SPROUTS – ECO EXPO

Archives are never neutral. They are acts of selection, shaped by power, loss, and forgetting. For the 2026 Eco Expo of Sprouts Film Festival, three artists glean from what remains: a parasitic flower evolving through plastic pollution, a fictional Caribbean island scarred by colonization and memory loss, and a disabled bull, sole survivor of a colonial herd exterminated on a remote Indian Ocean island. Together, their works ask what grows when we return to what was left behind, and how inherited images, objects, and histories can be composted into new ecologies of meaning.

Schedule:

1 – 7 June
mo. 17:00 – 22:00
tue. – fri. 14:00 – 22:00
sat. – sun. 11:00 – 22:00

Lou Elie dit Cosaque

Lou Elie dit Cosaque (b. 2002, Paris) is a French-Caribbean textile artist living and working in Amsterdam. Her artistic practice explores textiles and language to weave stories and mythologies that connect forgotten Caribbean memories, symbols and imagination. She seeks to give form to worlds that reimagine lost pasts and envision alternative futures. At the core of her practice is an exploration of identity, as a patchwork of cultures, a layered history shaped by colonization, resilience and exchange.

Ostreoidea is a fictional living land that serves as a mirror to gaze into Caribbean histories. Grown from soft soil and humid air, she is shaped by colonization, memory loss, and survival. But Ostreoidea is not just a memory, it is also a rebellion. The island, once colonized by a high-tech utopian society, saw its soil poisoned and its rhythms disrupted by a civilization drunk on progress yet blind to consequence.

Music composition: Louise Baux

Jori(k) A. Galama

Jori(k) A. Galama works across fine art, literature, and cinema. They graduated from the Artistic Research in and through Cinema Master’s programme at the Netherlands Film Academy. Their fiction and essays on art and cinema have appeared in Metropolis M, De Revisor, Tirade, Kluger Hans, Tubelight, De Internet Gids, and various other artists’ publications. They currently work primarily as a documentary director and creative producer, with a focus on critically engaged ecological perspectives.

Yntolerânsje (2025) is a speculative archive essay film tracing the entangled histories of cows, the Dutch colonial empire, and Frisian identity. It departs from the story of Île Amsterdam, a remote Indian Ocean island where five cows left by 19th-century European settlers multiplied into a herd of two thousand. Deemed an ecological threat, the herd was exterminated by the French government in 2010, save for one disabled bull, now living in a Frisian cow retirement home.

Erik Peters

The World’s Green is Rotting Lime

Erik Peters is an interdisciplinary artist and artistic researcher engaging with the worldbuilding potentialities seeded in the act of storytelling, uncovering how speculative fiction can germinate new universes of being through collaborative formats of making, researching and staging. Exploring queer ecology as a roadmap to alternative futures, they weave pathways between the possible worlds persistently emerging from a world in planetary crises.

The World’s Green is Rotting Lime is an ecopoetic audiovisual installation that speculates on future ecologies emerging from plastic pollution. The work follows the discovery of a new parasitic flower morphospecies that has evolved to adapt to the infiltrating amounts of microplastics found in the earth’s layers. The work is produced in collaboration with Funda Baysal (3d-printed ceramics), Ymer Marinus (audiovisuals) and Jao San Pedro (translation and narration).