her process is informed by the observations of Latvian post-socialist landscapes of contradictions and socio-economic complexities, lately she issues searching for ways to implement the regional specifics in the character and set build-up, morphing spaces with bodies. Outcomes question the liminality between fantasy and the potential for imagination to become a tool for reshaping existing relationalities and create new belongings. Beate mainly works in mediums of theatre, performance installation and video.




    B. Color Theory of Mediation by Gesine Otto

    C. Aerobic Topologies By carolin melia brendel
    ETE Researcher on Deep Ocean

    marine media metabolisms

    in collaboration with Mona Schieren, Helen Pritchard, Elda Miramontes García, Florence Schubotz and Marlis Reich (Ongoing since 2025)

    The project is situated at the intersection of critical media art and theory, artistic research, queer-feminist science studies and the sociology of finance. Audiovisual artistic methods, geoscientific experiments and ethnographic fieldwork constitute the primary methods of the postdisciplinary and intraspecies research collaboration between media artists, economic sociologists, geoscientists and marine fungi.







    Policy-Oriented Research


    “Risk governance should be framed as a global public good.”

    ——Kennedy Mbeva and Pamla Gopaul, African Union Development Agency.



    Transnational Marinecultural Infrastructure
    GIS Analysis
    Bioregional Mapping 
    IAAC Barcelona x Fab City Foundation



    EU DSA Research Sprint, Meta's Greenwashing Content Detecting 
    Sciences Po, The Open Institute for Digital Transformations




    Events




    Artificial Synaesthesia in Tension Between Sonic And Architectural Composition: Intelligent Computational Infrastructure and Stochastic Redundancy




    Published, Exhibited by Posthuman Art Lab, Foreign Objekt, 
    The Space Gallery, Los Angeles






    Keywords: Sonic Architecture, Artificial Aesthetics, Synaesthesia, Noise, Probability, Stochastic Composition, Object-Oriented Philosophy, Planetary Thinking, Global Infrastructure, Computation and Planning


    Ongoing: Weekly Journal
    Experimental Art for Future Planetary Policy


    To Live in Condition: River Dike Dyeing in Urban Slum
    Artist:  Giah De los Reyes
    City of Iloilo, Philippines & Milan








    Can the Future Health System Cure Tick-Bite-Caused Slow Rotting?

    Artist for Future Policy: 
    Leon Eichelbaum
    Germany







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    Events




    March 28, 2025, IRCAM, Centre Pompidou
    International Forum 2025,
    Speaker: Yidi Wang (Eternal Terra Ear)
    Guest: Jessica Newfield (Sustainable Ocean Alliance)


    April 2025, Citizen Science Month, European Citizen Science Association

    May 23-25, 2025,  the 3rd Democratic Odyssey Assembly, European Alternatives, Vienna. Eternal Terra Ear voiced up as the selected Civil Society Representative.

    June 2025, UN Ocean Decade, ECOP, bridging ocean-related industries through the creative work of Eternal Terra Ear.

    June 23, 2025,  ICCC’25, Computational Design and Computer-aided Technology, Workshop, Brazil,  Hybrid.

    June 26-29, 2025, Mesocosm: Room as Policy Making. Blue Institute of Futures, Milan

    June 27-28, 2025, Transmedia Research Institute x Display Spazio, Milan

    July 26, 2025, Discussion on Displacement from Ukraine and Palestine, T&C as social art experiment, Stam Europa, Brussels








    Upcoming:

    August, September, Participatory Shelter/Pavilion Development for Displaced Creatives, Bodies in Space, Brussels

    September 9-13, 2025, TABOO - TRANSGRESSION - TRANSCENDENCE in Art & Science , Kino Šiška, Ljubljana.

    November 20-21, 2025: The 5th European Culture and Technology Lab+ Annual Conference, Baltan Laboratories , Eindhoven.


    Lead Workshop:  Eternal Terra Ear (ETE): Alternative Infrastructures for Planetary Biointelligence, Alternative Cultural Trust, and Post-Mining Planetary Governance from Experimental Art-Based Policy Making
    Central to our praxis is biointelligence, a governance philosophy that sees the biosphere not as resource, but as sentient system. This perspective enables post-anthropocentric policy frameworks aligned with the logics of rivers, seasonal migration, or marine crystallization. ETE addresses the question for all: How might we transmute extractive infrastructures into ethical planetary biosphere intelligence through shared experimental compositions?
    We proposes to contribute a roundtable that presents case studies, speculative governance tools, and participatory design methods as part of a living laboratory. Drawing on connections with Fab Labs, Eurostack, and Platform Cooperativism, we propose concrete mechanisms such as DAO-based cooperatives, climate-linked currencies, and public art-backed microgrants. These financial tools are seen not merely as alternatives, but as cultural infrastructure themselves, seeding long-term regenerative governance and alternative financial models through civic co-imagination.
    We are also developing “policies as participatory intelligent infrastructure,” engaging municipal innovation units and international environmental think tanks to explore bioregional charters that privilege relational ontologies over extractive epistemologies. By integrating aesthetics, infrastructure, and actionable tools, we foster collaboration between artists, activists, sci-fi writers, and policymakers, generating visions of governance that are symbiotic, decolonial, and intelligence-aware.


    Proposed Format (1h total):
    • Presentation of the Future Infrastructural Model, Case Studies & Tools (20 mins): Demonstrations of our collective platform’s projects and DAO-based financial experiments.

    • Audience Interaction (20 mins): Improvised policy-making session rethinking an alternative future cultural infrastructural ecosystem embedded in geopolitical rivalries.

    • Round table, Reflections & Takeaways (20 mins): Open floor for audience members to present themselves, their initiatives or projects, sharing insights, collaborative potentials, and future points of contact.

    March 3-6, 2026, European Citizen Science  Association,  Panel Discussion: Planetary Governance through Biointelligence, Alternative Financing, and Cultural R&D through Platform Cooperativism, Finland.


    Stay Tuned.






    Urgent Mission: From Future Design to Post-War Shelter and Mutual Aid Safe Network Amid Existential Crisis & Ethical AI.
    Mission belongs to all displaced creatives.





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