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Subjective Mapping? Oh, yes!

Yeah, 2017 starts well! Our project "Subjective Mapping" was approved by Erasmus+ and it will take place in France later this year! Just to tease you a bit... :P “Subjective Mapping” will invite 24 artists, educators and social workers to discover, represent, explore and learn from the emotional layer of our perception of space. The training in rural France will give participants the unique opportunity to experience and explore subjective mapping as a tool that they can later on use for community development.

The application will be soon open, so stay tuned. Here is more info about the project.

What is subjective mapping?

Maps hold unparalleled storytelling power. A map, unlike a photographic sketch, looks like the way we think. Cognitive science nowadays insists on the ability of our minds to create mental maps before we take snapshots, storing information and space representation in a schematic form. We only need a few lines, relations between elements, some dots marking important points – for a whole story of experiences to come alive in our imagination. The most wonderful appeal of maps, perhaps, is that it stores and expresses our emotions into minimalistic shapes. We want to explore the beautiful subjectivity of maps as a tool for intercultural understanding, inclusion and active participation, especially related to migration.

Installations, sculpture and collage

Artist Shannon Rankin does a brilliant work on this. She uses “the language of maps to explore the connections among geological and biological processes, patterns in nature, geometry and anatomy”. The subjective mapping is very much about the way you feel about a place or a journey. It tells a story and the story can be visualized in many ways.

She creates installations, collages and sculptures that use the language of maps to explore the connections among geological and biological processes, patterns in nature, geometry and anatomy. Using a variety of distinct styles she cuts, scores, wrinkles, layers, folds, paints and pins maps to produce revised versions that often become more like the terrains they represent. These new geographies explore notions of place, perception and experience, suggesting the potential for a broader landscape and inviting viewers to examine their relationships with each other and the world we share.

Image: “Pod” by Shannon Rankin, 2009

Drawing and typography

Stephen Walter has drawn gigantic maps of London and Liverpool in a sort of report of Situationist drifts (derives) experiencing the psychogeographies of those two cities. His maps are mostly constituted by doodles and words that places various neighborhoods and its characteristics but also his autobiographical feeling about those places when he went there. Space’s representation and narratives are then completely colliding in one document and make S. Walter’s maps fascinating!

Image: Stephen Walker “Hub”, 2007-10

Mira Rojanasakul is questioning borders with her pen and ink. She writes “Herds, flocks, dots must abide not only to the limitations produced by natural geographies, but also the borders invented by man -- regardless of how "imaginary" they are. Suggested movements and these populations' relationship to their surroundings are intended to depict a silent resistance carried out unknowingly, simply because they have been programmed throughout the generations to move as they must to survive - whether the journeys end at better feeding grounds and survivable climates, or freer nations with better wages. There's a beauty in the numbers - each "speck" incapable of seeing or knowing what our false birds eye view of the world offers.”

Image: subjective cartography by Mira Rojanasakul.

Photographic Maps

Sohei Nishino is using photographs to compose his maps from aerial views by assembling pictures together despite their different vanishing points. He chose some very generic photographs from main monuments of each city to make the map more recognizable but one could imagine his work with an approach more similar to Stephen Walter’s that would assemble pieces of life brought together with personal pictures that would eventually constitutes the city.

Amazing - just look at the details on his website here!

Image: Sohei Nishino “Bern” 2012

"Mapping Manhattan”

How about collecting the subjective perceptions of a super famous place? Artist Becky Cooper did just that!

She was on a mission to explore Manhattan through an ongoing collaborative art project that began in an appropriately personal manner: Cooper became an accidental cartographer when she was hired to help map all of Manhattan’s public art. As she learned about mapping and obsessively colourcoded the locations, she considered what it took to make “a map that told an honest story of a place” and was faced with the inevitable subjectivity of the endeavor, realizing that an assemblage of many little subjective portraits revealed more about a place than any attempt at a “complete” map. 

And so the idea was born: to assemble a collaborative portrait of the city based on numerous individual experiences, memories, and subjective impressions. She painstakingly hand-printed a few hundred schematic maps of Manhattan on the letterpress in the basement of her college dorm, then walked all over the island, handing them to strangers and asking them to draw “their Manhattan,” then mail the maps back to her, which, in a heartening antidote to Gotham’s rumored curmudgeonly cynicism, they readily did. Dozens of intimate narratives soon filled her inbox: first loves, last goodbyes, childhood favorites, unexpected delights. In short, lives lived. 

This helped her constitute a tender cartographic love letter to this timeless city of multiple dimensions, parallel realities, and perpendicular views, featuring contributions from both strangers and famous New Yorkers alike.

Image: examples of subjective maps of Manhattan, NYC - “Mapping Manhattan” by Becky Cooper

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Do you want to create something like this? Applications for “Subjective Mapping” in France will open soon. Keep an eye ;-)

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5 awesome examples of social art to inspire you to be creative in 2017

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We were looking around the Internet for some amazing collection of 2016′s best social art inspirations and campaigns. It was quite astonishing that we really couldn’t find an article about that, but we were seeing many awesome social art ideas and creations through the year! So, we created a quick and lovely list on our own. Here is it!

City Shadows - exhibitions and performances in abandoned buildings of Port Said, Egypt

This amazing project is powered by our partners and friends at Mahatat who helped us realizing Circ'Us last October! Beautiful work, watch here:

The Black Protest in Poland

Do you remember Kasia Babis? It was not once that she got viral with her social art posters on important gender problems in Poland. She wrote under her poster:

“The Polish parliament has decided to proceed with a bill that directly attacks women by banning abortion with no exceptions, as well as criminalizing both abortion procedures and miscarriages. A wave of protest has broken out in Poland, and is branded with the hashtag#blackprotest (#czarnyprotest) to express our rage and dissent.”

Creating juggling balls for social circus refugee students

Our friends at the art school for refugee kids Sirkhane in Mardin work every day on different and exciting art projects with their amazing students. Earlier this year we published a short tutorial how to make juggling balls.

They also did many social art campaigns this year. A great example is their Flying Library, see here.

Storytelling - the refugee athletes who went at the Olympics

In 2016 for the first time a team of refugees competed under the Olympic flag. Here is a lovely article with their really amazing stories, if you have missed them.

Women reshaping art

“From protest graffiti in Cairo to a floating peep show on the San Francisco Bay, these 12 women are throwing out the status quo with their boundary-pushing work.” Meet them here.

And there is more!

Do you have a great social art cause to add to this list? We would love to see!

Share it with us :)

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New Year, New Project Calls!

The welcoming of 2017 is a great time to list all of our project ideas that are looking for amazing people to join the party!

We are planning to design and apply with the following projects, so if you and your organisation are interested in the topic and wish to join us, please, do so.

Nomadways team was recently strongly inspired by the method of “digital storytelling” and other artistic methods as usual, so we were  thinking that it is about time to design a project where we can explore the opportunity to use it to empower refugees to share their stories!

Be our partner, apply here. (or read more about the project here)

In “Expeditions” we will meet and develop learning programmes by undertaking journeys!

Would you like to take part as our partner? Fill in this form. 

If you want to read more about the project, see here.

If you have already followed us online, you must have seen how awesome Circ’Us in Egypt was! 10 days of creative residency with workshops and trainings; and 10 days of touring around Egypt, animating social circus workshops for children! We want to make it again, this time in Germany!

Want to join as a partner? Fill in the application form here! 

Read more about the project here.

We will design a Circ’Us project for France as well. Read the full description here, or simply apply to become a partner by filling in the application form here.

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2016 for Nomadways? Oh, what a year!

Hello dear beautifools! 2016 is over and it was such a crazy year - despite all controversy of it, we did our best to create good social art and educational projects, so we can make the world better. 

It is time to look at it and see what we managed to achieve, with you and your help on the way. Soooo... we are truly excited to show you in our way - the visual way! .....drumrolls...

Take a look of our our numbers this year!

We were lucky enough to create 6 projects this year. They included 12 meetings and 87 days of activities! During them there were 20 artistic creations - movies, performances and booklets. Oh yeah!

We are sooo happy that we worked with 77 new people! And all of the projects reached out more than 6000 guys! 

Looking at our map, it feels soooo great that we managed to get in touch with people from many countries. Our team travelled 20 countries this year - in Europe, Asia, South and North America. And we worked with partners from 30 countries. Go, Nomadways team!

We got our hands on our internet presence as well. In April we started sending monthly news to our friends and partners and since then we released 14 letters. Curious? Look at our archives here. 

Nomadways is now active on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, too. So, if you want to keep en eye on our work and opportunities to work with us, follow us around. 

What about us? Here is 2016 in pictures - some of the best moments at projects and meetings here and there:

What are your wishes for the new year? Tell us :)

See you in 2017!

Love,

Nomadways team

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Ulalaaaa, 2016 is almost gone and we just realized that we sent our first newsletters this year. That’s why we’ve decided to make this archive with our previous letters in case you want to check them out:

November, 2016 

October, 2016 

September, 2016

August, 2016 

July, 2016 

June, 2016 

May, 2016 

April, 2016 

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3 great causes to support this Christmas - donate to help children living at war

Millions of children live at war for many, many years. They are born there, they grow up there and in their lives, they do not see any of the amazing opportunities life can offer!

The Western world somehow manages to go on living with it, but people who run organisations like MMCC and Her Yerde Sanat (Art Anywhere) cannot do it. Together with our friends, we know that if we do nothing, things will not get better - after all, it always, always depends on the people. History proves it.

Looking at what’s happening in the crazy world nowadays, do you feel like helping the people who are working at the field - in the war zones or in the refugee camps? If the answer is yes, here are Nomadways’ causes that need your help this Christmas. We believe this would be the greatest gift you could give this year!

Help MMCC build a new circus center for the children in Kabul, Afghanistan

Our dear friends run this art and circus school for kids in Afghanistan for more than 15 years! They helped millions of children during the years to learn social circus, empowered them with hope, joy and bright look at the world and life. Now they need our help, because they had to move the center to another place and at the moment they are building the new venue.

Donate here.

(and learn more about MMCC and Afghan Circus here)

Support the art and circus school Sirkhane in Mardin, Turkey

Her Yerde Sanat team runs this amazing school for children who live and grow in the refugee camp near Mardin, Turkey. These kids are simply awesome - energetic, excited about art and really love their touch to social circus and performing arts. As you probably know, by giving children the opportunity to practice arts you give them the unique chance to explore themselves, earn confidence and tools to overcome trauma. Sirkhane works with volunteers - trainers who come from different parts of the world and teach art. Therefore, our help is needed to maintain the venue and the whole organisational process. If you wish to help them, you can!

Donate here.

(find out more about Her Yerde Sanat and their work here)

Help Nomadways build our dream space

We work closely with our partners ( such as Her Yerde Sanat and MMCC) to organise projects like Circ’Us - social circus opportunities for children at risk. Therefore, we now really need a space where can bring together trainers and youth to develop these ideas further and further. So far we were visiting different cities to do so, but we dream of building our own fun house this year!

If you wish to help us: Donate here.

(visit our website here)

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Partner call: Refugees Boost Talent

Nomadways team was recently strongly inspired by the method of “digital storytelling” and other artistic methods as usual, so we were  thinking that it is about time to design a project where we can explore the opportunity to use it to empower refugees to share their stories!

Would you like to be a partner of such project? Yes? Awesome, fill in the application form here.

What is the role of the partner?

+ To join our dissemination plan and help us spread the word of the project before, during and after the activities.

+ To spread the participants call and help us form an amazing team.

+ As a partner, you can invite 1 participant from your organisation to the activities; can propose more participants and will join a super awesome project as a partner, being quoted everywhere!

Let’s build a long lasting partnership starting with “Refugees Boost Talent”!

More information about the project:

Refugees Boost Talent

Germany

1-10 February 2018 (dates to be confirmed in January)

to apply fill in the application form here: http://bit.ly/refugeetalent-partnerform

if you have any questions, contact rawan@nomadways.eu

In the summer of 2015, Europe experienced the highest influx of refugees and displaced population since the Second World War. Over 4 million people have fled from Syria. Nearly half of them seek asylum in Europe, more 60% in Germany. By accepting them into our countries and integrating them into our societies, we have much to gain.

Referring to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 12 (1998), which signifies it is the right of children to express views freely 'in all matters affecting' them and to have them taken seriously, along with other rights such as freedom of expression, religion, and the right to privacy. Many of these young refugees have experienced conflict and suffered trauma; their resettlement experience is often coupled with a number of barriers including poverty, poor housing, low language skills, discrimination, social isolation, complicated appeals procedures, and difficulties accessing mainstream services. As studies have proved the contribution of the arts activities to the mental and physical health of the participants, suggesting that the incorporation of such activities into an organisation’s engagement activities improves both key skills and overall wellbeing. Therefore, the interest of developing strategic policies for arts-based practices working with refugees and asylum seekers increased.

Refugees Boost Talent is a jointly activity project to create a bigger impact on empowering and raising the voice of refugees in Europe and to give them the possibilities to share their stories, using the innovative tool of digital storytelling. The activity is designed for youth workers having experience and interest in working with young refugees.

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Partner call: Expeditions

We are preparing another project application for the next Erasmus+ deadline. In “Expeditions” we will meet and develop learning programmes by undertaking journeys!

Would you like to take part as our partner? Fill in this form.

What is the role of the partner?

To join our dissemination plan and help us spread the word of the project before, during and after the activities.

To spread the participants call and help us form an amazing team.

As a partner, you can invite 1 participant from your organisation to the activities; can propose more participants and will join a super awesome project as a partner, being quoted everywhere!

Let’s build a long lasting partnership starting with “Expeditions”!

More info about the project:

EXPEDITIONS

France & Portugal

April and May 2018 (dates to be confirmed in January)

to apply, fill in the form here: [http://bit.ly/expeditions-partnerform]

if you have questions, contact karolina@nomadways.eu

“Expeditions” aims at empowering youth workers to develop methods for creation of learning programs to engage and motivate young people to deal with their surrounding natural living rural or/and urban environment on mental, social and physical levels and use these environment as fields to explore and express their creativity. The final goal is to help young people to increase their participation in the use and definition of their public spaces and to encourage them to be physically engaged in their environment.

Specific learning programs are to be developed during this project as “Expeditions” meaning a journey undertaken by a group of people with a particular purpose, especially that of exploration, research, or development through creativity to reach educational goals.

Thus the aim of this project is to develop capacities of educational organisations in acquiring skills that would empower youth workers to provide possibilities for young people to take part in such learning programmes that involve elements and context of their immediate living and working environments.

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Partner Call: Circ’Us FR

If you have already followed us online, you must have seen how awesome Circ’Us in Egypt was! 10 days of creative residency with workshops and trainings; and 10 days of touring around Egypt, animating social circus workshops for children! We want to make it again, this time in France!

Want to join as a partner? Fill in the application form here!

What is the role of the partner?

To join our dissemination plan and help us spread the word of the project before, during and after the activities.

To spread the participants call and help us form an amazing team.

As a partner, you can invite 1 participant from your organisation to the activities; can propose more participants and will join a super awesome project as a partner, being quoted everywhere!

Let’s build a long lasting partnership starting with “Circ’Us” France!

More info about the project:

CIRC’US FR

France

15 July-5 August 2017 (dates to be confirmed in January)

Fill in the application form here: [http://bit.ly/circusfr-partnerform]

if you have questions, contact anne@nomadways.eu

Social circus is a citizen action method using circus arts as tools for intervention and education. Social circus activities benefit their participants by encouraging the development of self-confidence, self-esteem, cooperation, trust, mutual support and active participation. Learning circus techniques are not an end in itself: social circus aims above all at the personal and social development of its beneficiaries and their communities.

We want to create an opportunity for social workers and circus artists from Europe and Mediterranean countries to meet, exchange and create a show together and tour around the South-East of France to present their show in rural areas, animating workshops in migrants communities, creating and performing circus shows together with local children.

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What is “Digital Storytelling”?

“When I heard it for the first time, I thought it was some kind of filmmaking. Then I went to a training and it appeared to be something completely different!” - Alex, Nomadways

So, what is it about?

“Once upon a time we sat around the fire and told each other stories, now young and old we can do it with computers. We call this Digital Storytelling.” - Daniel Meadows, BBC project Capturing Wales.

We had the pleasure to be a partner of a training course that was organised by International Center for Intercultural Research, Learning and Dialogue in Armenia. Together with Digital Storylab (Denmark) they showed us how to use the method in the context of intercultural dialogue and all participants created their own digital story, from the scratch!

That included tons of fears (what story should I tell?!), technical problems (yes, my computer got completely exhausted and stopped working after hours of video editing...), but the result was far more than satisfying!

Digital storytelling is a wonderful tool to tell people’s stories and share them everywhere. A great example is this video called “Falses” that faces a common problem in mother-daughter relationships, but you can apply it to any matter. 

Want to know more about digital storytelling? Check out this brochure by Digital Storylab and keep an eye on our participant/partner calls - we might join or design more projects like this! Yeah!

(Alex’s character developing for her digital story - sketch)

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Look at those faces: this is a brand new batch of recently graduated graphic facilitators! :D

What you see on this picture is the amazing group at Facilitarium2, that took place in Worcester earlier in September - from our team, Alex took part this time. It was organized by Consilium Development and Training and facilitated by the awesome trainers and graphic facilitators Deniss Jershov and Torben Grocholl.

The workshop was simply amazing: besides the number of creative exercises on drawing, deconstructing, storytelling, observing, etc. we also went through the basics of graphic facilitation and made our own graphic inputs!

What’s next? To apply all of the amazing ideas and tools to our work! Let’s do this!

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So happy! We were preparing for Circ'Us for quite some time and now it's happening! Yes, it is!

What does that mean? That #Egypt is all in social circus now iuuupiiiuhu!!!

Circ'Us consists of two main parts:

1/ CREATIVE RESIDENCY 29 September - 8 October Visit the event here

During the residency 20 amazing performing artists coming from France, Germany and Egypt will join forces to prepare and animate circus workshops for children. It will be simply unique cooperation between cultures and different experience and we cannot wait to see the result!

and then:

2/ THE CIRC'US TOUR 8-18 October Visit the official event here

Mixing acrobats, street theater, aerials, juggling and live music, CIRC’US brings these 20 will put up a show that will tour from the 8th until the 18th of October, passing through 10 different cities. In each city, the artists will animate workshops for children and teenagers before the show.

Entrance and participation to all activities is free and open to all!!!

Keep an eye here, too - we will share lovely updates!

w/ Goethe-Institut Kairo, محطات للفن المعاصر Mahatat for contemporary art, Institut Français d'Egypte & Vuesch e.V. - Verein zur Überwindung der Schwerkraft

#socialcircus #NOMADWAYSprojects #circustour #tour #show #performance #happy #children #kids #street #art #poster #design #artwork

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#MoveMovie: The Movies! The Creations!

“I Move, You Move, Everybody Moves for Movies” was a remarkable experience for Nomadways team and, we would like to believe, for our amazing participants too. It was emotional, experimental, full of learning, full of art and creativity… Important issues were discussed and represented in our creations as we were not able to stay blind to the events happening in the world while the project took place. 

In 20 days, 20 amazing artists did together an anthropological experience where they explored the village in search for its raw beauty and peculiarities. We wanted to show the locals how amazing their natural habitat is and its hidden value. We wanted to address the main challenges of the local life - the distance of the city, the less opportunities young people have in those rural areas and the depopulation issue. 

The result was: 6 short films, 1 photography portrait and 1 booklet that uncovers the secrets of MoveMovie.

(Editorial notes by Miguel Stichini, Anne Merlin and Karolina Ufa)

The project

"A year. How can one measure the changes in the world in a year? If we take a step back, distance ourselves from this project, it might seem quite pretentious of us to be developing a project about rurality, when outside the world is falling apart. However a little bite more than year ago we were far away to even consider that we would be living within the spoils of one of the most absurd social crisis of the Human history, brought to us by fear and ignorance. Prejudice and discrimination have long been around the table as our guests, unfortunately. This paradigm was never taken to a high level of absurdity where those guests would possess such power, but if we take into consideration the more recent events such has the suspension of the European Human Rights Convention by the Turkish government, one starts to believe that maybe that same power is bigger that we were dreaming of or at least we wanted to believe, since we live in a global society connected technologically. 

Rurality, as a counterpoint to that idea, of a global society, was a hot topic back then. It has been for so long. The lack of opportunities for young people in rural areas all over Europe (not to say the world) need to be tackled addressed and somehow prioritised. The youngsters are somewhat the future; at least we like to believe so. Society decided to centralise everything in the big metropolitan centres, obliging just like this people to migrate. Small towns became ghostly and small villages started to disappear with time. The few who can’t a ord to move start to develop a deep hatred towards their surroundings instead of trying to take advantages of the richness of it.” - Miguel Stichini 

"Arts humanize us – by creating or interaction with artworks, we feel and think things that would not otherwise come to our attention. We believe that art has the potential for transformation and change: it elicits that most sophisticated and necessary of human emotions: empathy. Arts, culture and cultural heritage therefore have a huge potential to inspire people’s personal and social development in many ways. Creative activities are a powerful tool that can help participants discover their inner potential and increase their level of self-awareness.” - Anne Merlin 

The place and the people

"Who would think that a group of twenty artists, pedagogues and theorists would go to Bernay-en-Ponthieu and exile themselves from twenty days? One cannot really consi- der this movement as exile, since we had quite good conditions, though one needs to acknowledge that we try to put ourselves in the local youngsters shoes, and after a while went nuts. We were able to distance ourselves and take advantage of the surroundings merely because we knew we wouldn’t stay there forever.” - Miguel Stichini The artists

Aleksandra Miciak, Henry Linnard, Karolina Ufa, Lilit Stepanyan, Sona Parsyan, Anne Merlin (find out more), Carolina Gomes-TeixeiraHenri OtsingKatarzyna Lukasiewicz (find out more), Katrin Kullo, Laura Gonçalo, Luis Vieira, Melanie Garland (find out more), Miguel Stichini, Monica Talina, Monika Proba, Pedro Sousa Loureiro (find out more), Ricardo Soares, Sigrid Salutee, Tiago Mascarenhas.

The method

"The aforementioned circle were realised during the MoveMovie’s residency. First two days of training were devoted to create a bound between participants and let them know their skills, possibilities and limits. After initial fascination, the con ictual situation between team members' started appearing. They were caused by di erent ideas, working styles and expectations. Gradually, the team moves into the norming stage. This is when people start to resolve their di erences and appreciate colleagues' strengths. During the last week, it was observed that the team reaches the performing stage. The hard work leaded, without friction, to the achievement of the team's goal.” - Karolina Ufa 

The booklet

This little book is accompanying the movies created by international young artists during our film residency "I move, you move, everybody move for movies", this booklet documents the working process and the experience of each movie team: their inspirations, references, experiments and progresses towards the production of a movie. 

Read or download it here.

The creations

Finally, why not just see the creations and enjoy them?

More than 100 horses

Inner Space

The Lullaby

Time is a Gambit

Reflection of a Generation or Silver Spoon Loneliness

Choir

Politico Manus

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Created by Nomadways

Move Movie has been co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union.

Visit project’s page on Nomadways website.

See all photos from Move Movie.

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#MoveMovie: “Politico Manus” portraits

Politics are having big impact on our daily lives, though, we are never much aware of what is actually happening around us, in our countries; in the neighboring countries; in Europe; in the World. 

We are more informed nowadays than ever in the whole history.

Though we are just immediately informed of what is happening actually on the spot, we aren’t having any information via Media: we are the responders of the messages sent from the HotSpots, or the creators of the Messages.   We can guess that we just have too much information: we are scrolling; scrolling… thousands of Headlines are appearing on the screens of our smart-phones; we are carrying with us Screens to be scrolled over, so that to be more informed. And in this crazy speed we are starting to listen, without hearing, we are starting scroll, we are starting to look at, without reading and skipping to analyse.

*The Art Project “Politico.Manus” was initiated to show that “we are informed as much as we can uncover with our hands”, and though there is much more information, it is not visible. “Politico.Manus” is the visualization of insufficient Media coverage of Political Problems today: on one side there is enormous Political Information on the Images, still very small part is visible and readable, the parts that are on the hands”. 13 articles covering current Political problems in varied languages are chosen, which tackl some political problems emphasizing terrorism and refugee issues, highlighting the war situation in some regions, and also touching political problems in some countries. The articles are handwritten, though taken from the Online Media. 13 captured hands are representing varied feelings, such as “fear”, ‘’safety”, “freedom”, and the characters were expressing the feelings with their hands; putting in also their own understandings, own views and emotions. As the final result we have “13 Messages” with hands and political articles, visualizing how poor we are informed nowadays, how urgent are the political problems, how we are living in the “third world war”.

Statement Everything started during the evening talks and very emotional discussions in the Artistic Residency in Bernay-en-Ponthieu, France. 20 young artists from different countries with varied History and political conditions discussing how worried they are and how much they feel the need to make a small change in our world, while there were terrorist attacks, rebellions and coups in some countries. So, We just could not skip the Politics when working with Arts. Then it went to the realization that we all are scrolling our newsfeeds, and getting a lot of information. Still when starting to analyze, we are not much aware of what actually happened, more- why happened, what will happen next. And then it came to the last phase: hands and handwriting: and there was the work started: searching for articles, working with various languages, writing them on paper, and capturing the hands as a very important part of our bodies. This is how we have got the project “Politico.Manus”.  

I want to express my Big Gratitude to the amazing people who supported this project to come to this point: …for hands: Aleksandra Miciak, Luis Viera, Miguel Stichini, Mónica Talina, Sigrid Salutee and Tiago Mascarenhas The Project is created with the support of Aleksandra Miciak, Anne Merlin and Tiago Mascarenhas.

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Created by: Sona Parsyan

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#MoveMovie: “Choir”

Created by Pedro Sousa Loureiro Music: Schubert - Serenade Camera: Tiago Mascarenhas Sound editing: Luis Vieira Performers: Anne Merlin, Henry Linnard, Kasia Łukasiewicz, Karolina Ufa, Katrin Kullo, Laura Gonçalo, Luis Vieira, Marie-Cecile merlin, Melanie Garland, Miguel Stichini, Mónica Talina, Monika Proba, Nicole, Ricardo Soares, Sigrid Salutee and Sona Parsyan. Camera: Aleksandra Mck

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Read more about Move Movie here.

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#MoveMovie: “Reflection of a Generation” or “Silver Spoon Loneliness”

It's time. It is time to stop, to reflect and to get in touch with our consciousness.

Nowadays, in this world where more and more people spend time self-contemplating on the conformism of their couch, REFLECTION OF A GENERATION OR SILVER SPOON LONELINESS intends to ask what the logic in terms of thinking that we leave as an example and as an inheritance to future generations. It questions the way we live and reflect today’s world and society.

If one considers the many many events and changes that one has been observing recently, it seems that we are moving increasingly towards the construction of individual bubbles instead of a collective one and ‘selfie’ generation did not come to help the process. The world cries and we, meanwhile, try to find the best angle for the 25th selfie of the day. The I overlaps increasingly to the world and individualism grows in an uncontrollably manner. We focus every day more on agglomerate and get some kind of external richness instead of trying preserve and take care of our natural inner wealth. What we have got becomes important than what we are and a multiplied sense of conformism produces only a inert body without movement. We are rich but cry we alone.

From the expression ‘born with a silver spoon in your mouth’, the only thing that remains is that single object, the spoon, which stands as testimony generation after generation. That same object in REFLECTION OF A GENERATION OR SILVER SPOON LONELINESS appears as a metaphor to the logic of thinking that we leave as heritage to those who will come after us.

Artistic Residency During these twenty days of creation in Bernay-en-Ponthieu, it was somehow amazing to see how twenty people of different nationalities, brought to this common place, different ways of thinking and creating. Although the whole process of creation has undergone huge changes, I believe the most important thing was the way the problems that happens to exist within the group were how we were able to take advantage of the potential of each one throughout the process. The generosity each one provided/showed for all proposed projects/working methods was undoubtedly another very important and positive aspect to this whole process of creation in group and the fact that we developed several projects, made me able to work with various groups/people in quite different ways. Having rurality as inspiration strongly fuelled one of the issues we wanted to work, contemplation and imminence.

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Created by:

Laura Gonçalo

Read more about the project Move Movie here.

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#MoveMovie: “The Lullaby”

FREUDIAN DREAM THEORY by Karolina Ufa 

Considered the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) revolutionises the study of dreams with his work The Interpretation Of Dreams. Freud begins to analyse dreams in order to understand aspects of personality as they relate to pathology. He believes that nothing person do occurs by chance; every action and thought is motivated by her/his unconscious at some level. In order to live in a civilized society, people have a tendency to hold back urges and repress impulses. 

However, these urges and impulses must be released in some way; they have a way of coming to the surface in disguised forms. One way these urges and impulses are released is through the dreams. Because the content of the unconscious may be extremely disturbing or harmful, Freud believes that the unconscious expresses itself in a symbolic language.

LOCATION by Lilit Stepanyan 

The making of this movie took place in Bernay-en-Ponthieu, a commune in the Somme department in Picardie in northern France. With a population of less than 250 people, this was a great place for our movie making to be sure not to disturb anyone or let anyone interrupt us. Two little houses in the quiet small village made for a perfect base for making this movie. 

This warm and welcoming village was so peaceful that we could perfectly concentrate on our movie making not being distracted by anything. The French traditional houses, huge fields of grain and forests were all used in the making of a movie, allowing us to explore this place inside out. While we explored every little corner of this place to find perfect places for the scenes we met the people of Bernay en Pentheu who were very friendly to us, always greeting smiling and interested in our work. Being away from massive human movements, cars and big city life allowed us to film where ever we wanted when ever we wanted. Thanks to this, the location of the making of this movie allowed us to be very flexible in planning our work.

TO SLEEP OR TO WATCH A FILM? by Karolina Ufa 

From the beginning cinematography evokes deep comparison to dreams. Cinematographers and cinemaphiles have found a lot of similarities between those concepts: cinemas are used to be called ‘dream palaces’, the moviemaking activity resembles a process that mind makes every time to produce a dream and Hollywood got its name as a ‘dream factory’. What is more, film and dream are about projection of moving images. In first case it is a silver screen, in the other a projection of images that takes place on the curtain of closed eyes.

In both cases unreal and fantastic images and memories creates sequences that challenge logic and reasonable thinking. They are changing in kaleidoscope-like motion – appearing and disappearing within seconds and spectators (sleeper and cinema viewer) are subjected to motionless activity of looking at them. ‘Dreaming’ images mutate and morph in ways that cannot be described by verbal language. No matter how hard poets try to catch the ephemeral imaginary of dreams and their symbolism, their efforts is meagre compared to film’s intrinsic similarity to dream. Film is one of the few mediums to depict the nature of human chimera. Cinematography constantly uses dream themes and techniques. Thanks to fluid photography, dissolve shots, creative editing, montages cinema makers are able to catch the ever transforming form of dreams. Dreams are not only showing progress in cinematographic craft (special effects domain) but also can become framework within the metanarrative can be created or the new story can be told. Inserting story into dream highlights its unrealistic and fantastic provenance. Dreams can soften the messages, can describe in artistic and non-standard way a character’s personality, motivation and give alternative plot solution.

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Created by:

Aleksandra Miciak 

Anne Merlin 

Henry Linnard 

Karolina Ufa 

Katrin Kullo 

Lilit Stepanyan 

Luis Vieira