Maria Lucia Cruz Correia:
Common Dreams Flotation School
Studio maakleerplek
Periode: 15.03—15.05.2022
Correia’s cross-sectoral and hybrid practice speaks to her deep engagement with the ecological crises and climate emergency. She reacts to the environmental conflicts of our times by bringing audiences and communities into participatory laboratories that connect the artistic with the voices of scientists, activists and lawyers in long term investigation processes.
This residency is part of the project ‘EXPAND(ed) and is supported by the Flemish Government.
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Maria Lucia Cruz Correia:
Common Dreams Flotation School
What kind of schools do we need as a gesture of care for the planetary? How can we form artistic and scientific alliances in creating learning spaces? How learning spaces, and ecopedagogies can help us shift our unsustainable present? Do we need other ways of reciprocity, support and also pedagogical structures?
During the period of residency in maakleerplek, Maria Lucia Cruz Correia is designing a prototype – a package tool kit – to archive the four schools which happened between 2016 and 2022 in four different cities. The schools are transdisciplinary exchange in the format of workshops, lectures, numerous discussions and embodied experiences as singing, eating, snorkeling, listening, contemplating, reading tarot, activating, rebelling and restoring. But also a moment to reconnect, restore hare emotions, resilience and active responses with the natural habitats.
Common Dreams:flotation school
Common Dreams:flotation school is a mobile prototype for a survival climate school, that can travel and adapt to other cities in collaborative alliances with local universities, art institutions and sustainable organizations.
- Structure: the school is designed around a collective process in accordance to the four elements (air-water-earth-fire), as an attempt to rethink our notions of survival in relation to geopolitical earthly resources.
- Fields: the approach is a transdiciplinare collaborative process in dialogue with art students and/or with experts from the fields of political ecology, sustainability, economy, agriculture, holism, activism, science and architecture.
- Method: as a methodology, we propose a critical reflection on what “ pedagogy in arts” means today and can do for us, and how this approach can influence the climate political emergency.
The main topics are : ecopedagoy- ecology-shelter- sustainability-social-economy- resources- cosmologies. - Outcome: every edition of the school has different format depending on the location and collaboration, it can take be in the format of a floating raft on the lake, or a tend in the forest, or it simply an interventions in public space or lecture and debates.
