Marlen Eckstein is a visual anthropologist with a special interest in sensory perception, environmental entanglements and ways of artistic (re)presentation. She completed her master’s degree at the LMU Munich with a thesis on the (im)possibility of capturing an atmosphere by experimenting with creative research methods. She finished the Environmental Studies Certificate Program at the Rachel Carson Center by co-curating Ecopolis München, an exhibition on Munich’s environmental (hi)stories (https://www.environmentandsociety.org/exhibitions/ecopolis-muenchen2017). From 2016 to 2020 she was part of the research project Remoteness & Connectivity: Highland Asia in the World (see www.highlandasia.net), working on the Highland Flotsam exhibition and her first documentary film Murghab (www.murghabfilm.com), which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival in 2019 and was awarded the price for the best documentary feature at the Dumbo Film Festival in New York City. Since January 2022 she is part of the ERC research project Foraging at the Edge of Capitalism.
Gathering Plants and Knowledge for a Better Tomorrow
Neoforaging Movements on the fringes of Consumer Societies