///////////////////////////////////////// Nanopolitics: experiments in radical movement /////////////////////////////////////////
A series of open workshops The Nanopolitics experiments set out to explore the relationships between the experiences and conditions of today’s forms of life and work and the potential for political action that emerges in this nexus. A series of workshops to be held in 2010 will take relational techniques from the fields of somatics and performance as their starting points to investigate the ways in which our bodies and modes of interrelation are affected by an increasing influence of management techniques on our practices. Each taking a different relational technique as point of departure, these sessions will be hosted by guests and bring together people who share an interest in the ways in which we can frame a radical politics around mutual care and creative engagement. - How do policy and professionalisation affect our daily lives and bodies? - How can we take illness and alienation as starting points from which to re-investigate social movements and their interrelations with practices of care and creativity? The aim of these encounters is to forge exchanges and alliances between people who find themselves facing the pathologies of contemporary forms of employment and to establish a space from which to collectively reflect and take action on the issues that arise. Anyone is welcome - from teachers to carers, knowledge and creative workers, third sector and service workers, political activists and so on. The series is intended to provide a starting point for a continuous and transversal London-based group process. ///////////////////////////////////////// SESSION 1: CONTACT FOR RADICALS facilitated by Uli Meyerhoff and Daniel Mang ///////////////////////////////////////// January 23rd and 24th 2010, 11am-5pm pre-meeting on January 22nd, 7-9pm Mile End, London ‘Contact for radicals’ is a project interested in body politics and the relationship between political work and personal change. Contact Improvisation is a useful tool for investigating issues of body politics. At the basis of this practice lies movement, the physical contact between two or more partners, the relation to gravity, and to the momentum of moving bodies. It is about letting go of excess tension, waking up the reflexes and sense of balance, and working with weight. It is a very subtle way of interacting and negotiating through touch and movement. To register for this session, send an email to [email protected] There are limited spaces, please register by December 16th. Participants are required to attend both days, 23rd and 24th January 2010 (Saturday and Sunday). All welcome, no previous experience of Contact Improvisation is required. Further planned workshops in 2010: SOMA – http://lambethbandofsolidarity.wordpress.com/soma-an-anarchist-experiment/ February 2010, date TBC EXPERIENTIAL ANATOMY AND TONALITIES OF RELATION – Carla Bottiglieri March 2010, date TBC THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_the_Oppressed April 2010, date TBC Nanopolitics is kick-started by researcher-activists based at Queen Mary and Goldsmiths, University of London who hope that an organising collective for future collaborations may evolve in our encounters with one another. Contact: [email protected] Contact for Radicals, SOMA, Experiential Anatomy and Tonalities of Relation, and Theatre of the Oppressed are supported by the School of Business and Management doctoral fund, Queen Mary, University of London. -- Olga P Massanet -------------------------- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational
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