Envisioning a Place - A Farm, A Dojo
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'Ways of Coming to Knowing and Regeneration: Improvisation and Experimentation in/and the Arts, Contemplative Practices, Nature Awareness and Regenerative Farming...a group, a place
After quite some years of artistic and activist work, various collaborations, research, and time to hopefully integrate and embody, I am now looking to gather/join forces and the like-minded, and establish an actual living/working base.
I hope that the description below will give you a context and a framework.
Also I feel that the pandemic was yet another hint towards a radical rethinking, and that we need more spaces to develop embodied understanding, tools, skills and mutual support for this time of societal and environmental emergency, where we can learn how to cope with uncertainty and grief, while comprehending what living in service of all beings might mean and imply.
I have found that nature and certain approaches in the arts are great teachers and facilitators in that respect, so are contemplative practices.
They offer pathways towards experiential and direct, living knowledge (systems) and understanding, more akin to indigenous wisdom, than to the worldview and ways of industrial civilization, and provide thus a valuable lens though which to examine and transcend a system that obviously is on the way to self-destruct.
In this time of crisis and adaptation I would think that such 'islands' and bridge building spaces are urgently needed.
The place would be open to develop an international network and exchange in the realms of improvisation and the arts, indigenous and contemplative cultures, earth restoration and regenerative farming methods.
I can see small conferences and gatherings, workshops and skill sharings, maybe also integrating facilities nearby.
I can see a dojo (a space for different practices), a small and eclectic library, maybe a dance and/or recording studio...
The project would be sustained through the network of friends and partners connected to it, through visitors/workshop participants and through the land itself.
Depending on the site, of course other and alternative possibilities can be envisioned.
Also there might already be a project, where an integration could be discussed.
Please feel free to get in touch and/or spread the word, also if there are any further questions or ideas.
So far I deliberately did not put a geographical frame.
Warmly,
Lars
contact (at) passiveactivism.net