Commune /kəˈmjuːn/ Talk #1: Cassie Thornton
12 May 2021, 19:00–20:30 CEST
Registration: http://bit.ly/CommuneTalk12May
Cassie Thornton: The Re-distribution of Personal Risk and the Production of Collective Energy
The world systems that we rely on put us all in unequal amounts of growing danger. We've been taught that our health and stability is our individual responsibility even though we inhabit a world of threats, and still we believe we are a burden when we ask for support. Meanwhile, magic lies all around us, and everyone has the capacity to heal and be healed. How can we use peer to peer health practices to blow through the walls of individualism, distribute personal risk, and produce new energy in the process?
Artist Cassie Thornton, of the Feminist Economics Department (the FED), will discuss The Hologram, a mythoreal collective peer-to-peer health project. In this talk, Thornton will report on learnings taking place "in the field" as The Hologram grows as a transglobal practice alongside the ballooning known-unknowns presented by the death drive of racial capitalism and COVID-19.
The Hologram, based on the understanding that all our crises are connected and everyone is a little sick, is a viral four-person health monitoring and diagnostic system practiced from couches all over the world.
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Commune /kəˈmjuːn/ Talks: Practicing Entanglement
May–July 2021
A series of biweekly talks exploring mutual support, interdependence, collaboration, and emerging modes of communing in contemporary art and design.
All talks will take place in English on Wednesday, from 19:00–20:30 Central European Time. The events are free and publicly accessible on Zoom with pre-registration.
Presented by the Hochschule Düsseldorf, Peter Behrens School of Arts, Communication Design.
Organization and design by the course Commune /kəˈmjuːn/: Practicing Entanglement, Summer 2021: Marie-Ange Angelini Kunze, Camden Barrows, Dagmar Buchenthal, Andreas Schubert, Ahmed Shukur, Ginny Sol W
Professor: Prem Krishnamurthy
Instagram: @commune_talks
