TREE THOUGHTS: Strategies of ARTIVISM and PERMACULTURE, a taster.

Furtherfield at SPACE MediaLab

The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination presents: TREE THOUGHTS: Strategies of ARTIVISM and PERMACULTURE, a taster.

Monday 12 Dec 2011
18:00 - 21:00
*** FREE ***

This workshop is a taster to methodologies that merge ecological design models of Permaculture with forms of creative resistance. Permaculture mimics the patterns of living systems and applies them to human designs, these whole system thinking tools will be applied to strategies for developing creative actions. The workshop is suitable for artists and activists of all sorts and with any kind of experience and aims to give a feel of how it might be to "think like a forest"

TREE THOUGHT is part of the strategy workshops leading up to Moving Forest a 12 hour, five act, visual, sonic, digital, electronic and urban performance collectively realized by AKA the Castle, a temporal performance troupe bringing together visual artists, writers, soundists, silk threaders, codedecoders, macromikro, boombox mass, mobile agents, wifi fielders and urbanites. 12 hours of sonic, coded action map an imaginary Castle and camouflage forest revolt onto a given modern day metropolis.

The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination
Infamous for fermenting mass disobedience on bicycles during the Copenhagen climate summit, throwing snowballs at bankers, touring the UK recruiting a rebel clown army and covering the Tate in unwanted molasses to get them to drop BP funding, The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination (Lab of ii) exists somewhere between art and activism, protest and poetics. www.labofii.net