End of the World Research
Autonomous research group
(2022 – 2024)
A research-driven art collective interested in vulgarizing theory through artistic practice and popular education. As young people living through ecological and political crises, our existence is intertwined with massive waves of change and the erosion of everyday life. Instead of being paralyzed by climate doomism, we embraced the curiosity and transformation that ending a world entails, with hope of better understanding what’s happening and where it can lead us. We blended creative and scholarly approaches to present multidisciplinary activities, including: weekly reading circles, community events, and special projects.
(2022 – 2024)
A research-driven art collective interested in vulgarizing theory through artistic practice and popular education. As young people living through ecological and political crises, our existence is intertwined with massive waves of change and the erosion of everyday life. Instead of being paralyzed by climate doomism, we embraced the curiosity and transformation that ending a world entails, with hope of better understanding what’s happening and where it can lead us. We blended creative and scholarly approaches to present multidisciplinary activities, including: weekly reading circles, community events, and special projects.
Notes from a Reading Group at the End of the World (2023)
Published in FLAT Journal: View project
A Twine-based interactive essay, poem, archive, and experience that synthesized the theory, practice, and experimentation conducted to answer: “What is the self at the end of the world?” This question was examined through the lenses of radical ecology, Queer negativity, assemblage theory, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, political theory, and more.
Photo: Oriana Confente
Published in FLAT Journal: View project
A Twine-based interactive essay, poem, archive, and experience that synthesized the theory, practice, and experimentation conducted to answer: “What is the self at the end of the world?” This question was examined through the lenses of radical ecology, Queer negativity, assemblage theory, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, political theory, and more.
Photo: Oriana Confente
What’s Left of the Self at the End of the World? (2022)
Salon du Livre Anarchiste Montréal
Interactive performance lecture and workshop given at the annual Montreal Anarchist Bookfair. Crafting string figures through conversation, carving out curiosities and concerns, smashing reflections of/on Self and Things, illuminating strategies and temporalities, composting in/through/with corridors of (un)knowing. Open(ing) an(d) alter(ing).
Photos: Oriana Confente
Salon du Livre Anarchiste Montréal
Interactive performance lecture and workshop given at the annual Montreal Anarchist Bookfair. Crafting string figures through conversation, carving out curiosities and concerns, smashing reflections of/on Self and Things, illuminating strategies and temporalities, composting in/through/with corridors of (un)knowing. Open(ing) an(d) alter(ing).
Photos: Oriana Confente
Community events (2022-2024)
Photos: Oriana Confente, Luna Nashar
- Weekly reading circles (view sample newsletter on Substack)
- Summer solstice celebration at the Centre communautaire LGBTQ+ de Montréal
- Vernissage at the End of the World, held at Studio en blanc
- Cleaned, refurbished, and planted a garden at Bibliothèque DIRA (funded by QPIRG McGill)
Photos: Oriana Confente, Luna Nashar
