Assembled from a collection of international and multispecies perspectives, The Kelp Congress is a gathering of artworks, essays, photographs, poems, stories, and other writings that contribute to the recent interest in kelp and seaweed within contemporary art and thinking. The book forages for the insights that emerge through spending time together with these ecologies, revealing their inherent and entangled values. Caught in currents and movements seaweed and kelp are living structures in which other beings exist, organize, eat, seek shelter and rest in. Their biological conviviality is unique – and so is their ability to create a good atmosphere.

The book The Kelp Congress has grown out of the event of the same name, which was part of LIAF – Lofoten International Art Festival 2019.