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These Relations are Forever weaves together agricultural policy, toxicology, water quality research, environmental law, and art around the common theme of chemical pollution. The scientific practices of four women researchers are conveyed and re-imagined following the thread of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDC's), which permeate food, soil, and water, and are increasingly more persistent and everlasting in daily lives.
The four screens form a space across which the collaboratively created rituals are performed. The women communicate, stepping up at key moments to symbolically take part in each of the four rituals, showing support across time and space. In these rituals, methods from dominant scientific practices are woven together with spoken text, movement and symbolic locations and objects. Here ritual is used as a tool to create a moment outside of everyday life, to slow down, be present and show gratitude and to acknowledge the alterations chemicals make to bodies and ecosystems.
Project description
Weaving a speculative story of ritual and healing, where scientific and policy outcomes are intertwined with artistic processes through the thematic thread of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs).
This project brings together the knowledge of four researchers, whose work sits at different stations along a flow of chemicals; from agriculture via law and policy through bodies and into water. Collaboratively we will create four rituals that acknowledge our entanglement with chemicals, celebrate the healing and restorative capacities of bodies and ecosystems and give space to and thanks for these processes.
The four researchers are presented as Wise Women, holders of knowledge and protectors of life; their scientific practices are reframed as relations of care and ritual becomes a vehicle to make connections across bodies, scales, cycles and scientific disciplines. This work will address fertility, community and (more-than-human) health, telling stories that explore the power of positive imaginaries, offering a way of 'staying with our troubles' whilst envisioning alternative ways of being in the world. Through ritual and storytelling we bring into being new possibilities.
These Relations are Forever website.
Meet the Team
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Jemma Woolmore is a media artist, originally from New Zealand and based in Berlin. Caterina Cacciatori is an environmental engineer working on water management. Sandra Coecke is a toxicologist working on Food Safety and One Health. Irene Guerrero Fernandez is a geoinformatician and agricultural ecologist and Saskia Vermeylen is legal anthropologist working at Strathclyde University. The researchers first met Jemma at the SciArt Summer School on NaturArchy which took place in June 2022 at the JRC, and Jemma then connected the group.
What drives this project?
"The main idea that I had by coming into this project and performing a ritual was to slow down science and the way we do science. So it was really about stopping and reflecting on when we produce data as scientists. where are we getting this data from? Should we be grateful for the data that we collect and for the entity from which we collect data? So in my case, it's waters. The ritual is bringing up this idea of slowing down and stopping and using other senses to perceive the environment while we do science.
I think it's super important for science that we don't just see science as a pure production of information, but that these information are linked to our society and to our also relations with nature."
Videos
Presentation of Residency at JRC | 03/03/2023
Interview with iMAL during the NaturArchy exhibition
These Relations Are Forever | Ritual 1 Teaser
On Law & Arts
A blogpost by Saskia Vermeylen on Dancing the Law
Related Events
Jemma Woolmore @ re:publica festival | 06/06/2023 (video recording)
Jemma Woolmore at the 2024 Citizen Participation and Deliberative Democracy Festival | 13/06/2024
Showing of These Relations are Forever @ PFAS Pollution Event | 27/06/2024
More information
More information and links
| Project ID | Test 2 SciArt |
| Originally Published | Last Updated | 04 Feb 2026 | 31 Aug 2026 |
| Knowledge service | Metadata | Science Art Society | Artworks and projects |
