Thursday 25th of January (17:30-19:30)
Book presentation at Fort van Sjakoo: We are ‘Nature’ defending itself (2021).
On Thursday, January 25, Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan will give a book presentation from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM (entry from 5:00 PM). The book tells the successful story of 'the zad’ in Notre-Dame-des-Landes.
Location: Fort van Sjakoo, Jodenbreestraat 24,1011 NK Amsterdam
Friday 26th of January (19:00-21:00)
Lecture: The joy of Making Trouble. Entangling Art, Activism and everyday life in the face of the Capitalocene
Location: AHK Culture Club (Kattenburgerstraat 5, building 027 K), https://marineterrein.nl/collectief/ahk-culture-club-2/
The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination is infamous for launching a rebel raft regatta to shut down a coal fired power station, turning bikes into machines of disobedience and refusing to be censored by the BP sponsored Tate gallery. They now inhabit the zad of Notre-Dame-des-Landes, 'a territory lost to the republic,' according to the French government, where an airport project was abandoned after a 40 years of struggle. In this presentation, they will take us on a journey exploring how art is an invention and why we should find creative ways to resist, through stories and examples from their own practice as well as those of comrades the world over.
Saturday 27th of January (09:30-17:00) (fully booked)
Workshop: Cre(a)ction: between art and activism
Location: Buurthuis de Bol (Zilverberg 68B, 1025 CJ Amsterdam)
Snacks + lunch provided
Sign up: https://forms.gle/14X8UYejcLvu21Eq9(participation is free)
Workshop "cre(a)ction: between art and activism”
Faced with the urgency of the social and ecological crises, it is clear that everything has to be transformed, and quick. This includes the way we make art and the way we struggle for better worlds. The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination’s (Labofii) workshop explores how we can escape the old forms and rituals of protest to find a space in-between art and activism, where the poetic and the pragmatic fuse into successful moments of rebellion. A space for those who define themselves as artists, activists or neither.
