On 15–19 Sept 2020, we warmly welcome you to join Lapsody: Paramatter. The 8th International Live Art and Performance festival moves through the Helsinki landscapes and islands. The festival finishes when we arrive and starts when we leave. A festival on a boat: movement as a position. But, where is the body?

In collaboration with Live Art and Performance Studies (LAPS) MA programme in Uniarts Helsinki, PUBLICS hosts two events on Friday and Saturday.

The already Not-Yet – Becoming Collective, with Ima Iduozee, Jemina Lindholm, Iida Nissinen, Joy Mariama Smith, Vishnu Vardhani, Jeanne van Heeswijk, is a tentative exploration on ‘commitment’ and how to share our realities in times of breakdown. How can we create different relational bonds to approach the notion of collectives not as a pre-existing social structure but as a learning process actively becoming in context? This is to start developing and enabling a series of participatory test sites and public scenarios to enact and imagine how we live together and define collective futures.

This workshop on Friday 18 Sept (12–2pm) reguires pre-registration and is held in English.

On Saturday 19 Sept (2–6pm) Another Academy – Before and After the Educational Turn presents six 10-minute provocations from Gavin Butt (University of Northumbria), Jeanne van Heeswijk & Joy Mariama Smith, Łukasz Jastrubczak (The Art Academy of Szczecin, Poland), Gudskul (Jakarta), Anders Carlsson & Aune Kallinen (Uniarts, Helsinki) and LAPS MA students.

Many radical initiatives have addressed the twin subjects of art and education in recent decades, often posed as alternative modes of learning to those present within the neoliberal academy. The Another Academy seeks to bring together international artists, art teachers, professors and students to share local experiences and strategies to assess possible forms of resistance to commodified forms of contemporary education.

The Another Academy take place in ‘translocal’ contexts, both to remember and reimagine “the groves of academe” as a space of exchange. What kind of strategies, practices, forms of revolt or methods you would like to share for common discussion?

Please register here to join us at PUBLICS or online via Zoom.

This event is being held as part of the Open Up, a project that has been co-funded by the European Commission under the Creative Europe Programme.