Marjolijn Dijkman & Sam Nightingale
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In Living Methodologies - what enters the field with us? Marjolijn Dijkman and Sam Nightingale explore how (their) personal and embodied experiences are entangled with fieldwork across different sites, contexts, and disciplines (in which they work). The conversation between Dijkman and Nightingale began during Field_Notes: Living Methodologies, where they found a safe and generous environment to explore these aspects of their lives and practices. The resulting exchange opens up questions about what we bring with us into the field, and how lived experience shapes the ways we work, observe, and relate to the worlds around us.
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Author Bios
Marjolin Dijkman lives and works in Brussels (BE) & Lahaymeix (FR). She is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice operates at the intersection of culture, science, and speculative fiction. Working across film, photography, sculpture, and installation, her practice focuses on rapidly changing environments and their human and nonhuman interdependencies. In 2005, she founded Enough Room for Space (ERforS) with Maarten Vanden Eynde, a collaborative platform for artistic research that fosters interdisciplinary dialogues on social and ecological transformation.
Sam Nightingale is an artist-researcher whose work combines environmental media, experimental photography and expanded fieldwork to investigate the entangled histories and ecologies of land-time-scapes. Through site-responsive, material-led photochemical practices, he develops ways to sense and make sense of extraction, environmental change, and more-than-human adaptation.
This text was commissioned by Bioart Society following Field_Notes: Living Methodologies a 10day field lab at the Kilpisjarvi Biological Station in Gilbbesjávri in September 2025.
Field_Notes: Living Methodologies is part of the Feral Labs Network and Creative Europe project Rewilding Cultures 2022-2026 joining partners from eight EU countries (Austria, Croatia, Denmark,Finland, France, Greece, Portugal, Slovenia) in their common interests in art-science-technology research and capacity building for creative communities and hubs to host process-based activities like peer learning, fieldwork, research and co-creation.
Rewilding Cultures is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, Finnish National Agency for Education, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, and the Finnish-Norwegian Cultural Institute – FINNO.