Welcome to KNOCKvologan Studio,

a vibrant hub for creative research and environmental stewardship, KNOCKvologan Studio is founded and curated by artists Miek Zwamborn and Rutger Emmelkamp. We merge art, literature, music, food, gardening, and nature to foster new perspectives on the relationship between humans and the living world.

At KNOCKvologan Studio, we deeply engage with the land and culture that surrounds us. By balancing local stories with global voices, we build a creative community that inspires new ways of thinking, living, and coexisting with our environment.

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Currently / Upcoming / Past

When Animals Speak - Eva Meijer

Saturday 5th April 2pm | KNOCKvologan Barn 

Drawing on insights from their own close relationships with animals, science, philosophy, and politics, Eva Meijer provides fascinating, real-world examples of animal communities who use their voices to speak, and act. In their talk When Animals Speak they encourage us to rethink our relations with other animals, showing that their voices should be taken into account as the starting point for a new interspecies democracy.

In their latest book Multispecies Dialogues Eva Meijer develops a new understanding of the concept ‘dialogue’, which includes embodied, material and spatial interaction. Meijer does not do this alone: each chapter of the book is devoted to a dialogue, or set of dialogues – with street dog Olli, a community of former lab mice, amphibian neighbours, the North Sea, and many other beings. Taking multispecies dialogues seriously is a way to do justice to more-than-human agency and to become more worldly in a time dominated by humans. Rethinking the model of the dialogue also opens up new ways of doing philosophy in multispecies world, which is urgently needed to address the ecological, political and philosophical problems of our time.

Eva Meijer is a Dutch philosopher, visual artist, writer and singer-songwriter. They write novels, philosophical essays, academic texts, poems and columns, and their work has been translated into over twenty languages. Recurring themes are language (including silence), madness, nonhuman animals, and politics.

Fermenting Tales

18th January | KNOCKvologan Barn

We warmly invite you to join us for a shared lunch and recipe exchange on Saturday January 18th from 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM at KNOCKvologan Studio.
We hope to kick off a Ferment Club and invite anyone passionate or curious about pickling, fermenting, or preserving. Bring along your favourite creations—whether it’s chutney, kimchi, sauerkraut, kefir, bread, or any other preserved delight—and share your stories, techniques, and tips. Together, we’ll taste, talk, and explore how these time-honoured practices connect us to both tradition and sustainable futures.

Looking forward to seeing you then!

A way in

16th November, 7pm, St Luke’s, London.

Time passes, leaving footprints behind her. Roots twist and deepen, leaves unfurl, turn orange, fall, and decay, tents are pitched and unpitched, the tide changes. 

Rufus Isabel Elliot’s new work for piano trio imagining the wavering songs that belong intrinsically to a bivvy place amongst the cliffs of Tireragan – songs that transform a place in the wild into a sleeping place. Featuring visuals by KNOCKvologan Studio, it hopes to bring that place alive in the hall of LSO St Luke’s.

The première of the music and video is on November 16th performed by the London Symphony Orchestra in St Luke’s.

On 28th September we had the honour to host two exceptional guests: Alison Phipps (UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration) and Tawona Sithole (Writer in Residence at the University of Glasgow). They shared their insights with warmth and humor, supported by the Ross of Mull Poets.

THIS IS ENOUGH.
We are taking part in This is Enough, an ongoing project curated by Nina Pope and Karen Guthry. This project explores the natural abundance and biodiversity of Aros Walled Garden in Tobermory through mindful observation and gentle intervention.

Exhibition Zitternde Zungen - Salon*8
Gallery Ursula Walter - Dresden - Germany
23.03.2024 - 20.04.2024