
The Promise of the Black Grouse
Monique Besten
8th September, 2021
Last in our present series of Other Kingdoms we bring you Monique Besten's elegy on the black grouse of her native Netherlands from Issue 19.
Monique Besten is an artist, writer and educator based in Barcelona and Amsterdam. She makes long-distance performative walks through Europe and researches slow waysof being, connections between artistic media and different fields of life. She teaches performance art and artistic survival skills at the HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, NL and is a longtime contributor to Dark Mountain books and events.