We are "nature" defending itself: Entangling art, activism and autonomous zones
Featured Speakers
Isabelle Fremeaux & Jay Jordan
The film streamed during this event is available to watch directly HERE.
"We need stories of victory! We need stories of transfomative imagination and wild adventures that somehow succeed against all odds. Jay and Isabelle, as always, think about organizing and activism like nobody else. They’ve given us more than an account–they’ve created a new myth that has the added benefit of being true.” Starhawk
How do we radically transform art, activism and everyday life in the midst of the horrors of the Capitalocene? These are questions we wrestle with often, and they are the core of a new pamphlet by by artists activists Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan, from the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination.
We are "nature" defending itself is their version of the incredible story of the zad (Zone à Défendre - Zone to Defend), their home since 2016 in Brittany.
These 4000 acres of of wetlands, farmland and forest were due to be destroyed for a new international airport, but in 2018 after 40 years of struggle the infernal infrastructure was defeated… But this was not the end of the adventure…
Isabelle and Jay will be touring the UK during COP26 to tell stories of the creative direct action that merged with building revolutionary commoning against the airport and its world, bringing farmers and activists together, including designing rituals disguised as demonstrations, planting gardens on runways, occupying a bridge with 500 tractors, 1000 bikes and 20000 people and building a working lighthouse on the site where they wanted to build the airport control tower.
We Are 'Nature' Defending Itself: Entangling art, activism and autonomous zones entangles these stories with reflections on how to intergrate art, activism and everydaylife and asks how can we become the territory ?
As JJ and Ise so aptly put it 'whilst the 200 heads of state meet up at COP26 in Glasgow we will turn our backs on those that are pretending to turn around the storm with the same logic that caused it and hang out at the lighthouse with y'all !!' - we hope you'll join us!
IMPORTANT COVID NOTE: The following will be required for in person attendance: lateral flow tests in advance, social distancing and masks worn throughout the event. Seating will be very limited as we try to keep everyone as safe as possible, but you can always watch online too :D
