PELION SUMMER LAB FOR CULTURAL THEORY + EXPERIMENTAL HUMANITIES
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    • Ec/o/ontologies >
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        • Sonic Postcards
        • Diaro(gm)i / Διαρο(γμ)ή
        • Care/ful
        • Achillea milllefollium
        • Fidogirizo (to weave, in the way a snake moves) / Φιδογυρίζω
    • Strange Weather Symposium >
      • Overview
      • DAY 1 - ASSEMBLY @ Volos
      • DAY 2 - SCREENING @ Μakrinitsa
      • DAY 3 - MOVEMENTS @ Stagiates
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      • MΕΡΑ 1 - ΣΥΝΑΘΡΟΙΣΗ @ Βολος
      • MΕΡΑ 2 - ΠΡΟΒΟΛΗ @ Mακρινιτσα
      • ΜΕΡΑ 3 - ΚΙΝΗΜΑΤΑ @ ΣΤΑΓΙΑΤΕΣ
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        • Attending to the Departed
        • More-Than-Human Makrinitsa
        • A Shrine to Here and Everywhere Else
        • Unfolding : Water Traces
        • The Tongue of the Unseen
        • Fragments in the Alley
        • Healing Memory
        • Iconostasi for the future
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The weather has been so very strange. Extreme weather events ranging from relentless coastal flooding, acidifying oceans, to desertification, and uncontainable forest fires are disabusing us of any delusions of exceptionalism or escape from the climate crisis now englobing us all. This weather is neither “incidental, nor accidental; it is an intra-active, naturalcultural phenomenon”; it is “the external conditions that structure … quotidian existence”, “existence felt in and as our [porous] bodies” (Neimaris).
 
The public symposium “Strange Weather: Ecologies of Resistance and Repair”, held in the context of the 5th Pelion Summer Lab on “Ec/o/ntologies”, takes for granted the imbrication of state power, material phenomena and atmospheres, the strangulating grip of racism, colonialism, patriarchy and capitalism on the water, the air, the land. We must now learn to live with these more-than-human traumas, whether inflicted or endured. This strange weather has a way of catching up with us all.
 
Our aim in this three-day symposium is to seek out and sound out alternatives to despair and paralysis, on the one hand, and to a naïve faith in techno-capitalist solutions, on the other. We bring together activists, researchers, artists, from near and far, to join local community members responding to what we see as a planetary imperative: to regroup and ground our respective imaginative powers, everyday experiences, and multi-sited struggles for racial, historical, political, and environmental justice. Yes, all these things, all at once. The stakes could not be greater, the timing more urgent. We must prepare for what is already arriving.

The symposium will unfold over three locations - Volos on June 30th, Makrinitsa on July 1, and Stagiates on July 2 - and attempts to create a true space of exchange and encounter through participatory activities and multimodal formats (assemblies, documentary screening, collective audition of podcasts, collective kitchen). 
​​​For any questions regarding Pelion Summer Lab, please contact us: pelionsummerlab@gmail.com

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  • About
  • Summer 2023
    • Ec/o/ontologies >
      • Overview
      • Schedule
      • Seminars
      • Workshops
      • Experiment >
        • Overview
        • Sonic Postcards
        • Diaro(gm)i / Διαρο(γμ)ή
        • Care/ful
        • Achillea milllefollium
        • Fidogirizo (to weave, in the way a snake moves) / Φιδογυρίζω
    • Strange Weather Symposium >
      • Overview
      • DAY 1 - ASSEMBLY @ Volos
      • DAY 2 - SCREENING @ Μakrinitsa
      • DAY 3 - MOVEMENTS @ Stagiates
    • ΠΑΡΑΞΕΝΟΣ ΚΑΙΡΟΣ - Συμπoσιο >
      • Περιγραφη
      • MΕΡΑ 1 - ΣΥΝΑΘΡΟΙΣΗ @ Βολος
      • MΕΡΑ 2 - ΠΡΟΒΟΛΗ @ Mακρινιτσα
      • ΜΕΡΑ 3 - ΚΙΝΗΜΑΤΑ @ ΣΤΑΓΙΑΤΕΣ
    • People >
      • ORGANIZERS
      • Instructors
      • Cohort
  • Past Labs
    • Themes >
      • After/Lives 2022
      • DATA & POWER 2019
      • Liminal Lives and Para-Sites 2018
      • DEMOCRACY AND DISSENT 2017
    • Experiments >
      • Shrine >
        • Overview
        • Attending to the Departed
        • More-Than-Human Makrinitsa
        • A Shrine to Here and Everywhere Else
        • Unfolding : Water Traces
        • The Tongue of the Unseen
        • Fragments in the Alley
        • Healing Memory
        • Iconostasi for the future
      • Serious Game >
        • Overview
        • Soundchain
        • Youmanji
        • Databoo
        • GALA conference
        • AnthroGames @ ViZ in Athens
      • Escape Room >
        • Overview
        • Experiment 2018
      • Democracy Simulation >
        • Overview
        • PSL 2017 Cohort Presentations
        • Democracy and Dissent Around the Globe
    • Cohort & Faculty Alum
  • Info
    • FAQ
    • The School
    • Makrinitsa
    • Getting here
  • Ελληνικa