Ash Périer is currently developing a in)disciplinary Situated practice working on projects merging environmental conservation efforts, experimental art approach and local knowledges from the fields she investigates. For the past five years, her work has been focused on water ecosystems with a situated approach. 

Situated practices, a concept articulated by the philosopher Donna Haraway in 1988, refer to ways of producing knowledge through actions that are grounded in specific positions and contexts, rejecting the fiction of only one neutral, universal form of knowledge. They form a political project that challenges dominant and opressive regimes and supports collective, localized, and emancipatory modes of action attentive to humans and the entangled forces of the worlds they are part of.

Collaborating with artists, researchers, encounters and coïncidences, they create objects, texts, pluri-sensorial installations and methods that take care of water ecosystems by working on the alteration of percepts and affects with a concrete positive environmental impact. 
Each sensory installation aims to reach beyond the limits of the art world by investigating contexts of environmental conservation and non-academic knowledges.

The aim of each project is not to en-
courage people to become more sensitive
(a convenient catch-all phrase) 
but to make them capable 
of greater attention.