laboratoire écologie et art pour une société en transition
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On Saturday 20 April, at Geneva’s EXPLORE DEMAIN festival, least will introduce its work through two art projects linked to food and its preparation.
Adrien Mesot will first guide us through an exercise in mindfulness and awareness as we pick wild edible herbs. Participants will learn to observe, smell, touch, and taste their immediate environment while sharing knowledge.
Laetitia Pascalin will then invite us to gather around a long table to embroider a tablecloth together, creating a space for weaving stories and community links while enjoying the fruits of our labour.
least is an association that supports artistic, scientific, ecological, social and participatory approaches to activate the collective consciousness and resilience of our “Earth system”: we believe that everything, starting with our practices, our jobs, our habits, and our entire daily life, needs to be reappraised and recreated.
least’s program accompanies this transition, offering tools for developing collective thought and action to change mindsets and the world. Rooted in Switzerland, but concerned with environmental interdependency with southern Europe, least activates partnerships to enable actual connections with territories, designing residencies and projects deeply entrenched in reality.
transdisciplinarity
least brings together scientists, artists, thinkers, and civil society to share their knowledge and know-how. least pools ideas, knowledge, skills and tools to anchor new positive strategies in the long term.
long-term projects
least disseminates an ecology of production that redefines the artist’s research- and territory-based profession in order to foster participation, assimilation and identification with the projects: a process that requires time and fluidity, different from usual production models.
co-creation
least encourages a form of art without an audience, preferring the notion of a “participating community.” Grassroots organisations, young people, local actors and citizens take part in creative processes that focus on environmental and social issues.
learning
least enables the creation of a common and circular model of knowledge, stimulating peer-to-peer exchanges and transgenerational artistic mentoring through practice by offering residency grants to young local artists.
projects
Vivre le Rhône
Common Dreams Panarea: Flotation School
Verger de Rue
UPCOMING
Peau Pierre
UPCOMING
A queer approach to ecological education to remind us that the destiny of the body and the Earth are intimately linked.
UPCOMING
Arpentage
UPCOMING
A situated research project by Collectif Facteur exploring depopulation, collective memory and the landscape of the Valais.
UPCOMING