Das Labor für Glücksforschung. Das Leben nach dem Komfortozän
As part of the accompanying programme to the exhibition „Ideobranie (Idea Field)“ at the Turnus Gallery, summarising the project ‘Happiness Research Laboratory. Life after comfortocene', we invite you to a workshop led by Berit Fischer, one of the knowledge co-producers invited to participate in the first research phase of the project in 2023.
The Radical Empathy Lab (REL) is a nomadic socio-ecological laboratory that explores how new forms of togetherness can foster optimism and hope in times of crises.
It experiments with speculative ways of building mutual support and solidarity to rethink and replace separationist logics. REL contemplates the need for radical transformation towards interconnectedness and relationality as one of the key challenges for a sustainable future and a being with the world.
Inspired by feminist and alternative pedagogies, it encourages holistic knowledge activation that calls to reflect and reconnect with one’s senses and entanglements with (each)Other. REL invites its participants to playfully engage in an affective encounter around the notion of mutuality and support as central to shaping new ways of being together for a more interconnected and resilient future.
Berit Fischer (PhD) is a transdisciplinary cultural practitioner: a curator, artist, researcher, writer and editor. She has been working internationally since 1999 and works from Berlin, Germany. Her research interests include experiential knowledge formation, civic engaging, embodied and listening practices, feminist- and eco-pedagogies, and critical spatial practices. Her practice often unfolds in forms of affective encounter and relational learning that strives to activate agency and an active micropolitics, fields of action and spaces for critical consciousness raising and engagement. In 2016 she founded the Radical Empathy Lab, an on-going nomadic laboratory for ecological, alternative and holistic knowledge production. She is the founder and curator of the (Re-)Gaining Ecological Futures festival at the Floating University, Berlin. Furthermore, she is the co-founder of the International Forum for Eco-Embodied Arts and the performative artist collective detours.
No prior knowledge necessary. Open to all bodies from age 15. Come in comfortable clothes and with an open mind.
Please register
here with a sentence or two why you’d like to participate. Limited number of participants. First come, first serve.
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