Kai Lossgott

Kai Lossgott is a South African writer, filmmaker, visual and performance artist. Through his interdisciplinary practice he investigates questions of personal and environmental health as human agency within the

socio-ecological crisis. He holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town and an Advanced Master of Research in Art and Design from Sint Lukas Antwerpen. He has exhibited and performed at the Centre Pompidou (Paris), Dak’art Biennale (Dakar), Whitechapel Gallery (London), and Johannesburg Art Gallery, among others. Founder of Infocus Institute for Creative Transformation.

About

We are in your soil, in your food, in your bloodstream. We were designed to be used once, then discarded away. In ecology, there is no away. Everything is entangled.

The system always works, even if it’s broken. Ask: who does it work for? The design is in the disaster, and the disaster is by design.

This is a call from the future. We are the tiny weird useless stuff in your body — almost invisible, frankly, everywhere — and we cannot speak. Only through speculation can you reach us. You are called to a public assembly. Be weird, act unpredictably. Improvise labels for these fragments. Ask for a second glance, for quiet appreciation, for a beauty beyond what your civilisation has so far imagined. (“song for the missing” is part of the “toolkit for the ecological imagination”, a process developed by Kai Lossgott, artist and educator, to open up encounters and conversations with the reality that in ecology there is no away.)