Creating Mythologies for New Futures, with Artist Tanja Thorjussen, Begins November 23
Four Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom
Sundays, November 23 - December 14, 2025
1:00 - 2:30pm ET (NYC Time)
$150 General Admission
PLEASE NOTE: Classes will be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time
In this workshop-oriented course, we will create speculative mythologies rooted in the natural world. Together, we'll journey through time and space, listening deeply to nature's voice so we can craft stories that address our challenging era and offer optimistic new possibilities for transformation.
Today, many prevailing myths center around heroes, winners, and conquerors—fear-driven, dystopian narratives where a lone individual saves the world. These patriarchal stories too often perpetuate cycles of scarcity and violence, merely replacing one system of oppression with another. Instead of inspiring genuine change, they keep us stuck in destructive loops.
This class offers an alternative: a narrative approach grounded in the natural world. By connecting to and listening to plants, animals, fungi, and bodies of water, we'll explore new mythologies that foster connection and renewal. Drawing inspiration from science fiction and speculative art, we will ask: How can we co-create mythologies—through story, image, and ritual—with and about the more-than-human world?
Our goal is to envision and nurture stories that help us see and shape a different future—letting go of stagnant patriarchal myths, and embracing narratives that lead to healing and transformation. Reinventing mythology can be an essential part of changing our world.
The course is based around a case study, a new mythology around common eelgrass (Zostera Marina) for her project "Song of Increase" at the Helsinki Biennial 2025 crearted by our instructor. Through scientific and artistic research, she visualized the goddess of Zostera Marina and enacted rituals to activate their presence.
Classes will be workshop-based, with plenty of time for drawing, writing, and discussion. We will experiment with different media—no previous art experience required.
Tanja Thorjussen (b. 1970) is an artist living in Oslo (NO). Her artistic medium spans between drawing, sculpture, performance and art in public space. Through speculative research her artistic practice revolves around how ancient art and nature can inform the present.
Images: Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, The Mermaid, 1861; Remedios Varo, The Creation of Birds, 1957
Four Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom
Sundays, November 23 - December 14, 2025
1:00 - 2:30pm ET (NYC Time)
$150 General Admission
PLEASE NOTE: Classes will be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time
In this workshop-oriented course, we will create speculative mythologies rooted in the natural world. Together, we'll journey through time and space, listening deeply to nature's voice so we can craft stories that address our challenging era and offer optimistic new possibilities for transformation.
Today, many prevailing myths center around heroes, winners, and conquerors—fear-driven, dystopian narratives where a lone individual saves the world. These patriarchal stories too often perpetuate cycles of scarcity and violence, merely replacing one system of oppression with another. Instead of inspiring genuine change, they keep us stuck in destructive loops.
This class offers an alternative: a narrative approach grounded in the natural world. By connecting to and listening to plants, animals, fungi, and bodies of water, we'll explore new mythologies that foster connection and renewal. Drawing inspiration from science fiction and speculative art, we will ask: How can we co-create mythologies—through story, image, and ritual—with and about the more-than-human world?
Our goal is to envision and nurture stories that help us see and shape a different future—letting go of stagnant patriarchal myths, and embracing narratives that lead to healing and transformation. Reinventing mythology can be an essential part of changing our world.
The course is based around a case study, a new mythology around common eelgrass (Zostera Marina) for her project "Song of Increase" at the Helsinki Biennial 2025 crearted by our instructor. Through scientific and artistic research, she visualized the goddess of Zostera Marina and enacted rituals to activate their presence.
Classes will be workshop-based, with plenty of time for drawing, writing, and discussion. We will experiment with different media—no previous art experience required.
Tanja Thorjussen (b. 1970) is an artist living in Oslo (NO). Her artistic medium spans between drawing, sculpture, performance and art in public space. Through speculative research her artistic practice revolves around how ancient art and nature can inform the present.
Images: Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, The Mermaid, 1861; Remedios Varo, The Creation of Birds, 1957
Four Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom
Sundays, November 23 - December 14, 2025
1:00 - 2:30pm ET (NYC Time)
$150 General Admission
PLEASE NOTE: Classes will be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time
In this workshop-oriented course, we will create speculative mythologies rooted in the natural world. Together, we'll journey through time and space, listening deeply to nature's voice so we can craft stories that address our challenging era and offer optimistic new possibilities for transformation.
Today, many prevailing myths center around heroes, winners, and conquerors—fear-driven, dystopian narratives where a lone individual saves the world. These patriarchal stories too often perpetuate cycles of scarcity and violence, merely replacing one system of oppression with another. Instead of inspiring genuine change, they keep us stuck in destructive loops.
This class offers an alternative: a narrative approach grounded in the natural world. By connecting to and listening to plants, animals, fungi, and bodies of water, we'll explore new mythologies that foster connection and renewal. Drawing inspiration from science fiction and speculative art, we will ask: How can we co-create mythologies—through story, image, and ritual—with and about the more-than-human world?
Our goal is to envision and nurture stories that help us see and shape a different future—letting go of stagnant patriarchal myths, and embracing narratives that lead to healing and transformation. Reinventing mythology can be an essential part of changing our world.
The course is based around a case study, a new mythology around common eelgrass (Zostera Marina) for her project "Song of Increase" at the Helsinki Biennial 2025 crearted by our instructor. Through scientific and artistic research, she visualized the goddess of Zostera Marina and enacted rituals to activate their presence.
Classes will be workshop-based, with plenty of time for drawing, writing, and discussion. We will experiment with different media—no previous art experience required.
Tanja Thorjussen (b. 1970) is an artist living in Oslo (NO). Her artistic medium spans between drawing, sculpture, performance and art in public space. Through speculative research her artistic practice revolves around how ancient art and nature can inform the present.
Images: Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, The Mermaid, 1861; Remedios Varo, The Creation of Birds, 1957