ENCOUNTERS FOR SOCIAL DREAMING
Flux Laboratory Athens
Flux Laboratory Athens invites you to participate in the sessions of Social Dreaming hosted by the dancer and performer Aris Papadopoulos. The encounters will take place at Flux Laboratory Athens on Monday 22, Tuesday 23 and Wednesday 24 November 2021, 5 pm – 7pm with free admission.
Social Dreaming, developed by social scientist Gordon Lawrence, is a way of working with dreams where the focus is on the dream and not the dreamer, where dreams are shared amongst people who come together solely for this purpose. The objective is not to analyze or interpret the shared dreams that come to the surface, but to create a matrix of connections, parallel narrations, free associations, personal references as well as references related to art, creation or whichever subject arises within the group through the experience of each participant.
The need to host the sessions of Social Dreaming emerged through the transdisciplinary project Reforesting, which was supported by Flux Laboratory Athens in 2021. Social Dreaming was used by the project team as a creative, connection tool. The participants practiced Social Dreaming in Kalentzi village, along with people outside the team. Their purpose was to deepen the artistic and creative relations between them and to create a grid of thoughts and associations with regards to the concerns that the artistic group had set from the very beginning.
Admission free of charge.
Maximum number of participants: 15 persons
The sessions will be in Greek. Their duration will be 45’. At the end of each session, participants may stay in the space for discussion.
To reserve a seat, please contact: athens@fluxlaboratory.com
Important note: For safety reasons, the audience must provide upon entry (a) a vaccination certificate or (b) a recovery certificate from Covid-19 (valid for up to six months) along with a negative self-test.
ABOUT ARIS PAPADOPOLOUS
Aris Papadopoulos is a dancer, maker and performer based in Αthens. He studied at the School of Architecture Αthens (NTUA, 2009) and the National School of Dance, Αthens (2012) and has since been active in the fields of dance and performing arts in Greece and abroad, alternating between the roles of dancer, devising-performer in collaboratively created work as well as maker of his own work.
In search of a personal performative and representational vocabulary, Aris has been experimenting with the concepts of landscape and site-specific as creative fields of design, action and composition, and transcribes this material into kinetic and visual experimentation. His current personal interest and artistic research explore the multitude of visual and physical representations of everyday encounters with the urban landscape, the designing of processes and concept-writing, interdisciplinary approaches in the urban landscape as a field of potentiality, and the reciprocal scheme of embodying landscape vs shaping an experience.