Shelter for collective dreaming / Adăpost pentru vremuri incerte
Saturday, 11 October
11:00 – 18:00
Spring Entrance Community from Siliștea Snagovului:
• The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
• ASK (Amaranth Seed Kollective)
• Fundația Trei frasini/Three Ashes
Fabiola Fiocco (Rome): Morphologies of Labour
11:00 – 13:00
More than twenty years after what has been described as the“social turn”, along with the waves of artistic and institutional experimentation and grassroots initiatives that followed, the context in which we operate has entered a renewed phase of intensified extraction and reorganisation of capital, and of the political paradigms that underpin it. Profound socio-economic and cultural shifts have reshaped the terrain of negotiation, while what were once marginal practices are repurposed to serve existing modes of production, consumption, and sociality. In this landscape, inherited binaries and conceptual frameworks from past movements, even the most recent, appear increasingly inadequate to address the complexities of labour, creativity, and collective struggle.
This workshop aims to engage with the spatialisation of both labour and counter-organising, moving beyond reductive dichotomies and established models and towards hybrid, decentralised, cross-scalar forms of organisation and creation. By working together through collective discussion and grounded practices, we will bring together a range of resources and experiences to develop strategies and organisational forms that translate critical ideas into tangible, shared forms of action.
Lunch prepared by Diana Voicu
13:00 – 14:00
Amelie Aranguren (Madrid): Art and Rurality: A Laboratory of Conflicts and Encounters
14:00 – 16:00
What happens when an artistic project chooses the rural environment as its place of work, research, and action? How does this affect local communities? How does it affect the Earth, its plants, and water? What political issues can emerge? Over the course of two hours, the participants of the workshop will assume the roles of the main agents of this community to explore the benefits, tensions, contradictions, and joys that a project could experience. Together, we will try to find harmony and see what we, as individuals, must give up to have a just environment for every being.
Charles Esche (Amsterdam): Getting to know you
16:00 – 18:00
“I feel this land next to the Station is just starting on a journey. If I can influence it, I hope it will be a long one and that the way stations along the journey will be ones we can decide together as a form of commoning ideas and actions. I hope we can join together and join ourselves to the land in time.
This moment feels like the start of such a journey, and I’d like us all to help us get to know this land and share our impressions. I would therefore ask everyone to walk around the land for 20-30 minutes. Take care of what is growing, but feel free to touch, taste, smell, feel, look, anywhere. I’d then like us to come together and each tell us one aspect of the land that they feel they know about already, and one aspect you would like to know more about. It can be giving the name to a plant or an animal, something about the soil, about the air, the view, the fence, the tree; it can be about doing something now or later, or remembering what happened. It can be about its past, present, or what might imagine could happen. Really anything.
I will try to record, but if you can write down or draw anything in the session, I’ll collect it together as a little archive of the first steps on the journey. Thanks in advance for joining us.”
Production: Atelier Ad Hoc Community (George Marinescu and Daria Oancea), Dan Vezentan, Eduard Constantin, Mihaela Moldovan
Curation and management: Adelina Luft, Maria Mora, Raluca Voinea
Documentation: Nicoleta Moise and Andrei Becheru
Partners: The Faculty of Interior Architecture (Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism), The Italian Institute in Bucharest, OAR (The Romanian Order of Architects)
Cultural programme co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund
The program does not necessarily represent the official position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN shall not be held liable for the program's content or any use to which the program outcome might be put. These are the sole responsibility of the beneficiary of the funding.
