In times of climate and social emergency, the challenges we are facing are complex and systemic. They require new ways of doing, thinking, and learning. Through artistic co-creation dispositifs, I search, as a political response to the current crises, to equip transdisciplinarity, to recall the links between individuals, humans and non-humans, collectives and the environment, as well as to question the different forms of knowledge sharing.In the projects that I have experienced and that are full of potential for change and action, there is often art, science, theory and activism intermingled and feeding each other to form transdisciplinary artistic laboratories. These, I reckon, are key elements to build new worlds, but they are also challenging to work with. In order to respond to my urge to act and help those projects, I want to combine my previous studies in environmental and systemic engineering with the powerful critical practices and gestures of art.I intend to create hybrid, living, accessible, fun, useful, artistic, processual, collective and individual tools to help those projects that wish to work with elements such as "transdisciplinarity", "activism", "local", "theory+practice", "co-creation", "inclusivity", "relational practices", "process-oriented approach", "queer ecologies", and the like.
To accomplish this quest, I plan to conduct a sensitive and material research around these artistic laboratories:
What are the needs of these projects to actually make real "transdisciplinarity", "co-creation" etc…? Material, methodological, theoretical, emotional needs?
What could it be like, a hybrid and living protocol, frame, score — a structure open enough to guide the co-construction where each need would be heard and respond accordingly, constructing with them useful growth tools?
How to collaboratively conceive useful, inclusive and fun tools to support their processes?
For this year of work with SoC I plan to carry on the first phase of the project: conduct a survey with different projects to map out their needs and limitations, build several protocols to be tested in practice, and constantly formulate questions that can feedback the process. I want to be in dialogue with the SoC projects that would like to participate in the survey and find artistic, accessible, engaging and useful ways to share those results and processes depending on the material obtained and the potential collaboration formed.ShareRewrite
