Moving Forest - How Can A Forest Move? AKA the Castle

Moving Forest - How Can A Forest Move? AKA the Castle | @ Furtherfield & SPACE MediaLab

All events are free but space is limited.
Booking essential. Please RSVP to [email protected]


EVENTS

Friday 9 December 2011, 11-4pm. Furtherfield Gallery
Isaac Marrero-Guillamón – The Militant City

Saturday 10 December 2011, 11-4pm. Furtherfield Gallery
Rachel Baker and Kayle Brandon – The Witches and 3-Keys

Monday 12 December 2011, 6-9pm. Furtherfield at SPACE MediaLab

The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination presents:

TREE THOUGHTS: Strategies of artivisme and permaculture, a taster

Date: Friday 09, Saturday 10 and Monday 12 December 2011
Venue: Furtherfield Gallery and SPACE MediaLab

Strategy workshops: How Can A Forest Move?
Part of Moving Forest London2012 development workshops

MORE ABOUT THESE EVENTS

Isaac Marrero-Guillamón – The Militant City

Furtherfield Gallery, McKenzie Pavilion, Finsbury Park, London N4 2NQ
Friday 9 December 2011, 11-4pm

The Olympic mega-event is akin to Rancière’s ‘order of the police’. It regulates what is visible and invisible, sayable and unsayable, thinkable and unthinkable; it distributes individuals and groups in positions of ruler or ruled." Join Isaac Marrero-Guillamón, researcher for The Militant City, in a discussion and workshop on exploring the role of art in relation to the Olympics, its legal architecture, and its elevation to a 'state of exception'. Bring projects, ideas, stories and prepare for battle over the control of language, sign, transmission and public space.
Rachel Baker and Kayle Brandon – The Witches and 3-Keys

Furtherfield Gallery, McKenzie Pavilion, Finsbury Park, London N4 2NQ

Saturday 10 December 2011, 11-4pm

Rachel Baker and Kayle Brandon jointly lead this day of prophecy, prediction and mobilization strategies for mapping the Moving Forest onto the London Olympics; tuning in the camouflaged branches to the contemporary mood of economic chaos and revolt.

Rachel Baker - Witches, Prophecy and Prediction
The story of Macbeth began with a witches' prophecy and ended in murder and revolt. Did the witches predict a future already seen or did they merely plant some well-placed psychological seeds to trigger a self-fulfilling prophecy? In doing so, were they able to influence reality? What prior information did they need to have? Is it the magical, spectral appearance of the witch that lends the prophecy its power, or their insertion into everyday life?

Kayle Brandon- 3-Keys
The three witches' prophecy and their tools and techniques of divination are deployed to make a card game called The 3-Keys. Illuminating insurgent mobilisation strategies, the game will map the key relational powers within the Olympic game, matching/twinning them with the essential Macbeth elemental and physical conditions. Discussion will surround further oracle, divination tools and techniques that enable one's actions to be fated or influenced by these processes.

The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination presents:
TREE THOUGHTS: Strategies of artivisme and permaculture, a taster

Furtherfield at SPACE MediaLab
129—131 Mare Street, London E8 3RH, 020 8525 4330
Monday 12 December 2011, 6-9pm

This workshop is a taster to methodologies that merge ecological design models of Permaculture with forms of creative resistance. Permaculture mimics the patterns of living systems and applies them to human designs, these whole system thinking tools will be applied to strategies for developing creative actions. The workshop is suitable for artists and activists of all sorts and with any kind of experience and aims to give a feel of how it might be to "think like a forest".