Workshop #4: The Hologram and difficult feelings
Please join us in this workshop session where we are going to talk about the conversation on Palestine. Everyone is welcome!
Everyone is welcome to participate in this final session of our workshop series "THE HOLOGRAM: ONE PART SOCIAL PRACTICE, ONE PART TECHNOLOGY OF REVOLUTION, ONE PART FEMINIST SCIENCE FICTION COME TO LIFE"
This final Hologram session will be open for anyone struggling with the problematic frameworks that diagnose and treat mental illness as an individual problem on a burning planet. We will allow and show curiosity towards difficult feelings and mental challenges in the context of the university and the apocalypse where the university is located. Possible themes might include grief, anxiety, ADHD, depression, overwork, guilt, lack of purpose, or other complaints connected to the experience of living through a very intense political and environmental emergency while being as a student at the University of Copenhagen.
What is possible when we see our feelings as common?
As with all the other sessions of the series, this session will be led by the founder of The Hologram, Berlin-based artist Cassie Thornton. Coffee, tea, and snacks will be provided – come as you are.
About Cassie Thornton
Cassandra Thornton is an artist and activist who makes a “safe space” for the unknown, for disobedience, and for unanticipated collectivity. She uses social practices including institutional critique, insurgent architecture, and “healing modalities” like hypnosis and yoga to find soft spots in the hard surfaces of capitalist life. Cassie has invented a grassroots alternative credit reporting service for the survivors of gentrification, has hypnotized hedge fund managers, has finger-painted with the grime found inside banks, has donated cursed paintings to profiteering bankers, and has taught feminist economics to yogis (and vice versa). Her 2020 book, The Hologram: Feminist, Peer-to-Peer Health for a Post-Pandemic Future, is available from Pluto Press.
About OIKOS
The climate is changing. As a result, human life and how we take care of each other and our world is also changing. The environmental crisis can, consequently, be understood as a crisis of care. The research project “OIKOS. A Cultural Analysis of Care and Crisis in the 21st Century” will investigate the nexus of care and crisis through cultural analysis of works of literature, visual and performance art. By focusing on the care practices of parenting, maintaining, and regenerating, OIKOS shifts the perspective from the existence of a warming planet to human existence.
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