Liminal Ecologies: Thresholds of Transition and Entanglement

Tsionki, Marianna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7770-2076 and Cunha, Mariana (2025) Liminal Ecologies: Thresholds of Transition and Entanglement. [Show/Exhibition]

Abstract

A curatorial research project comprising an exhibition, public programme, and film screening that explores ecological entanglements, climate precarity, and migration. The project foregrounds more-than-human relations and challenges extractivist paradigms through eco-critical curatorial strategies. Curated by Marianna Tsionki and Mariana Cunha, Liminal Ecologies extends their collaborative inquiry initiated through Reclaiming EcoVisualities. The project draws on shared interests in ecological aesthetics, posthumanism, Indigenous epistemologies, and environmental justice. Research Process: The curatorial research was developed through an iterative, collaborative process grounded in situated knowledge and dialogical exchange. Drawing from eco-critical theory, critical spatial practice, decolonial thought, and border epistemologies, the curators engaged in sustained conversations with artists, researchers, and tranzit’s curatorial team. The project evolved through research into relevant theoretical and artistic practices, artist commissions, and the development of curatorial strategies that responded to these themes, enabling an open-ended and reflexive curatorial methodology. These curatorial concerns were further explored and contextualised in the exhibition text, which articulated the theoretical framework of the project. Research Insights: The project underscored the potential of curatorial practice as a form of environmental inquiry that activates embodied experience, situated knowledges, and relational aesthetics. It revealed the importance of working across disciplinary, geopolitical, and ontological boundaries to challenge extractivist logics and foreground ecological entanglements. Central to the research was a concern with borders—not only as geopolitical constructs that regulate movement and migration, but as ecological, cultural, and epistemic thresholds that shape more-than-human relations. Liminal Ecologies offered insight into how curatorial practice can resist territorial thinking, enact more-than-human solidarities, and foster alternative imaginaries for planetary futures. Dissemination: The curatorial research was presented in the form of an exhibition, performance, panel discussion and film screening at Tranzit.sk between 27 March and 11 July 2025.

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