Presenters
This year’s Biotoopia tries to peek into the depths of the underground networks, in order to better understand and protect them, and to recognise that humans, too, are connected to the living environment and each other through many entwined underground networks.
Speakers / artists
Merlin Sheldrake (online)
Biologist, speaker, and author
Bayo Akomolafe
Chief Curator of The Emergence Network, a speaker, author, fugitive neo-materialist, com-post-activist, public intellectual and Yoruba poet
Paco Calvo
Professor of Philosophy of Science, and Principal Investigator of MINTLab, University of Murcia
Young Boy Dancing Group
Performance artists
Jan van Boeckel (online)
Professor of art & sustainability, Hanze University
Helis X
Food Design artist
James Ehrlich (online)
Director of Sustainability at the Stanford University School of Medicine CCARE Institute
Aveliina Helm
Professor of Restoration Ecology, University of Tartu
Maarja Öpik
Professor of Molecular Ecology, University of Tartu
Timo Maran
Professor of Ecosemiotics and Environmental Humanities, University of Tartu
Mihkel Kangur
Senior researcher in ecology and associate professor of sustainable development, Tallinn University
Olive Bieringa
Dance, performance and visual artist
Minni Oras, Leanne Barbo, Marion Selgall, Janika Oras
Regilauljad (Estonian traditional singers)
Inge Ivaste, Hildegard Reimann, Anette Pärn
Art Day's performative guides
Vaim Sarv
experimental musician and vocalist
Jane Remm
Artist and art educator, lecturer of art didactics in Tallinn University
Ave Teeääre & Lagle Suursild
Artists
Kadri Liis Rääk
Artist
Urmas Lüüs and Hans-Otto Ojaste
Artists
Peeter Laurits
Artist