Anthrobombing: A collaborative storytelling and performance workshop
Alexandros Papageorgiou & Alexandra Siotou
Inspired by improv theater, this workshop invites participants to co-produce and “perform” stories related to the critical political and environmental issues that PSL 5 addresses. During this exploration in collaborative, performative storytelling we will engage playfulness, humor, dialogue and sharing, drawing on embodied and affective knowledge. In this experimental space of social encounter we will reflect on the ways we (scholars, artists, activists, etc.) (could) produce narratives while moving beyond our disciplinary backgrounds and opening up to uncertainty and ambiguity.
Alexandros Papageorgiou & Alexandra Siotou
Inspired by improv theater, this workshop invites participants to co-produce and “perform” stories related to the critical political and environmental issues that PSL 5 addresses. During this exploration in collaborative, performative storytelling we will engage playfulness, humor, dialogue and sharing, drawing on embodied and affective knowledge. In this experimental space of social encounter we will reflect on the ways we (scholars, artists, activists, etc.) (could) produce narratives while moving beyond our disciplinary backgrounds and opening up to uncertainty and ambiguity.
Futuring Waters: Rewilding (Regeneration, Transformation, Purification, Biodiversity)
Jenny Marketou
What about figuring out how to design for the water and its restoration? How do we artists empower ourselves to make living things which create space and habitats for other things to come back into life and cleanse the waterbody?
In this workshop, Jenny Marketou engages with ecological crises, mythological ancestry, and indigenous knowledge and histories in an attempt to propose solutions to ecological issues, to raise awareness, and to re-imagine our relationship to waters in an era of intense climatic and social change. Marketou’s artistic practice is exemplifie.d by her collaboration with scientists, activists, academics, and boat builders as part of The Billion Oyster Project and the Swale Lab on Governors Island in New York, where she lives and works. Thus, during the workshop Marketou will transmit the knowledge, methods, and techniques she has acquired in her long-term artistic research, enriching and creating new collaborative methods of knowledge and artistic production that respond to the increased needs of asserting access to clean water as a human right.
Jenny Marketou
What about figuring out how to design for the water and its restoration? How do we artists empower ourselves to make living things which create space and habitats for other things to come back into life and cleanse the waterbody?
In this workshop, Jenny Marketou engages with ecological crises, mythological ancestry, and indigenous knowledge and histories in an attempt to propose solutions to ecological issues, to raise awareness, and to re-imagine our relationship to waters in an era of intense climatic and social change. Marketou’s artistic practice is exemplifie.d by her collaboration with scientists, activists, academics, and boat builders as part of The Billion Oyster Project and the Swale Lab on Governors Island in New York, where she lives and works. Thus, during the workshop Marketou will transmit the knowledge, methods, and techniques she has acquired in her long-term artistic research, enriching and creating new collaborative methods of knowledge and artistic production that respond to the increased needs of asserting access to clean water as a human right.
