PLANT Project
Performing Life Akademia Network [PLANT] is a 2-year transdisciplinary project, funded by Creative Europe Programme, that aims to encourage the development and experimentation of contextual artistic and curatorial practices around cross-performing arts, eco-thinking and everyday life. PLANT is a collaboration between three research and creation centres: CRL – Central Elétrica in Porto (PT) – project coordinator –, Isadora & Raymond Duncan Dance Research Center in Vyronas, Athens (GR) and Espai nyamnyam in Mieres, Girona (SP).
Through a mutual exchange of experiences, local concerns, methodologies and tools, the project will conceive and develop new sustainable artistic methodologies based on Raymond Duncan’s heritage, the Permaculture principles and Contextual Art Practices while advocating the notion of ‘commons’ in art as a key concept in addressing urgent social and environmental challenges.
Project’s official website: https://performinglifeakademianetwork.eu/
Official contact: info@performinglifeakademianetwork.eu.
International Partners: Duncan Dance and Research Center (GR), Associação Cultural Nyamnyam (ES)
PLANT is a cooperation project co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only. They do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
The concept of the PLANT project is based on contextual performing arts practices that use permaculture, preservation, heritage, collective learning and shared knowledge in order to address the global eco-social crises, designing a collective future that is more participatory, critical and sustainable. The work in proximity with the territories and their inhabitants, as well as the concern to connect artistic questions with common and everyday life, make contextual performing arts practises a field of great interest for the implementation of practices that share close proximity to the audience and the empowerment of communities.
PLANT wants to shape a methodology and articulate a toolbox to connect artistic practices with local communities and contexts while addressing the heritage of Raymond Duncan and his eco-communities, the Permaculture principles and contextual artistic practices for sustainable artistic creation and programming. Simultaneously, and in a practical and shared way, PLANT wants to reflect on the ways of working in the local territories in order to enhance the interest in dialogues between artistic creations and the particularities of local communities promoting cross-border replicable contextual artistic practices that can work as an instrument for more sustainable regional development, in line with European policies.
Common Space
Developed in co-creation with architect Roberto Cremascoli and in partnership with ESAD, ESPAÇO COMUM presents itself as a piece of urban furniture, multifunctional, modular, eco-sustainable. Reflecting on the encounter, sharing, the experience of public space and inspiring proximity curators constitutes the core of the proposal.
Being with others at the table – talking, listening, playing, eating, reading, drawing, writing… Being, Being With.
