Reimagining our Relationship with Nature

Ersin Han Ersin

Ersin is an artist, director and creative director of London based experiential artist collective Marshmallow Laser Feast. Ersin’s art practice combines a wide range of disciplines including sculpture, installation, live performance, and mixed reality. His work illuminates the hidden natural forces that surround us, inviting participants to navigate with a sensory perception beyond their daily experience. In these spaces, the known physical world is removed to reveal networks, processes and systems that are at once sublime, underpinned by research, and fundamental to life on Earth.

Tanaya Nair

Tanaya (she/her) is an ecologist and artist from Bangalore, India. She is reading a DPhil in Geography and Environment at the University of Oxford, is a visiting researcher at University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, and a Hatha Yoga Instructor.

Her research interests in biodiversity resilience and nature recovery expand across scales (from fine scale to macro scale) and biomes. She loves being outdoors looking for birds and plants, hovering over a coral reef with a magnifying glass, and walking long distances across forests and grasslands. She is actively researching and workshopping how art and science can come together through participatory interventions to roll out research more meaningfully and urgently in the world.

Mitzi Tan

Mitzi is a full-time climate justice activist based in Metro Manila, Philippines. She is on the Steering Committee of Youth Climate Justice Fund and the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. She is also an organizer with Fridays for Future International and FFF MAPA (Most Affected Peoples and Areas) making sure that voices from the Global South are heard, amplified, and given space.

A strong voice on anti-imperialism, anti-colonization, and the intersectionality of the climate crisis, she is committed to changing the system and building a world that prioritizes people and planet, not profit, through collective action.

• All ages are welcome but content is recommended for 16+
• The event will take place at the Flett Theatre, which is wheelchair accessible
• Arrive at the Red Zone entrance along Exhibition Road
• Please ensure you arrive 15 minutes before the start of the event
• Doors will open at 18.30. This event has a run time of 19.00 until 20.15
• There will be 30 minutes following the event to continue conversations with one another and the speakers after the discussion has ended
• A bar will be available from 18.30