Date : 31 October 2020

Time : 20.00

Location : Veem House

Guided by : Paula Chaves

Guests : Hodan Warsame, Zwoisy Mears-Clarke, Teresa Borasino

Made possible by : The Life Long Burning Network supported by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union

In the Long Now Lab a small group of people gather regularly for performances and work-and-think sessions at Veem House for Performance. We invite participants to go deeper: through conversation, imagination and workshops, with the aim of collectively creating ideas and proposals. Long Now refers to long-term thinking and the awareness that the present is part of the future. We create a laboratory where we can work and experiment together, where we can put ideas and proposals into practice. 

‘Movement’ in its different connotations -from dance to social movements- will be our common thread throughout the sessions. Zooming in and out from the micro to the macro spheres we will have sessions on the relationship between class and dance, intersectional and body politics, social and climate justice and reparations.

 Some questions we will investigate during the Long Now Lab #3 are: 

What does it mean to politicize our gaze both as individuals, part of a society and as artists, cultural workers, curators responsible for cultural production?

How can we protect our visions and movements from the subsuming social media trends that commodify and neutralise our fight for social justice? 

What are the gaps between aesthetics and ethics in a visually oriented society that tends towards shock culture? 

source : https://veem.house/?ATTACHMENT_ID=3966/call-for-participants-or-long-now-lab-3-art-and-activism