ON MOBILISATION | International Symposium

Supported and co-financed by the European Union, On Mobilisation is an international cooperation project uniting a network of 3 partners and 6 artists. From April 2023 and over a period of 3 years, wpZimmer (as lead partner), Baltic Art Centre, Studio ALTA, Lavanderia a Vapore, ARIA and GRASS – together with Kalle Brolin, Elisabetta Consonni, Daniele Ninarello, Ahilan Ratnamohan, Marika Smreková and Danae Theodoridou – will explore the theme of ethical, poetic and political mobilisation through artistic practices and collective works. A softly guided journey that will attempt, in a peer-to-peer dynamic, to contribute to the ongoing social demand for equality, equity and empowerment.

The International Symposium is a moment of convergence of visions and experiences related to the theme of mobilisation and protest: how can we make revolution irresistible? How can awakening our desires and dreams subvert the status quo and originate a different present?

The Symposium encompasses different formats, talks, workshops and experiences, offering itself as a training ground for generating change through artistic practices that, in their exceptionality, are interferences in the political scenario and generators of change. Over the course of the three days, a short dramaturgical curve unfolds, which, from the awakening and re-emergence of the body from the dynamics of control and anaesthesia, moves us to the discovery of the dream as an apparently unproductive zone generating new visions that sweep away the imagination’s monopoly of the present paradigm as the only possible world. Valuing the radical imagination and its tactics helps us to formulate desires for change, making us rediscover the collective dimension of action capable of giving substance to the visions that emerge.

All events are free and take place at Lavanderia a Vapore

Full program here