Aurelija Maknytė (b. 1969) is an interdisciplinary artist who uses various found archival materials and natural objects, giving them new forms or contexts.

She has been focusing on the relationship between nature and culture, and is interested in the transformation of landscape in art, wild and cultivated environments.

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https://maknyte.com/castor-fiber-krastovaizdzio-partizanas/

Suza Husse is a researcher, writer and curator with an interest in collaborative and performative practices that bridge knowledges from different social, ecological and historical environments. Suza coordinates the arts and peatland ecology platform Sensing Peat at the Michael Succow Foundation, facilitating transdisciplinary arts and community based approaches towards alive and emancipatory swamp, bog, wetland and peatland cultures. Sensing Peat is rooted in the Venice Agreement, a bottom-up network of peatland custodians dedicated to protecting and restoring peatlands globally through local initiatives and decolonial tools. Suza is a member of the transnational Organising Committee of The Venice Agreement, where scientists, community organisers, Indigenous and environmental advocacy representatives, artists and researchers from three continents organise transdisciplinary peatland protection together.

Žaltys - Grass Snake (Natrix natrix): Companion WETBEING of Suza Husse and The Many Headed Hydra. Their preferred habitats are borderlands and "edge" habitats, such as wetlands, field margins and woodland borders. In the Baltic mythology, the semi-aquatic grass snake is a sacred animal. Household spirits, they frequently lived together with humans, living under the bed or in a special place near the hearth. Even after Christianization’s demonization of serpents, many people continued to live by the ancient truth that there is a snake (known or not to the inhabitants) living under every house and that killing or injuring the snake brings grave misfortune. In the Lausitz region were Suza's family is from similar serpent cosmologies exist. In 2017 when Suza first was invited to work on the Curonian Spit, the Lithuanian tale of Eglė the Queen of Grass Snakes became a guiding story for their collective The Many Headed Hydra and our work with the ecologies and mythologies around the Curonian Lagoon. So the grass snake is a guiding spirit for WETBEINGS, they are already there and Husse hopes that they can help us in our Aukštumala endeavours.

The Institute for Multi-Species-Singing is a temporary moisty singing multi body creating singable patterns out of what we already know and what we can learn from sounds and stories of wetlands.

The Many Headed Hydra

Vytautas Eigirdas is an ecologist, ornithologist and bird ringing specialist. He works at the Vente Cape Ornithological Station (Nemunas delta) as Senior Ornithologist and participate in various conservation projects, mainly related to bird conservation.

Tikutis - Wood sandpiper.

Yasmeen Al-Qaisi is a poet who writes for voice and paper, articulates and performs language with sound, food or care practices towards uncontainable forms of literature. When writing with sound, Jasmina shape-shifts in inexistant institutional forms, invents jobs, engages in human and more than human relations and broadcasts temporarily or mobile on free and public radios. https://jasminescu.com