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Open call for project facilitators: Empathy as Resistance

15 December 2016, John W. Fail

Pixelache announces a new project for 2017, Empathy as Resistance, which will explore how empathy can be employed as a tool for political and social change. The project will take the form of a series of activities, each with a different focus and facilitator, unfolding across 2017 with the goal of building a semi-structured working group that remains open for all to participate in.

We are taking proposals until 1 February 2017 for facilitators of this project. To apply, see the proposal form -- and please, spread the word!

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Project: Empathy as Resistance

Empathy as Resistance is a project which explores how empathy can be employed for constructive, direct political and social action. We are not interested in a particular political option as a reason for action (however it might have political implications at the end). On this basis we want to establish an open working group which will meet five times in 2017 for research-based programmes.

Each meeting of EaR will take a distinct, unique shape (possibly a workshop, lecture, action, collaborative creation or seminar, but ideally some mixture of all of these). While all activities will be...

Post: Empathy as Resistance - more information

10 January 2017 19:10, Agnieszka Pokrywka

We've had a few questions about what we intend with this year's Empathy as Resistance project, so we're writing this post in an attempt to clarify matters. Structure: Empathy as Resistance will meet 4 or 5 times, roughly every two months, throughout 2017. One meeting will definitely occur during the 2017 Pixelache Festival in September, and because of the general festival atmosphere this meeting will likely be larger and more visible than the others. So the schedule might be something like: March meeting May meeting July meeting (or maybe not, cause, summer) September meeting [Pixelche...

Post: Empathy as Resistance: Who we are & Pixelache festival 2017

03 January 2018 17:04, anastasia artemeva

Empathy as Resistance is a discussion group that met during 2017 to focus on themes that are common within our process-based projects. During Pixelache Festival 2017 we held a special edition meeting, in a format of discussions, workshops and a community meal, open to all. The aim was to reflect on the questions raised during the discussions this year, and view them within the context of our practices. Here’s who we are: Karolina Kucia (b. 1978 in Poland) graduated as Master of Arts in 2004 from Poznan Art Academy, and studied Performance Art and Theory Studies in the Theater Academy in...

Post: Empathy as Resistance: self & other & care & who

06 January 2018 14:29, anastasia artemeva

Empathy as Resistance is a discussion group that met during 2017 to focus on themes that are common within our process-based projects. During Pixelache Festival 2017 we held a special edition meeting, in a format of discussions, workshops and a community meal, open to all. The aim was to reflect on the questions raised during the discussions this year, and view them within the context of our practices. Here is a taster of our discussion. For our meetings we had been preparing questions that relate to the subjects of empathy as resistance. Some of these questions developed deeper, and some...

Open call: Empathy as Resistance facilitators

Overview In 2017, Pixelache will present Empathy as Resistance, an open working group that will meet throughout the year,every other month. Empathy as Resistance explores how empathy can be employed for constructive and direct political and social action. Picking up from the theme of the 2016 festival (Interfaces for Empathy), as well as the recent emphasis on this topic in the local and international culture community, EaR seeks to wield empathy like a weapon (as paradoxical as this may seem) for concrete effects on policy, institutional structures, and daily life. This project was...