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This summer, you are warmly invited to the third edition of Common Dreams: Flotation school, in collaboration with the students of HEAD – Genève: Aylin Balikci, Lucie Cellier, Zoé Gronchi, Laura Laigo, Abigaël Mackenzie, Morgane Roduit and Clara Rouge.
A co-production of far° festival des arts vivants Nyon and HEAD – Genève
When? 15/08 - 19/08/2020
The title of this year is Common Dreams: Moving Away Together
For this edition during far° Nyon, we will propose a nomadic school, which will take place in a forest and with side activities on the Lake Léman. As a response to covid 19 and as a gesture of care, the school will be focusing on the matters of the heart, it will tender your senses with activities involving singing, eating, snorkeling, listening, contemplating, playing climate card game, reading tarot, activating, rebelling and restoring.
Check the all activities and guests per day here:
How our common dreams grew the last six months?
Donna Haraway and Bruno Latour are referring to the need of a “Terrestrial Political Education”, to rethink education, as an attempt to have a geo politically engaged approach as a form to activate and inspire climate justice, terrestrial survival and kinship. Should we then give agency to the future generations and start learning from them? Perhaps this is a more respectful way towards the world we live in today and towards our common dreams.
In February 2020, right before the lock down, we gathered for the first time in HEAD – Genève to share our common dreams on the future.
The first phase of this collaboration was a process to unfold the notions of survival in floating raft-school which would eventually take place on the lake Léman. Commonly we came to the conclusion that some of the essential values to live in a confined space with a small group of people are: respect – kindness – non violence – attempt to love everyone (at least accept people) – express feelings at all times – compassion – patience – telling the truth (when it doesn’t hurt :) ) – be good to everyone (the most you can) – more tolerance – and establish moving-changing rules (always think twice). A kind of knowledge we gained during lock down.
The workshop’s structure is designed in alignment with the four elements and its guests:
WATER: the Lake Léman, an ecosystem hosting a biodiversity of aquatic species.
AIR: Pierre Kunz, responsible for air quality quality control at Geneva Air, Noise and Non-Ionizing Radiation Service.
EARTH: Paola Tosolini, prof. of architecture and sustainable materials at HEPIA
FIRE: Mathilde Captyn, member of the party’s Les Verts comity and in charge of the campaign for The Initiative pour les glaciers. And Hannah Entwisle Chapuisat, co-founder of Displacement journeys , a project stimulating artistic responses to climate change.
This was a promising setting where we work around six main topics:
EDUCATION - ECOLOGY - SHELTER - SUSTAINABILITY - SOCIAL-ECONOMY in full awareness of the affecting terrestrial antropocene and the modes of survival and coexistence with natural habitats.
We’ve imagined a raft where you could simply be as way “to float, to be carried by the current, to create a situation that makes it clear that we do not have control, but that we must learn to observe, understand and deal with what we have. Cooperate, share resources and skills. Not a fight against (the elements, the others...), but a dance with…”*
* interview with Katrin Kettenacker from HEAD- Geneve here
Due to COVID-19 pandemic a floating school on the lake will not be build but still we can share how it was imagined:
More info on the Common Dreams:flotation school here
Common Dreams:flotation School, is an ongoing autonomous climate school, taking different formats in response to the city and collaboration established with the partners. Providing workshops on survival, sustainability, climate adaptation, climate grief and loss of landscapes.
First edition (2017-18) Co-produced by Kunstencentrum Vooruit, City of Gent, Kask School of Arts, MEDS Network- "urban haven", Gent
Second edition (2019) Co- produced by Contour Biennale 9, "Coltan as Cotton”, Straathoekwerk Mechelen and Piraten van de Dijle, Mechelen
Third edition (2020-21) Co-produced by far° festival des arts vivants Nyon and HEAD – Genève / production HIROS
Fourth edition (2020-21) Co-produced by CIFAS, Brussels / production Wpzimmer
Fifth edition (2021-22) Co-produced by Dream City, Tunisia / production Wpzimmer
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