Date - 23rd - 25th August 2024

Venue
Fanefjord Fælled

Hårbøllevej 52A

4792 Askeby.

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As part of a larger process of commoning a 1,3 hectare field between Hosting Lands and the artists collective PDAS, we invite to a series of public workshops with a focus on strategies for creating and maintaining just communities and commons.

Land, a fundamental resource for human existence, often shapes our social, economic and ecological systems. Regulations on land access, and land ownership, reveals deep-seated issues influenced by immigration, colonialism, and capitalism. These historical and systemic forces create disparities that create and sustain unequal distribution of resources on global, and local, scales. During this workshop, we will explore the friction between land access and land ownership and discuss models of commoning an equitable resource redistribution.

In Hosting Lands, we wish to open a conversation about resource sharing within both local and translocal contexts. Our questions are guided by experiences, methods and protocols of redistribution, alternative economies and networks based on trust and coalition-building. We believe that to achieve meaningful change, it is essential to push back against economic models of colonial and racial capitalism and their manufactured scarcity. We long to take matters into our own hands; practice strategic hacking of institutional resources, and institute alternative economies of solidarity with allies, comrades and friends. .

We therefore invite you to a weekend-long focused workshop around questions of redistributive justice and commoning practices. We will together consider possibilities for sketching strategies of resource-redistribution from within the intersections between contemporary art practice, decolonial and ecological activism.

The workshop will focus on learning from, and with, each other’s practices and experiences to suggest models for local and translocal solidarity economies between Denmark and elsewhere. We will also acknowledge and work with frictions related to power structures within - and unequal access to - the commons. We will depart from examples and inspiration brought to us by artists, activists and community organizers, who will contribute to the conversation both digitally and in person. Our digital presentations will be livestreamed on this website.

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Friday, 23. August 2024

15.00: Welcome and introduction by Hosting Lands

16.00-17.00: Yazan Khalili: Sharing resources and communal value system
Digital lecture followed with a Q&A session

Yazan Khalili is guided by questions on how to utilise blockchain technology within social and communal networks, rethinking the debt as a communal resource. Showing dayra as a possibility of collective economy based on sharing resources and creating communal value system.

Yazan Khalili, lives and works in and out of Palestine. Artist and Architect, currently a PhD candidate within Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis. co-founder of Radio Alhara and The Question of Funding.

17.00-19.00: Hosting Lands workshop: Mapping our collective resources, communal cooking and dinner facilitated by PDAS

20.00-??: Friday Bar by PDAS

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Saturday, 24 August 2024

10.00-11.30: Morning swim

10.00-11.00 Yin Aiwen: The Ontology of Community
Lecture followed by a Q&A session

Yin Aiwen will speak about the normative journey of a self-organized intentional community through the lens of "the ontology of community". The lecture is based on her collaborative research "Alchemy of Commons" with Yiren Zhao, a long-term inquiry on the limits of attention-driven art economy and speculation on an alternative economic model for socially-engaged art. "The ontology of community" is one of the major research outcomes, which shows 12 aspects of a community that needs constant care and maintenance.

Yin Aiwen is a designer, theorist, strategist and project developer, who use writing, system design, time-based art, institutional practice and community building to examine the social impact of planetary communication technologies. She advocates relationship-centered design as a strategy to redesign, re-engineer and reimagine the relationship between technology and society.

11.30-12.30: Lunch (bring your own) and hang-out

12.30-16.00: Sandi Hilal (DAAR) and Reyhaneh Mirjahani: Commons, Belonging, and Hospitality
Workshop

This workshop will center on the "Summer House" project, an initiative located in the Stockholm archipelago, exploring notions such as commons, belonging, and hospitality—not just as shared physical spaces and practices, but as grounds where diverse narratives can coexist. Sandi and Reyhaneh will lead this exploration by sharing their personal experiences and relationships with the Summer House project, each approaching it with different needs and a sense of urgency.
Through their narratives, they will shed light on the complexities and possibilities of creating commons while also addressing concepts of hospitality and integration within the Scandinavian context. The workshop will not only involve sharing their narratives but also discussing the challenges and doubts they have encountered along the way, using these experiences as material for group discussion.

Sandi Hilal is an architect, artist, and educator. She co-founded DAAR (Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency) with Alessandro Petti in Beit Sahour, Palestine. Their work, situated at the intersection of architecture, art, pedagogy, and politics, challenges dominant collective narratives and seeks to redefine concepts to shape active, collective, and common spaces. Over the last two decades, they have developed a series of research projects that are both theoretically ambitious and practically engaged in the struggle for justice and equality.

Reyhaneh Mirjahani is an artist and artistic researcher with a curatorial practice. Her work centers around critically examining the concepts of individual and collective agency in socio-political participation, while also exploring the role of ethics in shaping this discourse. She strives to employ collaborative and intersectional methodologies, drawing from artistic practice and sociology to create a discursive space that facilitates exploration and discussion of contemporary issues in all their intricacies.

16.00-19.00: Communal dinner facilitated by PDAS (with the option of seeing the Forest Stages performance in stead)

Our good friends at Institute for Interconnected Realities will be performing their beautiful Forest Stages piece on both Saturday and sunday. The performance is located only a few kilometers from the Hosting Lands workshop, and we will schedule around the performance so that workshop guests can take part in both. You can buy tickets here.

19.00-21.00: The Post-Cultural Body: What is an open source theater production?
Performance and Workshop

It all begins with a group of spect-actors casually sharing a recipe for home made cola. Then a conversation unfolds. What is an open source theatre production? Join the conversation with your own voice and merge your perspectives with the ones of spect-actors coming before and after you. In “What is an open source theatre production?” the spect-actor from Theatre of the Oppressed meets open source coding practices. Together we will let the question traverse different angles and contexts.

The Post-Cultural Body is currently in process with its first theatre production: Græder ved havet البكاء على حافة البحر – a work in progress will be shown at theatrebuilding.com and Økocity 2.0 (Tårnby Park Studio) from 2.-13. September 2024. The work can be followed on Instagram and Console.

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Sunday, 25. August 2024

10.00-11.30: Nanna Elvin Hansen and Barly Tishbanda: Staying with the Struggle* - of claiming the right to have rights and of redistributing resources
Workshop
Artists Barly Tshibanda and Nanna Elvin Hansen will present their work, both artistically and as activists, against the European and Danish Border Regime through the community radio the Bridge Radio and the self-published book Staying with the Struggle* - looking for Decolonial Strategies for Working Together Across Privileges.After the presentation, they will engage in a reflection and writing workshop, collectively thinking and making notes for a new chapter for the publication Staying with the Struggle* on questions of redistribution of resources and strategies for hacking art institutions.

Nanna Elvin Hansen moves in the murk between art and activism. Building audio and film projects via local, collaborative processes, her works unveil structural violence that impacts on climate collapse, multi-species ecologies and displacement.

Barly Tshibanda was born and raised in Kinshasa, Congo. His practice is centered around decolonization processes and anti-border regime strategies, between Denmark and Congo. Amongst others he is a member of Bridge Radio from Copenhagen and La Folie dance crew from Kinshasa.

11.30-12.30: Gillian Goddard LEARNING ABOUT POWER - Lessons from the Land
Digital Lecture followed with a Q&A

Learning about Power - Lessons from the Land After many years of a formal, colonial education, I exited with a severely limited understanding of power, feedback loops and financial systems despite succeeding by academic standards. To find meaningful solutions, I turned to the forests of my native island, Trinidad, for knowledge and guidance. They ask what reciprocal conversation can be had with the living community and how do those conversations and insights help us to solve complex problems? How does the sophistication of the natural world provide insight and direction for commercial enterprise that can allow us to earn money, redistribute resources while allowing for enhanced biodiversity and resilience?

Gillian Goddard, a seasoned systems thinker, community organizer, and chocolate maker, integrates food and agriculture to spark change. With decades of indigenous-style gardening and farming behind her, she founded the Alliance of Rural Communities (ARC) in Trinidad and Tobago in 2014. Her work addresses power dynamics, decolonization, and emancipation through food and community narratives. Recognized with the “Soul of Rurality” award by IICA in 2022, she also teaches at several academic institutions and is on the steering committee of Collective Diaspora, a global coop of Black cooperatives.

12.30-13.30: Lunch (bring your own), collective digestion and future plotting

14.00: Forest Stages by Institute for Interconnected Realities
Our good friends at Institute for Interconnected Realities will be performing their beautiful Forest Stages piece on both Saturday and sunday. The performance is located only a few kilometers from the Hosting Lands workshop, and we will schedule around the performance so that workshop guests can take part in both. You can buy tickets here.

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Practical Information

Accessibility and Food

Unfortunately, the rural site PDAS is not wheelchair accessible. Please reach out to deaantonsen@gmail.com to open a dialogue around other accessibility needs.

We will offer coffee, tea and snacks during both days - and serve modest vegetarian dinners on Friday and Saturday evenings. We ask you to arrange lunch yourselves.

Accommodation

We can offer a limited number of spots in large tents with space for 5 people (collective sleeping). Everybody is welcome to bring their own tents to camp at the field. Modest camping facilities such as compost toilets and kitchen are available.

Sign up: Please sign up by writing your information in this excel sheet: here

If you come by car and have space for people to drive along, we ask you to note this too, so that you can reach each other. We ask you to self-organize co-driving.

Ticket Fee

We kindly ask you to donate as much as you can, and a minimum of 10EUR per workshop day. All ticket fees will go to our friend and collaborator Ayowb A. Al Ladaa and his work with a community farm in Al Shujaiyya neighborhood in Northern Gaza. With his family he runs a small vegetable and fruit farm, one of the two functioning farms in Northern Gaza. While the farm has often been under attack, and the family been displaced numerous time, the farm is growing and is currently distributing food to 70 families in the neighborhood. You can pay through here at the Mobile Pay 5265SN or directly to his Paypal here

The event is generously supported by Bikuben Foundation and The Danish Arts Foundation.