Avamaa, 2008
A series of collaborative workshop with John Grzinich and others. More information here:
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“AVAMAA”
MoKS International Symposium of Art and Ideas “enter the open land” August 18-24, 2008. Mooste, Estonia
Workshop:
“Three ecologies”
Tero Nauha
Félix Guattari proposed for us to develop an ecological thinking, “ecosophy”, in which the sides of physical, mental and socio-political ecologies are thought to become intertwined.
For the starting point of a project in “Avamaa” I suggest to consider the idea of mutation, which was essential for Guattari’s thinking. By and through thinking the mutations we do not only aim to preserve or conserve existing species, but rather create platforms and ecosystems for species yet to come. Here, the artistic processes find new meanings in the society, being processes of creating mutations and synthesizing ecosystems.
I propose to work in a way, where it is possible to combine suggested platform with other workshops. This ecosophical workshop aims to develop as well as recognize existing physical, mental and socio-political ecosystems — and their functions in ordinary life and in the artistic processes. Life in itself has become the main production force, in all fields of life, including art. Thus, the ecosophic approach has become a significant tool in the toolbox to understand such everyday experiences as boredom, cynicism and general automatisms of behavior.
Three ecologies workshop is a platform to study above mentioned issues in each participants’ projects and general work, and in co-productive way develop and sharpen the tools to work in our contemporary ecosystem.
Further reading:
Félix Guattari: “Three ecologies”(Suomeksi), (French)
Franco Bifo Berardi: “Info-Labour and Precarisation”
Paolo Virno: “A Grammar of The Multitude”
Gregory Bateson: “Steps to an ecology of mind”
Ecosophy
