Driving the Human Festival: CONCLUSION Main moderation of the festival: Barbara Kiolbassa & Julien McHardy. »What Is, Then, Urgent? How Can Driving the Human Do Something About It?« Jan Boelen, Freo Majer, Martina Schraudner and Peter Weibel The Heads of the four initiating partner institutions of the »Driving the Human« project sum up the insights and impulses of the festival program and talk about how the raised and discussed questions can impact the further development of the project. Music and visuals by Alba G. Corral and Tutu (Due to legal reasons, this contribution was not recorded.)
Driving the Human Festival: Jonas Staal and Jan Fermon, »Collectivizing Facebook « Project presentation by Jonas Staal »Stateless Parliaments«, »Utopian Training Camps« and »Collectivizing Facebook« with a video message from Jan Fermon. »Collectivize Facebook« engages the space of art as one of collective legal action and speculation. Jonas Staal and Jan Fermon invite the public to join a lawsuit, but also aims to mobilize the imagination when it comes to reclaiming and governing Facebook – as well as other multinational corporations – as common ownership.
Driving the Human Festival: Vivien Tauchmann, »Self-As-Other-Training: Household « A participative performance by Vivien Tauchmann. Vivien Tauchmann produced five »Self-As-Other-Trainings« that were shown throughout the festival. The »Self-As-Other-Trainings« address the necessity of educating our bodies through the de-contextualisation of these silent exclusions and the active embodiment of the ‘other’ in choreographed storylines, in order to evoke critical self-reflection and eventually provoke behavioral change. The work seeks to demonstrate that empathy is not only a rational capability, but also a physical state of mind through which we can reshape our connections to people beyond our known scope.
Driving the Human Festival: Lili Carr and Feifei Zhou, »Feral Atlas«
Project presentation of the experimental publication »Feral Atlas«. »The More-Than-Human Anthropocene« by the Feral Atlas Collective represented by Lili Carr and Feifei Zhou.
Driving the Human Festival: Panel discussion ACCESS
Panel discussion with Claudia Chwalisz and Sasha Costanza-Chock, moderated by Vera Sacchetti.
Driving the Human Festival: Jonas Staal and Jan Fermon, Collectivizing Facebook Project presentation by Jonas Staal »Stateless Parliaments«, »Utopian Training Camps« and »Collectivizing Facebook« with a video message from Jan Fermon. Driving the Human Festival: Vivien Tauchmann, »Self-As-Other-Training: Household« A participative performance by Vivien Tauchmann.
Driving the Human Festival: Lili Carr and Feifei Zhou, »Feral Atlas«
Project presentation of the experimental publication »Feral Atlas«. »
The More-Than-Human Anthropocene« by the Feral Atlas Collective represented by Lili Carr and Feifei Zhou.
The collective project »Feral Atlas« invites you to explore the ecological worlds created when nonhuman entities become tangled up with human infrastructure projects. More than seventy field reports from scientists, humanists, and artists show how to recognize »feral« ecologies, that is, ecologies that have been encouraged by human-built infrastructures, but which have developed and spread beyond human control. These infrastructural effects, »Feral Atlas« argues, are the Anthropocene.
Driving the Human Festival: Panel discussion ACCESS
Panel discussion with Claudia Chwalisz (author, leads the OECD’s work on innovative citizen participation) and Sasha Costanza-Chock (researcher, designer, activist), moderated by Vera Sacchetti
The panelists discuss different participation practices. Sasha Costanza-Chock describes how they are working in the field of design justice following the matrix of domination, a conceptual model that challenges dominant and unequal structures. Claudia Chwalisz brings up applied methods of participation which are being institutionalized in everyday politics and other areas of public life.
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Project website: https://drivingthehuman.com/ —
