9 September 2023 to 17 September 2023
Marais Wiels
School of Nomadic Urbanism

Call for participation: The collective Stalker organises its School of Nomadic Urbanism at the Marais Wiels.

The Italian collective Stalker (Giulia Fiocca & Lorenzo Romito) is inviting artists, residents, and activists to join its School of Nomadic Urbanism from 9 to 17 September to delve into the artistic, scientific, and eco-activist issues at stake in the Wiels Marsh and its Italian twin, Lake Bullicante.
These ecosystems emerged spontaneously from the industrial remnants of the Wielemans brewery in Brussels and the SNIA artificial silk factory in Rome.

The School is an opportunity to build Circumstance #8: from the Alliance to the Federation- Alliance ritual between insurgent lakes: Lago Bullicante (Rome) and Marais Wiels (Brussels), an artistic, collective, and ritual action that will celebrate the 1st anniversary of the alliance between the ASBL Marais Wiels Moeras (BE) and the Forum Territoriale Parco delle Energie (IT). A convergence of initiatives that have been fighting for years to promote and preserve the unprecedented ecological, social, and poetic potential of resurgent urban ecosystems.

The School of Nomadic Urbanism is a co-learning pathway to learn about social creativity and collective action.
On the programme: listening to places and the people living in them, the unexpected, and interactions with the land.
Together, we'll be sharing our strategies and experiences to think about the emergence and sustainability of resurgent urban ecosystems.

The School is convivial, playful and open to all without distinction.

Come and meet the School during different public events!
For the programme details, scroll down.

Stalker

Stalker is a Rome-based collective founded in 1995. Their research and actions on and in the landscape pay particular attention to the margins of the city, forgotten urban spaces, abandoned areas and territories in transition, which they call Current Territories.

Stalker's practice consists of exploring space, listening, connecting and creatively interacting with the environment, its inhabitants and their 'memory archives'. These processes aim to generate social and environmental relationships that are self-organising and evolve over time. Stalker's practice exists through knowledge sharing and collaborative projects, aimed at raising communities' awareness of their territories and cultural environments.


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Programme

Saturday 9th September
18.00: Opening lecture (EN)

What contribution can the arts make to the creation of a social conscience? How can new practices help nature to reclaim its rights on a planet destroyed by human exploitation? Stalker is working on this in Rome.

Their presentation will take the form of an Assembly, open to the public, invited to share its stories of local environmental struggles, its ideas and its knowledge of the Brussels environment. This Assembly will be a way of presenting the Nomadic School of Urbanism and beginning the development of Circumstance #8: from the Alliance to the Federation- Alliance ritual between insurgent lakes: Lago Bullicante (Rome) and Marais Wiels (Bxl), which will take place on Sunday 17th September.
A proposal by Stalker (IT) (Giulia Fiocca, Lorenzo Romito).

Free participation, open to all
@ La Bellone

Sunday 10th September
11:00-17:00: Exploratory walk to Marais Wiels
Free participation, open to all
RV @ La Bellone
Bring your pic-nic and some water

Monday 11th September
19:00 (EN)
Encounter with Lieven de Cauter and his book Ending the Anthropocene: Essays on Activism in the Age of Collapse@ Librairie Par Chemins
@ Librairie Par Chemins

In this book, Lieven de Cauter investigates the idea that if we want to avoid collapse, we have to end the Anthropocene – the geological era of the gigantic, devastating impact of our species on planet Earth. It might even be, he argues, that the collapse of our current, growth-maximizing system is the only hope for the biosphere.

Wednesday 13th September
19:00 (FR)
Encounter with Charlotte Cosson and her book Férale
@ Librairie Par Chemins

Can art give us a better view of the life that teems in our daily lives? To build a bridge between art and ecology, Charlotte Cosson set out in search of works of art that are turned towards the earth and the wild world: hens that are works of art, mushrooms that form temples, paintings that save forests, a collective that dances for plants... "Férale" presents an art that composes with flora and fauna and uproots the mechanisms of "masters and dominators" to replace them with gestures of humility towards those without whom breathing would be impossible. Conceived from a place dedicated to permaculture, this essay responds to concrete issues with works that stem from this new sensibility of love for the living.

Sunday 17th September
11.00-14.00: Circumstance #8: from the Alliance to the Federation- Alliance ritual between insurgent lakes: Lago Bullicante (Rome) and Marais Wiels (Brussels)

Collective Action
Celebrating the first anniversary of the alliance between ASBL Marais Wiels Moeras (BE) and the Forum Territoriale Parco delle Energie (IT)
Free access, open to all
@ Marais Wiels

Credits

This event is organised by the Cifas in the context of the festival Feral 2023

Images: Stalker

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