FIELD TRIP: REFORESTING
Roundtable discussion
Tuesday 16.11.2021 at 7pm

Flux Laboratory Athens, in the framework of its support to the experimental project Reforesting, hosts a roundtable discussion with the members of the project on Tuesday 16.11.2021 at 7pm. The audience is invited to sit around a table and participate in a dialogue with the project’s contributors. This Field Trip event is an opportunity to share the intriguing stories behind the project and to dive into the special moments of the Reforesting members’ collective experience.

Reforesting is an interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary research and practice-based project that examines creation as a more symbiographic process, one that centers around moving bodies and their relationship(s) with what has been described as ‘the natural environment’. Reforesting implies a continuous and experimental process that points to other ways of living, sharing, learning, participating in cultural production.

During 2021, the participants coming from different fields and disciplines (dance, choreography, architecture, dramaturgy, ecopsychology-ecotherapy, visual arts etc), formulated the basis of a ‘think/move/dance-tank’ environment within which they collectively explored a more communal way of artistic production, closer to nature and with nature as a partner.

Last August they cohabited a rural house located in Kalentzi, Epirus, a small village on the foothills of Tzoumerka Mountains. There, they deployed their research and practice, while interacting with the natural surroundings. They jointly coordinated a series of communal activities, such as food preparation, hiking, ecotherapy and social dreaming sessions, ‘short-lived’ experimental creative projects, film projections and so on.

Participants: Kleio Apostolaki, Lia Chamilothori Candy Karra, Ionian Bisai & Sotiris Tsiganos (Latent Community), Elena Novakovits, Vasilis Ntouros, Aris Papadopoulos, Christina Reinhardt, Dora Zoumpa

The discussion will be held in Greek.

To reserve a seat, please contact: athens@fluxlaboratory.com

Maximum numbers of attendees: 10 persons

Important note: In accordance with the recently implemented Law, the audience must provide upon entry (a) a vaccination certificate or (b) a recovery certificate from Covid-19 (valid for up to six months).

ABOUT FLUX LABORATORY ATHENS

Flux Laboratory produces transdisciplinary artistic projects and experiments with new creative and collaborative processes. Since 2016, Flux Laboratory supports and produces projects in Greece under the auspices of the Embassy of Switzerland in Greece. The research core of Flux programming in Athens is the Body itself. The Body is being explored as an integral tool of artistic creation, a source of knowledge and experience as well as a dynamic element that underpins the concept of social cohesion and community development.