Pelion Summer Lab culminates with a public experiment in which we open up the activities of the lab to peers, friends, colleagues, village residents, tourists and passers-by. We invite them to engage with the ideas, questions and creation that have come out of our ten days together. Every year the experiment takes a different form: in previous labs, for instance, the cohorts have staged an escape room, designed a trio of serious/critical games and created a multimodal shrine.
The experiment is always a risk: we never really know how it will go because it depends on who shows up and what they add. Indeed the invitation and the creation of a hospitable space of exchange is the critical first step of the experiment. The experiment is not the beginning, but also not the end: it is the result of experience, but meant to be tried again. In each context, it will be something different. In each instantiation, it has the potential to traverse the regularized borders between research and dissemination, teaching and learning, expert and audience, argument and performance, the lab and the world.
The experiment is always a risk: we never really know how it will go because it depends on who shows up and what they add. Indeed the invitation and the creation of a hospitable space of exchange is the critical first step of the experiment. The experiment is not the beginning, but also not the end: it is the result of experience, but meant to be tried again. In each context, it will be something different. In each instantiation, it has the potential to traverse the regularized borders between research and dissemination, teaching and learning, expert and audience, argument and performance, the lab and the world.
Ec[h]/o/ntologies | Ismini Gatou w/ Anthrobombing
This year’s PSL experiment will be produced through a 3-day workshop during which we will collectively explore fragments of the ec[h]/o/ntological relationalities we are being part of, in Mount Pelion. Based on a research-creation methodology [that can be thought of as an assemblage between research, theory and art] we will focus on the sonic presences [human & non-human], the stories, the voices, the noises, the silenced absences, the planetary utterings, the geological hummings, the sounds of survivance. Moreover, we will try to carefully save some ‘imprints’ of all those affective encounters, using walking and sound-recording, not as ways of expanding in-the-field or capturing and extracting something from-the-field, but as technologies of relating and becoming-with-the-field. The experiment will result in a collectively-built sound-based narrative· a locative media-walk in the village of Makrinitsa, through which we will explore what happens when sounds and stories move-with us (and vice versa). The project will be (and stay) open and accessible for everyone –residents & visitors– to experience it, either during the last day of the PSL or in the future, forming a medium of re-connection with this year cohort’s emplaced encounters and a creative tool that will –hopefully– foster new possible encounters.
This year’s PSL experiment will be produced through a 3-day workshop during which we will collectively explore fragments of the ec[h]/o/ntological relationalities we are being part of, in Mount Pelion. Based on a research-creation methodology [that can be thought of as an assemblage between research, theory and art] we will focus on the sonic presences [human & non-human], the stories, the voices, the noises, the silenced absences, the planetary utterings, the geological hummings, the sounds of survivance. Moreover, we will try to carefully save some ‘imprints’ of all those affective encounters, using walking and sound-recording, not as ways of expanding in-the-field or capturing and extracting something from-the-field, but as technologies of relating and becoming-with-the-field. The experiment will result in a collectively-built sound-based narrative· a locative media-walk in the village of Makrinitsa, through which we will explore what happens when sounds and stories move-with us (and vice versa). The project will be (and stay) open and accessible for everyone –residents & visitors– to experience it, either during the last day of the PSL or in the future, forming a medium of re-connection with this year cohort’s emplaced encounters and a creative tool that will –hopefully– foster new possible encounters.
