Book Launch – Rest and Degrowth: Interspecies Learning with Moss Piglets
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17.09.2026
Esther Lu
How does a tardigrade enter cryptobiosis? How might a group fall asleep together in a forest? What can we learn from fungi and soil? For the past five years, Moss Piglets has explored these questions through curating, art education, and interspecies learning, transforming encounters with more-than-human worlds into artistic practice and reimagining the relationships between art, ecology, and education.
Slow Queering Communion: Interspecies Learning Practices with Moss Piglets gathers five years of curatorial research and practice, developing a body of thinking around rest, metabolism, perception, intelligence, and holobiont pedagogy through essays, project archives, artist conversations, and participatory exercises.
The book launch is accompanied by a participatory workshop exploring how rest and more-than-human learning can cultivate a radical politics of subtraction in a world where endless growth is no longer a viable horizon.
Esther Lu’s curatorial practice explores how to build resilience toward collective metabolic recovery through engagement with both humans and the more-than-human world. Her work is rooted in collaboration, transdisciplinary research, and alternative learning, cultivating art as a medium for care, exchange, and transformative experiences in everyday life. Esther Lu is the founder of Moss Piglets, and recently published the book Slow Queering Communion: Interspecies Learning Practices with Moss Piglets.
https://mosspiglets.work/