[resource-net] OPEN CALL_Summer School "Go and stop progress" by Chto Delat

[Elena Veljanovska]

Dear all,


I am happy to share the OPEN CALL for the Summer School initiated by Chto
Delat.

Maybe someone in your circles would be interested?


Feel free to share or ask for more info!


Cheers,


E.


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*“Go and stop progress!”*



Dates: 07.08.-17.08.2018 | 10am – 6pm

Public performance: 17.08.2018 | 7 pm

Location: Vierte Welt, Berlin, Germany

Initiated by the collective Chto Delat in partnership with Vierte Welt,
Berlin

Deadline: 01 July 2018



The course is based on the on-going experiment in performative pedagogy by
the collective Chto Delat whose members will be full-time present and
moderating all the school sessions.



Discursive program: Alessandra Pomarico (Free Home University), Baruch
Gottlieb and Dmitry Kleiner (Telekommunisten), Oxana Timofeeva, Dmitry
Vilensky, Ana Vujanovic and other guests.

Performance mentors: Nina Gasteva, Tsaplya Olga Egorova.

Set-workshops: Nikolay Oleynikov



*Short description:*

“Go and Stop Progress!” – based on the quote attributed to Kazimir
Malevich, the *Summer school*, and the following *Public performance* would
test different ideas and practices, which question the issues of
progress/acceleration and counter-modernity. Based on the idea that today
we face two different approaches to the potentiality of liberation – the
classical Marxist link between emancipation and linear technical progress –
this positive line is actively promoted in the work of “left
accelerationists” or in the speculations on the “communism of the capital”.
There is a lot of useful critique in this direction, but we have a growing
feeling that there is not much time left until the capital *digs its own
grave*. And it seems like this *grave* might turn out to be as much a
gloomy dystopia as a flower bed of bright new life.



The other tendency is the one that questions the whole idea of western
modernist progress and is focused on the vernacular knowledge and
cosmogony. Very often these ideas are characterized as idealistic and
uncritical, and even traditional. But these ideas could as well be used as
a continuation to the most radical European way of negative thought, where
progress is seen as barbaric in the way its destruction and exploitation of
resources and human lives are based on genocide and ecocide.

Therefore, today, when the rise of conservative thinking and attacks
dominate the society, we find it as pressing as ever to examine the ways in
which we could imagine and make possible the values of emancipation and
non-alienated ways of life. The school will additionally focus on the ideas
of international Zapatista movement, as a viable example of a certain
historical composition between the anti-capitalist struggle and the
vernacular way of life and knowledge. The confrontation of two different
positions will be rehearsed and staged in a form of Learning Play –
developing the tradition of formulating and taking positions in front of
engaged audiences by Bertolt Brecht.



As part of the Summer School, the participants will have the chance to
reflect ideas with the lecturers and to elaborate the knowledge on most
urgent issues of the current debate on emancipation and art. Additionally,
they will have the chance to develop performance skills inside a temporary
collective, get to know the unique devices of contemporary dance practice
and to practice and develop the method of learning play.



We welcome applications from artists, performers, activists, cultural
workers, philosophers and generally open-minded people who share the
urgencies raised in the concept of the school. The collective will issue
stipends to 5 participants. The participation number is limited to 25
participants.



*More info about the Summer School on the following link:*

https://chtodelat.org/b5-announcements/a-7/open-call-participants-summer-school-learning-play-go-stop-progress/




*To take part in the Summer School please apply on the following link:*

*https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1uP0KftYxcavGkx4IfB9rlLT3kReI5sCjbraY8eqKiQc/edit
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1uP0KftYxcavGkx4IfB9rlLT3kReI5sCjbraY8eqKiQc/edit>*



*CONTACT PERSONS*



*Dmitry Vilensky, *chto.delat.collective at gmail.com

*Elena Veljanovska, *chto.delat.collective at gmail.com, +49.157.77.216.916.