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PROJECT INTRODUCTION
We are excited to propose a training program designed for artists, performers, and socio-cultural practitioners focused on
how to approach and work in places other than those where we live.
We would like to invite you to join us on the island of Amorgos, in the middle of the Aegean sea. Known as Nikos Gatsosโ utopia,
who wrote the homonymous long poem but never visited the place. Here we will explore through practice, presence and patience
what does it mean to work with a place, how to engage and entangle in the lives of those which we encounter when we are not from there. We like to think that we donโt practice in the world, rather that the world is our practice. Yet, how does one do this without subtly consuming, marginalising, exploiting or privileging?
What if we cannot save the world through art and cultural practices, but rather contribute to the possibility of entangling in ways that create the world? ย We all want to be good and take care- good artists, good residents, good tourists, good guests and good visitors but what if it is not about being good or taking care, but about being present and creating โwithโ versus creating โforโ? We will work on this question and practise presence borrowing from modalities of geo-tourism, while creating awareness of the traces we leave behind and
the ones we take with us.